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Posco scraps $5.3b steel plant in Karnataka
Bengaluru: In a major setback to the state government Posco – a subsidiary of South Korean steel giant, the Pohang Steel Company Limited – on Tuesday decided to scrap its proposed 6 MTPA (million ton
For two days, North Korea's best-kept secret
When South Korean President Lee Myung-bak left on a state visit for Japan last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been dead for about four hours, indicating that neither Seoul nor Tokyo - or Wa
Rescuers call off search for missing crew
The search for 17 missing crewmen from a South Korean trawler that sank without warning off Antarctica was called off on Tuesday, rescuers said, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 22.
N. Korea keeps world guessing
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30: With North Korea reeling from economic and succession crises, American and South Korean officials early this year secretly began gaming out what would happen if the North, led by
Japan says, NKorean shelling unforgivable
London, Nov. 23: Japan’s top government spokesman said that North Korea’s shelling of a South Korean island on Monday was “unforgiveable”. The chief Cabinet secretary, Mr Yoshito Sengoku, told a news
Somali pirates seize S Korean fishing boat
Seoul: A South Korean fishing boat has been seized by Somali pirates off the coast of Kenya and is being held in Somalia, a report said today.
The 241-ton vessel, which was carrying two South Koreans
