Новости за 19.02.2016

SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank head forecast additional difficulties for the economy Friday, saying uncertainties in the global financial market were increasing more than ever before. "Since the beginning of the year, uncerta

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By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Kim Man-bok takes pride in being able to walk up subway stairs and talk over his cellphone without a hearing aid at the age of 76. After getting bored of spending time in parks and mountains, the retired

SEJONG, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will build a new international maritime passenger terminal on the west coast by 2020 in a bid to meet rising demand for maritime transport with China, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fi

By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean chipmakers lost ground in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip market in the fourth quarter of 2015 due mainly to falling prices and increased competition. According to the data co

SAKURA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 19, 2016, in Sakura, near Tokyo, shows a church at which a 36-year-old took a woman...

Three youths were arrested on Thursday for allegedly stealing two donations boxes containing Rs 25,000 cash from a church in Chandannagar on February 9.

Housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry on Thursday sanctioned construction of 81,757 houses for economically weaker sections (EWS) in 163 cities and towns in seven states.

By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Kim Man-bok takes pride in being able to walk up subway stairs and talk over his cellphone without a hearing aid at the age of 76. After getting bored of spending time in parks and mountains, the retired

SEJONG, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will build a new international maritime passenger terminal on the west coast by 2020 in a bid to meet rising demand for maritime transport with China, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fi

By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Kim Man-bok takes pride in being able to walk up subway stairs and talk over his cellphone without a hearing aid at the age of 76. After getting bored of spending time in parks and mountains, the retired

SEJONG, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will build a new international maritime passenger terminal on the west coast by 2020 in a bid to meet rising demand for maritime transport with China, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Oceans and Fi

By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean chipmakers lost ground in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip market in the fourth quarter of 2015 due mainly to falling prices and increased competition. According to the data co

Three Chinese students have been jailed in California for attacks against two classmates that included burning one of the victims with cigarettes and forcing her to eat her own hair.

A 20% tax on sugary drinks in the UK would prevent 3.7 million people becoming obese over the next decade, a report predicts.

GOODYEAR, Arizona - J.J. Hoover will get a chance to fill the Cincinnati Reds' closer role, vacated when Aroldis Chapman was traded to the Yankees in the offseason.

Creating your dream kitchen doesn't have to break the bank

American comedian Hannibal Buress says on U.S. late-night television he was nearly thrown out of a Toronto taxi last week for mentioning Uber while in the city for the NBA All-Star Game.

As a young boy in an acting family, Kiefer Sutherland didn't realize how big a star his father, Donald, was in Hollywood.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for a suicide car bombing that killed 28 people in the capital Ankara, and he vowed retaliation in both Syria and Iraq.

UP police on Thursday arrested five persons for the murder of a journalist in Sultanpur on February 13 and revealed that he was killed by mining mafia.

Population shifts are not the only, or the best, predictor of presidential election outcomes.