• Korea to host anti-smoking confab

    Korea will host a World Health Organization (WHO) conference on smoking aimed at reducing the sales of tobacco products worldwide. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday 1,000 delegates from 170 countries will attend the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on Nov. 12 for six days. The meeting…

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  • Prison terms confirmed for ex-medical students

    The Supreme Court has upheld prison sentences issued by lower courts on two former medical students of Korea University convicted of sexually harassing a drunken female classmate in May last year. On Thursday, the Supreme Court confirmed a 30-month prison term for a 24-year-old man surnamed Park. He was convicted…

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  • Society

    Bill to ban alcohol ads by young celebrities

    Figure skater Kim Yu-na and CL of girl group 2NE1 may not appear in beer commercials anymore, because a lawmaker plans to present a bill banning athletes and entertainers aged-under 25 appearing in alcoholic drink ads. The move is aimed at putting the brakes on alcoholic marketing that targets youngsters.…

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  • Society

    Diet is tricky for stomach cancer patients

    Stomach cancer is the most common cancer in Korea and kills about 10,000 people every year. It is the most prevalent carcinoma among men (20.7 percent of all cancer cases in 2008) and the third most common in women after thyroid and ovarian cancer (10.7 percent). Experts point to the…

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  • Society

    AJA-JTO sign MOU to promote tourism in Jeju Island

    The Asia Journalist Association (AJA), represented by Ivan Lim, and the Jeju Tourism Organization (JTO), headed by Yang Yong-kun, signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) in a ceremony at Jeju Welcome Center Thursday (June 28) to promote tourism in the resort island in connection with its selection as one of the New 7  Wonders of Nature…

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  • Politics

    Turkish PM: We’ll teach aggressors lesson

    Turkey has no intention of attacking anyone, but will “teach those who dare to test the limits of its might,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday as he introduced Turkey’s first domestically produced training jet to the public in a show of the nation’s increasing defense capacity. Erdoğan…

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  • Politics

    Annan invites Turkey to Geneva meeting on Syria

    UN envoy Kofi Annan has invited Turkey to the upcoming Geneva meeting of world powers to find ways of ending the violence in Syria. Annan said on Wednesday that the action group for Syria will convene at the ministerial level in Geneva on Saturday. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham…

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  • Iran may boycott Korean products

    If Korea complies with the European Union sanctions, Iran will consider halting all South Korean imports in response, Iran’s ambassador warned Wednesday. In an interview with Yonhap News Agency, Ambassador Ahmad Masumifar said Tehran “may decide to fully stop importing Korean goods” in protest against Seoul’s decision. The decision will…

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  • Samsung, LG lose secret panel knowhow

    Key display panel production technology of Samsung and LG has been leaked overseas through a subcontractor, presumably to a Chinese display giant. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office arrested and indicted three Korean workers at the Korean branch of Orbotech, an Israel-based company supplying display testing equipment, Wednesday, on charges…

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  • Society

    ‘Comfort women’ to sue Japan’s ultra-right activist

    The last-remaining “comfort women,” who were forced to serve as sex slaves under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945), plan to take legal action against Japanese right-wing activist Nobuyuki Suzuki. Suzuki last week provoked public anger here by tying a wooden stake to the statue of a young comfort woman erected in…

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