South Korean stocks finished a tad higher Monday as investors took a breather ahead of the release of the Fed minutes and the second-quarter earnings guidance of Samsung Electronics. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar on the first day of…
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker, said Monday its June sales dropped 6.3 percent from a year earlier due to a slowdown in domestic sales.
Hyundai Motor sold 375,167 vehicles in June, down from 375,167 units a year earlier, the compa…
South Korea will launch a new ministry of population strategy to address low birth rates and a rapidly aging population, which have emerged as some of the starkest challenges facing the country, officials said Monday.
The government unveiled the pla…
The Education Minister expressed his condolences over the loss of a teacher from the car bomb incident in front of the Bannang Sata police flats. At the time of the incident, the teacher was riding a motorcycle to buy food and prepare food for the st…
Interrogation of suspects involved in the bombing of the Bannang Sata police flats, urgently expanding the investigation into the gang members, expected to still be hiding in the border area. The national police chief is preparing to visit the area t…
Rival parties clashed Monday over a bill mandating a special counsel investigation into the military’s response to a Marine’s death last year.
The parliamentary House Steering Committee held a plenary meeting and questioned Chung Jin-suk, the presid…
Major South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean Co. said Monday it has won orders totaling 2.15 trillion won (US$1.55 billion) for eight carriers from two Middle Eastern shippers.
Hanwha Ocean will build four liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships for one un…
A national trauma treatment center began operations Monday for victims of state violence in the southwestern city of Gwangju, the site of the bloody crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy uprising.
The establishment of the state violence trauma treatment…
The Meteorological Department reported that Thailand will see less rain, but some areas of the upper North and Northeast will still experience heavy rain. People in these areas should be careful of the dangers of heavy rain. As for Bangkok and its vi…
The Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) revealed that during the first 4 months of 2024, Thailand’s agricultural exports expanded. When compared to agricultural imports from around the world, there was a surplus of more than 340 billion baht. It i…