South Korea

Reports suggest South Korean officials from the country's Fair Trade Commission raided Google's Seoul offices on Tuesday.

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.

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 ...

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.

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....

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.

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.

Chinese media issue another withering assessment.

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.

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

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

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."

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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