A member of a separated family leaves a message expressing longing for loved ones during a cultural event at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, Sept. 27, 2023, marking the first Separated Families Day. Two relatives from a family separated by the 1950-53 Korean War met for the first time in a third country in September, marking…
UNRWA’s West Bank director, Roland Friedrich, said the scenes in Hebron carry “alarming echoes” of the mass displacement in the northern occupied West Bank in early 2025, when Israeli military operations emptied the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps. More than 34,000 Palestinian refugees from the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps remain displaced,…
Hanwha Philly Shipyard / Courtesy of Hanwha Group Hanwha Group has won its first contract to build a warship for the United States Navy after its acquisition of Philadelphia-based Philly Shipyard in December 2024, marking a tangible step forward in the Korea-U.S. shipbuilding cooperation initiative known as Make American Shipbuilding Great Again (MASGA). Hanwha Group…
President Lee Jae Myung bows beside first lady Kim Hea Kyung before boarding the presidential plane at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Sept. 21, to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York and to make a state visit to Mexico. It was Lee’s latest overseas trip. Yonhap President Lee Jae Myung’s overseas…
Durable leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil — known as “Lula” — has won an unprecedented fourth term. He secured 51.8 percent in Sunday’s runoff election, compared with 48.2 percent for opponent Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula’s Workers’ Party secured a judicial extension of voting by two hours because of transportation problems affecting some…
Mexican boxing star wins 12-round decision to defeat the French fighter and regain the super middleweight belt. Published On 1 Nov 20261 Nov 2026 Mexican veteran Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has delivered a commanding performance to defeat French fighter Christian Mbilli and regain his WBC super middleweight title in an emotional victory in Saudi Arabia. Alvarez…
President Lee Jae Myung speaks at a Cabinet meeting, Tuesday. Yonhap President Lee Jae Myung’s anti-diversity rhetoric is doing more harm than good. His remarks about the role of migrant workers in the Korean economy at Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting sparked controversy. But he did not stop there. Instead, he poured fuel on the fire. In…
From left are Lee Eun-mi, a professor at Sejong University’s College of Business and Economics, and doctoral students Yang Pujian and Yang Liu. Courtesy of Sejong University A research team at Sejong University has found that stocks attracting greater attention from retail investors tend to generate lower returns in subsequent periods. The university said the…
This summer, an 18-year-old Vietnamese student made a choice that quietly reverberated across Asia’s educational landscape. After finishing joint first place in Vietnam’s highly competitive national science examination and earning a perfect SAT score, Hoang Huong Giang chose to pursue computer science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology rather than follow the…
Kishangarh, India – As Bagharam Gurjar kneels to pull weeds from his maize field in western India’s Rajasthan state, the sound of his wife coughing nearby makes him restless. “Everything gets ruined when dust settles on the soil,” says Gurjar, 53, barely looking up. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list “May God make…
