SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea closed its airspace to ensure silence and offered police escorts for tardy test takers Thursday as more than half a million students sat high-stakes college admission exams. Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall in...
K-pop group Girls’ Generation member Taeyeon tested positive for Covid-19 as South Korea’s new daily cases surged to more than 70,000. On Nov. 14, SM Entertainment announced Taeyeon’s condition. Girls' Generation's Taeyeon (Instagram) “Taeyeon was diagnosed with COVID-19 today (Nov. 14),”...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is supporting South Korea in its denuclearization efforts in the Korean Peninsula by saying the government will do what it can to give assistance. Marcos, who recently condemned North Korea’s ballistic missile launches, backed the initiatives...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- US President Joe Biden said Sunday he will seek to establish "red lines" in America's fraught relations with Beijing when he holds high-stakes talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Biden said he goes into Monday's encounter on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday urged North Korea to comply with the United Nations (UN) security resolutions following its recent ballistic missile launches. During his intervention at the 41st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit Retreat,...
The Philippines and South Korea have agreed to further strengthen supply chain cooperation, according to Trade and Industry Undersecretary and Board of Investments (BOI) Managing Head Ceferino Rodolfo. The two parties affirmed to prioritize supply chain and energy cooperation to further expand...
The most awaited creation of the multi-million-dollar, sea-crossing bridges in Western Visayas (Region 6) will commence in the first quarter of 2023, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) declared on Friday, Nov. 11. Photo courtesy of DPWH In his report to DPWH Secretary Manuel M....
Everything we’ve learned from the South Korean celebrity on his first visit to the Philippines WOOKIE FEVER The press con at the Peninsula Manila with host Sam Oh, Ji Chang Wook, and his interpreter In If You Wish Upon Me , he taught us that it would never be too late to heal. In The Sound of...
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is launching a network of international routes linking Clark International Airport (CRK) to Seoul, Busan and Hong Kong, the flag carrier announced Wednesday, November 9. The Clark-Korea regular daily flights start this Friday, November 11, with PAL operating from Clark to...
President Marcos has named veteran journalist Jaime Florcruz as the Philippine ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the People’s Republic of China with concurrent jurisdiction over the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Mongolia. Jaime Florcruz (Source: CNN Philippines)...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's former president Moon Jae-in is seeking to give up two dogs gifted to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing a lack of support from Seoul, his office said Monday. Photo from Moon Jae-Ian's Cheong Wa Dae official Twitter account The white Pungsan dogs, one...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The North Korean military said its response to US-South Korean war drills would be "resolute and overwhelming", state media reported Monday. The warning came after a spate of North Korean weapons tests last week -- including an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as the...
