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South Korean film icon Choi Eun-hee dies at 92

ChoiEun-hee,anSouthKoreaniconicmoviestarofthe'60sand'70s,diedasaresultofachronicdiseaseatage92onMonday,herfamilyhavesaid."Mymotherpassedawaywhenshewenttohospita

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Lotte chairman faces a suspended 20-month prison sentence

ASeoulcourtsentencedLotteGroupchairmanShinDong-binto20monthsinprison,withatwo-yearsuspension,onFridayforcorruptionandbreachoftrust.ShinKyuk-ho,ShinDong-bin'sfat

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Japan panda fans get latest fix of cute with new footage

Japan's panda-obsessed public got their latest fix of cute Tuesday as a Tokyo zoo released footage of its 20-day-old helpless cub, who has ballooned in size since its birth last month.

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'It's a girl!': Tokyo zoo announces baby panda's sex

AbabypandarecentlyborninJapanisagirl,aTokyozoosaidFriday,addingthatthelittlecubappearedtobeingoodhealth.Tokyo'sUenoZoocelebratedthefirstbirthofababypandainfivey

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Giant panda Shin Shin gives birth to first cub in 5 years at Tokyo zoo

A Japanese zoo celebrated the first birth of a baby panda in five years Monday, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand.

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Giant panda Shin Shin gives birth to first cub in 5 years at Tokyo zoo

AJapanesezoocelebratedthefirstbirthofababypandainfiveyearsMonday,withthetinycubsmallenoughtofitinthepalmofahumanhand.Eleven-year-oldmumShinShingavebirthjustbefo

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S. Korean football coach looks back at U-20 World Cup exit

ShinTae-yong,whocoachedSouthKoreaattheFIFAU-20WorldCup,doesn'tdrinkcoffeethesedaysbecausehejustcan'tsleepwellevenwithoutcaffeine.SouthKoreawereeliminatedinthero

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Panda at Tokyo zoo shows signs of pregnancy

OfficialsatTokyo'sUenoZoosaytheirgiantpandaShinShinhasbeenshowingwhatmaybesignsofpregnancy.OnThursdaytheyannouncedthepandawaseatingfewerbambooshootswhilealsosle

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Giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo zoo shows signs of pregnancy

Tokyo'sUenoZoo's11-year-oldgiantpandaShinShinisshowingsignsofbeingpregnant,includingincreaseddozingandreducedappetite.IfShinShinisreallypregnantsheislikelytogiv

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South Korea prosecutors indict Lotte chairman, 21 others

​The announcement marks the end of an investigation during which billion-dollar deals involving Lotte collapsed

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S.Korean Lotte Group's family member summoned on bribery scandal

One of family members of Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerates, was summoned on Friday by prosecutors for questioning on charges of taking bribes from a local cosmetics company seeking to shelf space in the group's duty-free shops.

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What lessons S.Korea learn from MERS outbreak

​A 68-year-old South Korean man visited a small clinic in his hometown Asan, south of capital Seoul, as he coughed and had fever. Doctors might have diagnosed him with a simple flu or pneumonia, but he was referred to a bigger hospital to seek better medical services, then he went to Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, one of the country's biggest hospitals in which he was confirmed to have been the index case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and dozens more were infected later.

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Israel arrests 14 suspects of botched bomb attack

The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) has arrested 14 suspects for possible involvement in orchestrating and carrying out a bombing attack on a bus south of Tel Aviv two weeks ago, an Israeli court announced Thursday.