Michel Catuira, president of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants’ Trade Union, faces deportation, despite having a lawsuit against Korean Immigration Services in progress.Immigration has refused a visa to allow Catuira to fight his case, but has instead offered a verbal promise not to deport him, his lawyer said.Catuira, a 38-year-old Filipino, has been in Korea since 2006 as a registered migrant

Samsung Engineering Co., South Korea's largest industrial plant builder, said Tuesday that its net profit jumped 74.3 percent in the first quarter from a year ago on reduced costs. Net profit came to 121.4 billion won (US$110.7 million) in the January-March period, compared with 69.6 billion won during the same period in 2010, Samsung Engineering said in a regulatory filing. Sales rose 67.1 percen

A hungry 6-year-old boy in Oregon was reportedly rescued after crashing his mother’s minivan which he had driven to buy food on Sunday.The boy, whose name has not been revealed, had managed to drive his mother’s vehicle to buy some food, according a local newspaper.Though he did not wear the seatbelt, the boy was not injured because the car was running very slowly. It crashed into some mailboxes a

A man who was helping to fly a huge kite in Huai’an, Jiangsu province, was nearly killed when it lifted him 7 meters off the ground.The incident happened on April 5 when several professional kite fliers took the phoenix kite, which was 40 meters long and 30 meters wide, to a plaza but could not get it off the ground because of its size.With the help of some local residents and a gust of wind, it f

South Korea is considering lowering taxes on oil consumption to help ease financial burdens on low- and mid-income people from sky-high oil prices, the nation's finance minister hinted Monday."The government does not deny the need for lowering oil taxes,"Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun told lawmakers. "It is taking a close look at when and how much the government should push for (tax reduction)."

TOKYO (AP) -- Readings Monday from robots that entered two crippled buildings at Japan's tsunami-flooded nuclear plant for the first time in more than a month revealed a harsh environment still too radioactive for workers to enter.   Nuclear officials said the radiation data for Unit 1 and Unit 3 at the tsunami-flooded Fukushima Dai-ichi plant _ collected by U.S.-made robots that look like draftin

The largest association of overseas-based Korean business leaders put forward an ambitious vision Monday to offer overseas internship positions for 10,000 young Korean adults as it celebrated its 30th anniversary with a pledge to expand the "business territory" of their homeland.   The World Federation of Overseas Korean Traders Association, or World-OKTA, also vowed to take advantage of its deep-

Senior Chinese officials invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's heir apparent son, Kim Jong-un, to visit Beijing during their trip to Pyongyang in recent months, an opposition lawmaker said Monday, citing South Korea's spy chief.   The verbal invitation is widely seen as China's seal of approval for Kim's plan to hand over power to his youngest son in what would mark the communist regime's seco

Four teams from South Korea's K-League at the ongoing Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League this week are set for return matches against Japanese clubs, as they look to take another step toward reaching the next stage.   At the top continental club competition, FC Seoul, the leader of Group F, will host Nagoya Grampus on Tuesday at 8 p.m. Seoul and Nagoya drew 1-1 two weeks ago.   Al