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NK boosts exchanges with Laos
North Korea has signed four agreements with Laos to boost economic and cultural exchange, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday as the Stalinist country continues its outreach across Southeast Asia. The agreements were reached a day earlier during a visit by Kim Yong-nam, president of the North’s Presidium of the Supreme…
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Business
Scorching purgatory
Workers take refuge in malls, theaters; complaints grow over energy-saving drive Koreans are withering under what could prove to be the hottest summer on record. But with government officials tightly controlling the use of air conditioners in public buildings and ruthlessly pushing its energy-saving campaign to private employers over growing…
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Hanwha close to buying German solar cell firm
Hanwha Group is favored to take over Germany’s troubled Q-Cells, an established name in the solar energy field, according to company officials as they believe they have the strongest bid. The group’s affiliate Hanwha Chemical is in the final stage of negotiations to absorb Q-Cells. The German company, once the…
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Politics
Activists may take China to UN
Activists said Thursday they would take China’s alleged torture of human rights activist Kim Young-hwan to the U.N. this month with evidence, embarking on a campaign to raise international awareness of Beijing’s human rights abuses. Choi Hong-jae, a spokesman of the committee, demanded China tell the truth about Kim, make…
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Samsung denies child labor abuse claims
Samsung Electronics Thursday vowed to look thoroughly into allegations of child labor abuse at one of its Chinese suppliers, although company officials aren’t convinced that claims by China Labor Watch have any truth to them. The New York-based human rights organization recently released a 31-page report suggesting that HEG Electronics,…
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IT-Science
LG boss gives cash award of W500 mil. to gymnast
LG Group will provide a cash award of 500 million won (about $444,000) to gymnast Yang Hak-seon, who became a national hero after overcoming poverty to win a gold medal at the London Summer Olympics. Yang, Korea’s first gymnast ever to win an Olympic gold, is now the recipient of…
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Lifestyle
Face tells one’s aptitude
There are various ways to analyze physical fitness by scrutinizing the musculoskeletal system, body strength, flexibility and so on. Some say it can also be read by faces, one of the Oriental ways of fortune telling. We may find some interesting clues just by reviewing basic theories. One of the…
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Vitamin C: recipe for chickens to beat heat
Gyeonggi Province has come up with a protective plan to save chickens at risk of dying from heatstroke, the local government said Thursday. It said it has earmarked 50 million won to provide poultry farms with vitamin C and electrolyte drugs to feed to their birds. The measure comes after…
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14 die of heat-related illnesses
Fourteen people have died of heat-related causes across the country in the past two months amid the prolonged heat wave, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said 14 have died of heatstroke, dehydration and other related factors, with 11 of the fatalities reported since July 25…
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Lifestyle
Olympics give boost to taekwondo
Rules transparent, matches exciting, Koreans no longer dominating force At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, one of the biggest incidents was on the taekwondo mat when Cuba’s Angel Matos kicked a Swedish referee in the face after being disqualified for a timeout violation in his bronze medal match. Since that controversial…
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