Sunny K. Park, president of the Korean War United Nations Veterans Memorial Foundation, speaks during an interview with The Korea Times at the newspaper’s headquarters, Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul For Sunny K. Park, memories of the 1950-53 Korean War remain vivid more than seven decades later. Park, an 84-year-old Korean American…
Published On 16 Oct 202616 Oct 2026 Harare, Zimbabwe – The government is trying to persuade citizens to use its own currency more widely, with the longer-term aim of reducing reliance on the US dollar. But after years of currency instability, many remain reluctant to trust the latest attempt. The Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), introduced in…
Students look at a job information board at a university in Seoul, Sept. 9. Yonhap Korea added 113,000 jobs in September, marking three consecutive months of employment gains over 100,000, government data showed Friday. The number of employed people came to 29.26 million in September, compared with 29.15 million a year earlier, according to the…
The Court of Appeal will on November 4 deliver its ruling on an application by the New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, seeking bail pending an appeal against his 20-year prison sentence in an illegal mining case.
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Officials participate in the opening ceremony of the North Korea-China Amnok River Bridge, also known as the Yalu River Bridge, Thursday, in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on Friday. Yonhap North Korea on Friday reported the opening of a new cross-border bridge linking its border city of Sinuiju with China’s Dandong,…
Saudi Arabia calls Houthi attacks 'full-fledged war crimes' while the US warns of possible attacks on Saudi airports.
A screenshot from “Rainbow’s Tale,” an 85-minute drama by Iranian director Saleh Alavizadeh / Courtesy of Saleh Alavizadeh A whistle is about the simplest instrument there is. It takes one breath to blow, and once it sounds, it’s hard to ignore. The Seoul Whistler Film Festival (SWFF) is built around the people who take that…
An Accra High Court has set November 4, 2026, to rule on the bail application filed by the former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. The bail application is pending his appeal against a 20-year jail sentence. The court fixed the date after hearing…
Legal practitioner Martin Kpebu urges Afenyo-Markin to abandon his appeal in the GH¢15m defamation suit against GoldBod CEO Sammy Gyamfi.
