South Korean electronics giant Samsung is set to buy a three-percent stake in struggling Japanese rival Sharp via a capital increase, a press report said Tuesday, a deal that would give Samsung greater access to smartphone and tablet computer screens.The Japanese economic newspaper Nikkei said in its online edition that Sharp would sell Samsung new shares worth around 10 billion yen (83 million euros, $108 million), and use the funds it earned to bolster its bottom line.An official announcement

South Korea's central bank said Wednesday it increased its holding of gold in three months in February in a bid to diversify the portfolio of its foreign exchange reserves worth more than US$320 billion.The Bank of Korea (BOK) said it bought 20 tons of gold, raising the central bank's gold holdings to 104.4 tons valued at US$4.79 billion as of end-February.The move marked the BOK's fifth purchase of the yellow metal since July 2011 when the bank bought gold for the first time in 13 years. It als

A U.S.-China draft resolution aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program would impose some of the strongest sanctions ever ordered by the United Nations, in a move certain to infuriate the regime and inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The proposed resolution put forward by the United States and China _ North Korea's closest ally _ followed Pyongyang's third nuclear test on Feb. 12. It reflected the U.N. Security Council's growing anger over the country's defia

Feb. 4, 1992 -- Army paratrooper Lt. Col. Chavez leads botched coup against President Carlos Andres Perez. Faces possible 30-year prison term.March 26, 1994 -- After two years in jail awaiting trial, Chavez and fellow plotters set free when President Rafael Caldera dismisses charges.Dec. 6, 1998 -- Wins presidential election, promising to seek “third way” between socialism and capitalism.Feb. 2, 1999 -- Hours after being sworn in, decrees referendum on whether to rewrite constitution.April 25, 1

Reactions to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were as mixed, polemical and outsized as the leader was in life, with some saying his passing was a tragic loss and others calling it an opportunity for Venezuela to escape his long shadow.Seen as a hero by some for his anti-U.S. rhetoric and gifts of cut-rate oil, others considered him a bully.A teary-eyed Bolivian President Evo Morales, one of Chavez's closest allies and most loyal disciples, declared that “Chavez is more alive than ev

Vice President Nicolas Maduro is taking over leadership of Hugo Chavez's political movement after the socialist leader died Tuesday at age 58 following a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Maduro now faces the daunting task of rallying support in a deeply divided country while maintaining unity within his party's ranks.Maduro decidedly lacks the vibrant personality that made Chavez a one-man political phenomenon in Venezuela, but he has the advantage of being Chavez's hand-picked successor.The mu

스티븐 스필버그의 1993년작 ‘쉰들러 리스트’에 아역배우로 출연했던 여성이 이 경험으로 인해 심한 고통을 받았었다고 고백했다.올리비아 다브로브스카 (24)는 최근 영국 언론과의 인터뷰에서 만 세 살 때 촬영했던 이 영화를 11살 때 처음보고 “몸서리를 쳤다(horrified)”라고 말했다.“이 영화에 출연한 게 수치스러웠고, 제 영화 내의 역할에 대해 부모님이 누군가에게 말할 때마다 화가 났죠”라고 그녀는 말했다.‘쉰들러 리스트는 제 2차 세계대전 나치에 의해 자행된 유대인 대학살을 다룬 흑백영화로서, 다브로보스카는 여기서 한 어린 유대인 희생자 역을 맡았다. 주인공인 오스카 쉰들러는 수용소에 있는 군중 속에서 어린 소녀의 모습을 보고, 나중에 그녀의 시신을 본 다음 유대인을 최대한 많이 살려야겠다는 마음을 먹게 된다.이 장면에서 붉은 옷을 입고 있는 소녀의 모습은 영화에서 유일하게 색을 띠고 있는 장면이다.다브로보스카는 감독 스필버그와 “18세가 되면 영화를 보겠다”라고 약속했음

A breakdown of a ventilator at a chemical factory in southeastern South Korea caused the leakage of chlorine gas on Tuesday, injuring 11 employees, police and company officials said.Around 1 liter of the toxic gas was leaked at around 8:50 a.m. at the Gumi Chemical factory located in the Gumi National Industrial Complex, some 200 kilometers southeast of Seoul, while workers there were trying to transfer the liquid gas from a tanker.A 35-year-old employee was sent to a nearby hospital for difficu

South Korea on Tuesday reported a "significant progress" at the U.N. Security Council debate over how to punish North Korea for conducting a nuclear test last month, the foreign ministry said, as the council is set to hold a meeting in New York."A significant progress has been made (at the U.N. Security Council over sanctions against North Korea), but no final agreement has been reached yet," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said. Cho confirmed that the Security Council will hold a meeti

The United States and China have reached agreement on a new draft sanctions resolution to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, U.N. diplomats said late Monday.The U.N. Security Council announced late Monday evening that it will hold closed consultations on North Korea and non-proliferation at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made, said the United States is expected to circulate a draft resolution to the full c

China targeted 2013 economic growth of 7.5 percent and vowed an unwavering fight against corruption Tuesday at the start of an annual parliamentary session that will seal its transition to new leadership.Outgoing premier Wen Jiabao pledged to protect China's "territorial integrity" as the government laid down another double-digit rise in military spending to modernize the world's largest standing army, at a time of mounting tensions.In his final major act after a decade in charge of day-to-day g

The BP executive who led the company's probe of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion denied Monday that his investigators narrowly focused on rig workers' actions to spare onshore engineers and managers from blame for the disaster.At the start of the second week of a trial over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a lawyer for rig owner Transocean Ltd. asked the BP executive, Mark Bly, why his team's report doesn't mention a call from BP rig supervisor Donald Vidrine to an onshore engineer l