Shoppers enter the Apple Inc. Store on Fifth Avenue in New York. (Bloomberg)NEW YORK (AFP) ― Apple plans to launch its next-generation iPhone during the third quarter of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.The newspaper, citing “people familiar with the situation,” said Apple has placed orders for key components to used in the new version of the iPhone and that it would be thin

In two years since brush with death, auto industry has added jobs faster than rest of economyDETROIT (AP) ― Volkswagen opened a plant in Tennessee last month with 2,000 workers. Honda is hiring 1,000 in Indiana to meet demand for its best-selling Civic. General Motors is looking for 2,500 in Detroit to build the Chevy Volt.Two years after the end of the Great Recession, the auto industry is hiring

John Z. LeeJohn Z. Lee, a 44-year-old Korean-American attorney, has been recommended to the White House for a position as a federal judge in Illinois.Lee was recommended along with three others by Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin while Republican Sen. Mark Kirk recommended an additional candidate. Currently, there are three vacant seats for the federal bench at U.S. District Court for the Northern Distri

Kwon Roh-gapKwon Roh-gap, close aide to the late President Kim Dae-jung and senior advisor of the main opposition Democratic Party, is to enter the graduate school of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies to earn a master’s degree in English literature.“To learn the unknown is my greatest pleasure,” said the Kwon, 81. “This will be my first campus experience in 50 years and I hope that my healt

Han Yoon-bongHan Yoon-bong, a professor of chemical engineering at Chonbuk National University, has been named Korea’s scientist of the month for his work on metal oxide nanostructures. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation of Korea award monthly to those who “contributed significantly to the science.”The 56-year-old professor has received recogniti

Cho Joo-hee, Seoul bureau chief of ABC News, poses at a press conference promoting her book, “Aspire with Grace,” in southern Seoul, Tuesday. (Yonhap News.)Cho Joo-hee, Seoul bureau chief of ABC News, has published her first memoir “Aspire with Grace“ in Seoul this month.Having worked for both ABC News and the Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in Seoul since 1999, Cho seemed more than con

Lee Jong-joo, Unification Ministry deputy spokeswoman (Yonhap News)First senior female unification diplomat in Korean EmbassyA deputy spokeswoman in the South Korean government is to take charge of unification affairs at the Korean Embassy in the U.S. Lee Jong-joo, 39, deputy spokeswoman of the Unification Ministry, will become the first female unification attach in the Korean Embassy in Washingt

All dressed up in riot gear and nowhere to go. Such was the plight of two dozen Thai police officers stewing in boredom Sunday night near one of Bangkok’s busier nightlife districts. Thai elections tend to be anarchic affairs for the keepers of order, with protests often deteriorating into violence. This time was different; tear gas canisters sat unused after the victory of allies of Thaksin Shina

MUNICH ― “It’s not the euro that’s in danger, but the public finances of individual European countries.” One hears this everywhere nowadays, but it’s not true. The euro itself is at risk, because the countries in crisis have, in recent years, been running the eurozone’s monetary printing presses overtime.Some 90 percent of the refinancing debt that the commercial banks of the GIPS countries (Greec