KUALA LUMPUR, The Public Works Department (JKR) has been instructed to provide technological support to assist in the search and rescue (SAR) operation for the victim of the sinkhole incident at Jalan Masjid India. Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexande...

Shareholders of SK Innovation Co. and its energy affiliate SK E and S Co. on Tuesday approved a proposed merger of the two companies that would create an energy giant in South Korea. SK Innovation said 85.75 percent of its shareholders, who attended...

The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) on Tuesday urged the labor minister nominee to step down voluntarily, a day after he said that Koreans during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule were regarded as Japanese nationals. During Monday's confirmation h...

The price cap for meals for public servants and select other professions was raised to 50,000 won (US$38) from 30,000 won under a revised enforcement ordinance Tuesday. The revised enforcement ordinance to the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act, co...

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Tuesday urged nurses and medical workers nationwide to call off a strike planned for this week, saying the government is doing everything it can to improve their working conditions. Han issued the appeal during a gover...

S. Korea invests heavily in science, but research output ranking low: Nature The world's leading science journal Nature reported in its Aug. 21 supplement on South Korea that the country invests heavily in science, but that its "bang for the buck" -...