The United Nations said on Wednesday it was looking into donations made by a foundation whose CEO was arrested for her role in a wide-ranging bribery scheme also involving former General Assembly president John Ashe.
A woman in South Korea, having come from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) four years ago, has wanted back since she got here to her "fatherland." That has been banned by the South Korean government, which doesn't send "defectors" back under the current law.
The Silk Road is an example of South-South cooperation, Adam Rogers, the assistant director of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
South Korea and the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will exchange letters to confirm whether applicants for a reunion of families separated by the 1950- 53 Korean War are still alive about two weeks ahead of the agreed event, Seoul's unification ministry said Monday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said that "South Sudan stands at a crossroads," and called on all parties to demonstrate a genuine commitment to the peace agreement signed last month, including immediately halting military operations and forming the transitional government of national unity.
South Korea should respond to the expected interest rate hike in the United States by devaluing its currency rather than cutting its policy rate further, a South Korean economic expert said Monday.
The Philippines and South Korea signed Monday a memorandum of agreement on the protection of classified military information.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continued their dialogue early Tuesday as talks for the reunion of Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War lasted for more than 14 hours.
The two sides on the Korean Peninsula still put their militaries on the highest alert as inter-Korean crisis talks entered the third day Monday.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have reached an agreement after an emergency contact in the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul's presidential office said on Tuesday.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed Tuesday to defuse the heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Seoul's top presidential security advisor said after a total of 43 hours of marathon talks with his DPRK counterpart in the truce village of Panmunjom.
Almost 70 percent of submarines of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been undetected Sunday, with the second round of high-level contact being under way in the truce village of Panmunjom, local media reported citing a South Korean Defense Ministry official as saying.
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's frontline combined forces to enter a state of war from 5 p.m. (0830 GMT) Friday, a day after the two Koreas accused each other of shelling the borders.
Central military commission of DPRK's ruling Workers' Party of Korea convened an emergency enlarged meeting Thursday evening after South Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at the country, which Seoul said had earlier launched shells toward the south side in the western border, the state media KCNA reported
South Africa is expected to achieve a 2 percent growth in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year, the World Bank said on Monday.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have agreed to a wage hike issue for the DPRK workers employed by South Korean companies running factories in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday citing industry sources.
Visitors from South Korea to Vietnam after Aug. 15 will be exempted from MERS-CoV health declaration, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
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