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updated: Sat Jun 28, 2008 04:58 am

South Korea News

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1 hr ago | AndhraNews

India and China to rule online shopping world by 2010

Its not been long since India was bitten by the online shopping bug, and come 2010, the country is all set to rule the online shopping domain, for a new research has suggested that India and China will become ...

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5 hrs ago | Victoria Advocate

Rice urges South Koreans to eat US beef

June 27, 2008 - 11:58 p.m. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Saturday that U.S. beef is safe to eat and urged South Koreans to accept their government's decision to lift a ban on the products.

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Fri Jun 27, 2008

People's Daily Online

DPRK official: China plays important role in denuclearization

The demolition of the cooling tower at Yongbyon, the nuclear center of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , demonstrated that China had played an important role in the denuclearization process, a DPRK ...

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International Herald Tribune

Samsung Group unveils management shakeup to boost transparency

SEOUL, South Korea : Samsung Group unveiled measures Wednesday to bring more transparency to its management structure following a scandal that led to the resignation of its chairman, but critics said the reform ...

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Newkerala.com

UAE seeks closer business ties with South Korea

Seoul, June 27 : The United Arab Emirates has called upon South Korea to invest in the Gulf country and launch global joint projects, WAM news agency reported Friday.

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VietNamNet

Party chief receives DPRK security minister

Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh on June 26 received a visiting delegation from the People's Security Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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Reuters RSS Reuters.com

VIDEO: Bloggers and politics in S. Korea

Jun. 25 - Tech-savvy South Koreans, armed with laptops and cameras, are taking citizen journalism and activism to new heights.

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Thu Jun 26, 2008

People's Daily Online

In anticipation of new progress in Six-party Talks

China hopes that the second-phase actions of the Six-party talks between China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , the United States, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Russia will be implemented in a ...

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XtraMSN Real Estate

SKorea set to resume US beef imports, more protests called

South Korea announced it will resume US beef imports from Thursday after negotiating extra safeguards against mad cow disease, despite protests by tens of thousands of people over recent weeks.

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BusinessWeek

Lone Star, HSBC Deal for Korean Bank Nears Collapse

Posted by: Moon Ihlwan on June 24 U.S. buyout fund Lone Star's $6 billion deal to sell its 51% stake in Korea Exchange Bank to HSBC could collapse unless they agree to extend a deadline for obtaining regulatory ...

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UzReport

South Korea, Uzbekistan to establish mil-tech cooperation

Ruslan Mirzayev, Uzbekistan's Minister of Defence, who arrived in Seoul on 24 June, holds talks, the first-ever ones in the history of relations between the two countries, with Lee Sang-hi, Defence Minister of ...

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Wed Jun 25, 2008

Power FM

Joint agreement sparks Korean beef

Tens of thousands of Koreans have been taking to the streets to protest against imports of US beef.

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KHOU-TV Houston

U.S. ranchers happy to see added foreign market

U.S. cattle producers facing skyrocketing costs and stagnant domestic demand say they need overseas markets like South Korea.

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EETimes

Samsung, Hynix to team on MRAM, 450-mm wafers

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., South Korea's two largest chip companies and leaders in memory IC sales, have said they plan to co-develop and standardize spin-torque-transfer ...

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ABC News

N. Korea Invites TV Crews for Nuclear Show

South Korean nuclear envoy Kim Sook speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent... South Korean nuclear envoy Kim Sook speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club in ...

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People's Daily Online

DPRK: Inter-Korean economic projects face crisis

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said Sunday that inter-Korean economic projects have been jeopardized due to the South Korean government's in cooperative policy, the official news agency KCNA ...

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Eyefortravel

New Korean airline expects to break-even in three years

Korean Air has decided to launch operations of its new domestic subsidiary, Jin Air, on July 17.

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Tue Jun 24, 2008

WAVY-TV Portsmouth

Police say pregnant soldier's death 'suspicious'

Authorities say they are investigating the "suspicious" death of a pregnant Marine, whose body was found at a Fayetteville motel.

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The Age

Singaporeans biggest online spenders: survey

Singaporeans and South Koreans are the region's biggest online spenders, a survey by MasterCard said Tuesday.

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Freerepublic.com

Beef production is bad for the planet

Earlier this month, more than a hundred thousand South Koreans demonstrated against newly elected president Lee Myung-bak as his entire cabinet offered to resign.

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