SEOUL, The South Korean baseball league announced Thursday it will introduce robot umpires and pitch clocks to speed up games and ensure more fairness.The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the automated ball-strike system (ABS), colloquially calle…
SEOUL, The antitrust regulator said Thursday it has decided to slap a fine of 29.8 billion won (US$21.93 million) on JW Pharmaceutical, a local drug firm, for providing illegal rebates to local clinics.The company had given cash, gifts and other benef…
PAJU, South Korea, Rose Zhang, the American LPGA rookie sensation, lived up to her considerable hype from the get-go, winning her very first LPGA Tour event as a professional in June.Zhang, 20, recorded consecutive top-10 finishes in her next two tourn…
SEOUL, Prosecutors on Thursday indicted actor Yoo Ah-in for habitually using illegal drugs, nearly a month after an arrest warrant for him was dismissed for the second time.The 37-year-old actor, who was not detained, is accused of getting injections …
SEOUL, South Korea’s foreign ministry on Thursday expressed “deep concerns” over the escalating civilian casualties following a recent deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza in the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.”O…
SEOUL, President Yoon Suk Yeol will make a five-day trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar later this week, his office said Thursday.Yoon will make a state visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from Saturday to Tuesday followed by a state visit to Doha, Qatar, from T…
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