South Korean Asian Games baseball manager Ryu Joong-il said Saturday his recent decision to cut a hard-throwing left-hander from the team was a particularly tough one.Ryu had decided Friday to drop Lee Eui-lee, southpaw ace for the Kia Tigers in the K…
Ending pandemic-led yearslong isolation, North Korea made its first international outing in a major multisport event in five years at the 19th Asian Games that kicked off Saturday in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.Spearheaded by two flag bearers, boxer …
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo is willing to meet the North Korean delegation visiting the Chinese city of Hangzhou for the Asian Games in the event of an encounter, a senior government official said Saturday.Han arrived in China earlier in the day to at…
The wait is over.After a year’s delay, the 19th Asian Games opened in Hangzhou, China, on Saturday with an eco-friendly ceremony highlighting the host country’s cultural heritage and its cutting-edge technology.The opening ceremony took place at the lo…
For Gu Bon-gil, South Korea’s highly-decorated sabre fencer, flag-bearing at the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in China is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.He served in the same role at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.Unlike s…
A family of five has been found dead in three different locations in and around Seoul, and police are investigating connections into their deaths, police said Saturday.Police received a report at 7:29 a.m. of a 40-year-old woman having jumped off an a…
Abuja: At a bustling food market in Nigeria’s capital, Mummy Christiana breaks down in tears as she describes how a conflict thousands of kilometers away leaves her family struggling to