The deaths come as Jakarta says it will accept foreign help to tackle its worst forest fires in more than a decade. Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 Four people tackling a wildfire in a national park on Indonesia’s island of Java have been killed, the Forestry Ministry said, as the country battles its…
Park Dong-il, second from right, deputy minister for industrial policy at the MInistry of Trade, Industry and Resources, speaks during a roundtable meeting in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap President Lee Jae Myung on Friday appointed a new vice industry minister and a new deputy chief of the Financial Services Commission (FSC). Park Dong-il, a senior official…
Yoo Dam, right, daughter of former presidential candidate Yoo Seong-min, campaigns for her father during the 2017 presidential election. Yonhap Former opposition lawmaker Yoo Seong-min and three university officials have been referred to the prosecution for possible indictment over allegations of preferential treatment in the hiring of Yoo’s daughter as a professor by Incheon National…
President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a senior aides’ meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap President Lee Jae Myung’s approval rating rose slightly to 39 percent after weeks of decline, a weekly poll showed Friday. The survey, conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday through Thursday on 1,003 people aged 18 and…
A bystander has filmed residents of a condemned building in Peru’s Huancayo throwing flaming gasoline on officials trying to evict them. Nine workers suffered severe burns in the attack. Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 Share Residents douse workers with flaming gasoline during eviction in Peru on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera…
Containers are stacked at a port in Busan, Oct. 1. Yonhap Korea’s economy continues to show solid signs of recovery, supported by robust exports and improving domestic consumption, the finance ministry said Friday. In its monthly economic report, the Ministry of Finance and Economy also noted that uncertainties surrounding the war in the Middle East…
Fifteen persons have been arrested by National Security operatives for allegedly engaging in illegal sand winning on the newly cleared right-of-way for the proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway. The arrests were made on Wednesday following a tip-off from a whistleblower, after reports that unscrupulous persons had commenced sand winning activities along sections of the corridor. At Sewuah…
Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il, right, shakes hands with his British counterpart, John Healey, in Bangkok, Friday. Courtesy of Ministry of Finance and Economy. Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il called for joint efforts to address shared economic challenges, including global imbalances, during meetings of financial policymakers in Bangkok, his office said Friday. Lee attended a meeting of…
Apartments complexes in Seoul, Oct. 4 / Yonhap The Seoul city government on Friday blamed policies pursued under late former Mayor Park Won-soon for weakening the foundation for long-term housing supply in the capital. The municipality made the assessment in a report analyzing the city’s housing policies over the past 20 years, as recent shortages…
“The Palestinian question is the greatest historical injustice of this century,” China’s foreign minister said. Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting in Azerbaijan that Israel should stop and reverse its “forced establishment” of West Bank settlements, China’s foreign ministry said…
