KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail today attended the Aidilfitri open house of Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul held at his official residence here.
Anwar, who was wearing a…
Foreign investors scooped up Korean stocks in March for the fifth consecutive month on the back of hopes for a recovery in the chipmaking sector and stock-boosting measures, central bank data showed Thursday.
Offshore investors bought a net US$3.84 b…
An international tribunal ordered South Korea on Thursday to pay 43.8 billion won (US$32 million) in compensation to U.S.-based hedge fund Mason Capital in an investor-state suit the company filed over a controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung affili…
The number of traffic deaths in South Korea dropped to a record low of around 2,500 last year, nearly half from a decade ago, data showed Thursday.
A total of 2,551 people died from road accidents in 2023, a 6.7 percent decline from the 2,735 deaths …
The crime action movie “I, the Executioner” by Ryoo Seung-wan is set to be screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the organizer said Thursday.
The film has been selected for the Midnight Screenings section of the festival’s 77th edition.
A se…
South Korean stocks traded 0.45 percent lower late Thursday morning on IT and financial shares.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index had lost 12.12 points to 2,693.04 as of 11:20 a.m.
Overnight, major U.S. indexes lost ground as the relea…
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