MOSCOW, Russia - Russia on Wednesday warned South Korea against sending weapons to Ukraine after Seoul opened the door to possible military aid to Kyiv in the event of a large-scale civilian attack. An ally of Washington, Seoul has provided non-lethal and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, but...
California-40th congressional district Rep. Young Kim (left), and House Speaker Martin Romualdez. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez rubbed elbows on Tuesday morning, April 18 (Philippine time) with an Asian trailblazer in the United States (US) House of Representatives. Romualdez...
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. (Screenshot from Zoom) Suspended congressman, Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. continues to make his exact whereabouts a mystery. In a press briefing via Zoom on Monday afternoon, April 17--his first since the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- A bus carrying Israeli tourists overturned on a rural road in central South Korea, local police told AFP Friday, leaving one person dead and dozens more injured. The bus carrying 33 Israeli tourists was travelling from the popular historic city of Gyeongju in the southeast to...
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's top court ruled Thursday that Google must disclose details of any personal information of South Korean nationals that it had shared with third parties, sending the case back to a lower court. The ruling comes in response to a 2014 lawsuit filed by a group of...
Aid supplies from South Korea arrived in Manila on Wednesday for the ongoing efforts to clean up the tanker oil spill that started from the waters off Mindoro Oriental. According to the Korean Embassy in the Philippines, about 20 tons of sorbent pads and snares, 1,000 meters of solid flotation...
South Korea is in need of fruit and vegetable farmers, and the Philippines could be a potential source. This was shared by Pampanga 4th district Rep. Anna York Bondoc in a recent video she uploaded on Facebook. Bondoc, a vice chairperson of the House Committee on Poverty Alleviation, was part of a...
TUTOK TO WIN Party-list Rep. Sam Verzosa recently shared on Facebook photos of him and fellow House of Representatives members during a trip to South Korea. Heading the Philippine delegation was Senior Deputy Speaker and former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Based on his uploads about the trip,...
South Korea is now joining the Philippines in the clean up of the oil spill that has spread across different provinces from Oriental Mindoro. According to the South Korean Embassy in Manila, members of the Korean Coast Guard will be sent to the country to assist its Filipino counterpart. They will...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a defence ministry official told AFP on Saturday, as the two countries move to thaw long-frozen relations and renew diplomacy to counter Pyongyang. At a fence-mending summit on Thursday,...
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea said Wednesday it would build the world's largest chip centre using $230 billion of private investment mostly from Samsung Electronics, as it seeks an edge in the global industry. The plan is part of the South Korean government's drive to invest heavily in six key...
An employee of Korea’s high-speed train has illegally accessed the personal information of K-pop boy band BTS member RM. An exclusive report by Korean news program “SBS Eight O'Clock News” on March 1 stated that a female employee of the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) was able to access...
