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Apparently the reform is a response to inflation which has made the old currency of limited value. However as the article notes people holding the old currency will lose a lot as a result of the change. The top leaders...

North and South Korea patrol boats tangled on the high seas Monday in a simmering dispute on who’s water is whose two days before U.S. President Barack Obama heads a diplomatic mission for talks throughout Southeast Asia. A northern vessel...

This has gone too far. First President Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize “without actually producing any peace,” writes Andrew Malcolm. Now the South Korean president has awarded him a black belt in tae kwon do “after zero long...

Kiran Raja sent this photo from Seoul, capital of South Korea. Kiran settled in Seoul after her marriage with her cousin who is doing a job in Seoul’s IT industry. Located on the Han River in the center of the...

Today in Goyang (South Korea) raised the flag of Armenia and the Armenian national anthem sounded. At the World Championships in weightlifting among women in the weight category 69 kg three gold medals won member of the Armenian team Nazik...

SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korean health authorities on Monday reported its first case of a patient infected with the A/H1N1 flu strain resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. According to the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs,...

SEOUL : South Korea, the OECD's fastest-growing carbon polluter, said on Thursday it would finalise its carbon emission reduction targets for 2020 on Nov. 17 at between unchanged from and 4 percent below 2005 levels. An official of the presidential...

The small resort island of Saipan is in mourning today as a lone gunman went on a rampage killing 4 people and wounding 6 more before taking his own life. Among those killed were 2 children aged 2 and 4....

He was a 39-year old delivery man, was married in 2001, has a daughter of the preschool age but had been engaging in rapes on a regular basis. The police have arrested him on charges of raping at least 125...