North Korea has held a Cabinet meeting to assess its economic performance for the first three months of the year and urged officials to make utmost efforts to achieve their goals "at all costs," state media reported Thursday. At the expanded plenary meeting of the Cabinet held via video link the previous day, Vice Premier Pak Jong-gun made a report analyzing the country's economic weaknesses and...

South Korea's producer prices rose for the third straight month in March as high energy and raw material prices pushed up the costs of churning out factory goods, central bank data showed Thursday. The producer price index, a major barometer of consumer inflation, stood at 116.46 in March, up 1.3 percent from a month earlier, according to the preliminary data from the Bank of Korea (BOK). From ...

South Korea's veterans affairs minister will attend the funeral of retired US Army Col. William E. Weber, a decorated Korean War veteran, in Maryland later this week, his office said Thursday. Hwang Ki-chul is set to attend the funeral on Friday (local time) to deliver President Moon Jae-in's condolence message to the bereaved family and console them on behalf of the Seoul government, according ...

South Korean shares opened higher Thursday as investors picked up large-cap shares amid woes over high-flying inflation. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi) rose 12.78 points, or 0.47 percent, to 2,731.47 as of 9:15 a.m. Overnight, the US stock markets ended mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.71 percent, while the S&P500 fell 0.06 percent and the Nasdaq was do...

Sets in motion complex assembly process of India's first private sector quantum computer dedicated to research in Kolkata Kolkata, India , April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The TCG group is planning to set up a one of its kind university in Kolkata . The group, led by Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee , has committed all the resources that would be required to realise the global scale research aspi...

San Diego Padres' South Korean infielder Kim Ha-seong has gone deep for the first time this season. Kim smacked a solo home run against the Cincinnati Reds in the bottom of the seventh inning at Petco Park in San Diego on Wednesday (local time). With the Padres up 3-0, Kim, who started at third base and batted ninth, stepped into the box against Buck Farmer with one out and nobody on. Kim waste...

Local clinics and hospitals received over 700 billion won ($564 million) won in total in February and March for conducting rapid antigen tests from the national health insurance scheme, data has revealed. According to data submitted to the National Assembly by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on Tuesday, the National Health Insurance Corp. received claims for payment of medical expenses involv...

Are South Koreans generally impassive on the war in Ukraine? No way. But when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his video address appealing for South Korean help last week, a small audience turned up at the auditorium of the National Assembly library to reveal an apparent lack of interest among the representatives of this free democratic country in the bloody war started by Russia’s unprovoked ...

LEBANON, Ore. , April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ENTEK announced strategic investments to expand the company's global manufacturing footprint of Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) separator materials into the United States and India to serve the expanding demand for energy storage solutions for inverters, industrial applications and electric vehicles (EVs). ENTEK is actively engaged in site se...

Phase 1/2 clinical trial of COVID-19-Influenza combination vaccine candidate indicates vaccine is well-tolerated and immunogenic Data from this combination trial will inform planned Phase 2 dose confirmation trial, scheduled to begin by the end of 2022 Immune response confirmed in stand-alone influenza vaccine and combination vaccine with potential path forward for both GAITHERSBURG, Md. , A...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. , April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Sterling Limited LLC, an encryption and digital asset solutions provider, has officially bridged onto the Ethereum network via its wrapped CSOV token , now listed on BitMart , a global exchange with fiat on-ramp services available to U.S citizens. To increase cross-chain compatibility and accessibility of CSOV and quantum-proof ...

TAIPEI , April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE Technology has once again been recognized by the Red Dot Design Award, one of the world's most prestigious design competitions, known as a seal of quality for finest design. This year marks GIGABYTE's third consecutive year winning the Red Dot Design Award, a testament to GIGABYTE's innovation and design excellence. Standing out from tens of tho...

The event marks a significant milestone for the IT company for the present and the future HANOI, Vietnam , April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Savvycom Joint Stock Company (Savvycom), a leading Information Technology company, announced its opening ceremony for its headquarters located in Hanoi, Vietnam on April 19 . The hybrid event aims to celebrate the company's latest milestone and othe...