South Korea

An executive at rival Android tablet maker Lenovo has mounted a fresh attack on Samsung's Galaxy Tab claiming the company only sold a meagre 20,000 out of the one million tablets shipped in 2010.

Sep 06, 2011

A number of major sites have had their DNS settings hacked today and many visitors redirected to a Turkish hacker's Web site.The hacked Web sites include The Daily Telegraph, UPS, Vodafone, National Geographic and The Register among others. All the hacked Web sites are currently experiencing disruption according Zone-H, a site that monitors Web site defacements.The hackers responsible told The Guardian in an email interview that they were expert in exploiting web vulnerabilities and ...

Sep 05, 2011

A genetically engineered virus that targets cancerous tumour cells in patients without harming healthy tissue has been used successfully for the first time, researchers say.

Sep 01, 2011

The pick of today's Arsenal football transfer rumours, news, gossip and talk. All the latest transfer rumours surrounding Arsenal will be covered here. A £4m deal for South Korea striker Park Chu-Young is expected to be announced today, while Wenger is also close to completing a £6.2 move for Brazil international Andre dos Santos, according to reports on Tuesday morning. The Frenchman retains an interest in Sochaux's Marvin Martin, who could be available for £12m, while reports in Tuesday....

Aug 30, 2011

North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in Siberia Tuesday, making his first visit to the country and old cold war ally in nine years.

Aug 23, 2011

North Korea announced Friday it is ready to resume talks with the U.S. on repatriating the remains of troops killed during the Korean War, after negotiations stalled in 2005 as tensions between the two countries mounted over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

Aug 19, 2011

Chinese media issue another withering assessment.

Aug 15, 2011

North Korea has hit back at South Korea's claim it started an artillery exchange on Wednesday, claiming instead that the South must have mistook construction noise for shelling.

Aug 11, 2011

South Korean Unification Ministry, the ministry which handles relations with North Korea has been targeted by hackers an official said Tuesday.

Aug 10, 2011

South Korea has received intelligence suggesting North Korea is trying to assassinate its defence chief, the Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing government sources.

Aug 10, 2011

Tensions between South and North Korea have been mounting in the last few months and according to a new report from the Associated Press "South Korean marines returned fire Wednesday after North Korea launched artillery shells into waters near the disputed maritime line that separates the two rivals."

Aug 10, 2011

China said the Muifa tropical storm will also have important consequences on the country's economy as new figures estimate the losses to be up to about 3.1 billion yuan ($480 million).

Aug 09, 2011

Prime Minster David Cameron has turned his back on his pledge to give the British public a vote on EU membership.

Aug 08, 2011

Eastern China is trying cope with the high winds and torrential rain that preludes the arrival of Muifa, which observers say will be the region's most powerful storm in decades.

Aug 08, 2011

Apple has been found guilty and fined by South Korea's communications regulator after its flagship iPad tablet was discovered to be illegally collecting users data.

Aug 03, 2011

Apple has managed to secure an agreement ensuring that Galaxy device making rival Samsung won't release its highly anticipated Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until the two company's lawsuit is resolved.

Aug 01, 2011

A new slew of cyber attacks have hit South Korea-based SK Communications service, Cyworld and NATE leaving as many as 35 million account holder's personal information compromised.

Aug 01, 2011

South Korea forecasts even more rain as emergency workers are still entrenched in a battle against floods and landslides that have killed at least 41 people.The capital has been hit with the heaviest July rain on record, which triggered a mudslide in a residential area in the city's south on Wednesday and killed 16 people.

Jul 28, 2011

18 people were killed following torrential rain in South Korea, after the outpour triggered landslides flooded hundreds of homes, rescuers said on Wednesday.

Jul 27, 2011

In one of the many bizarre statements in his 1,500 page manifesto, Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed nearly a hundred people in terrorist attacks in Norway on Friday, said he would be willing to work with al-Qaeda and Iran.

Jul 25, 2011

Samsung has denied allegations that unsafe working conditions in its chip production factories directly led to two employees dying of leukaemia.

Jul 25, 2011

Asian nations hold talks on Friday to try and defuse two critical points of tension in the Pacific, in preliminary steps welcomed by the Obama administration, which China says is attempting to reassert its influence in the region.

Jul 22, 2011

Aiming to convince senators of the viability of the Barack Obama administration's Afghanistan policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday cited South Korea as a successful "investment" case. "You look at the decades of our investment in South Korea," she said, facing a barrage of questions in a meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee aimed at clarifying Washington's policy and progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Jun 24, 2011

Barcelona appear to have beaten Manchester United to the signature of Alexis Sanchez, the Chilean winger is expected to complete a £32m move to the European champions from Udinese this week. United will instead complete the £17m transfer of Ashley Young from Aston Villa, subject to the 25-year-old agreeing personal terms this week.

Jun 20, 2011

Following a ceasefire agreement, the last American ground troops left Vietnam in 1973 and in 1975, Saigon (officially now named Ho Chi Minh City) fell to the North Vietnamese Army.

Jun 15, 2011

In the week that North Korea declared China to be the world's happiest country and the U.S.A. the unhappiest, the poverty stricken nation, under the guidance of its Dear Leader no doubt, has made a new breakthrough, painless birth.

Jun 03, 2011

The reactivation of Sony's PlayStation Store in Europe and America has again been delayed.

May 31, 2011

Sony has confirmed that it will be restarting the PlayStation Network in its home nation Japan as well as all other Asian territories this Saturday.

May 27, 2011

FIFA, football's governing body, has announced it is to investigate vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam over bribery allegations.

May 25, 2011

The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is rumoured to be on a visit to China in what many observer see as an indication of the role of Kim Jong-un as a potential successor to his father. Although his whereabouts remain partially unknown, he was reported by South Korean media to have taken the train to China, which is known to be North Korea’s main ally.

May 20, 2011