Dokdo

2011-08-16

South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in the East Sea consist of two main islets and 89 smaller rocks. The total surface area of the islets is 187,554 ...

U.S. Credit Downgrade

2011-08-14

Standard & Poor's, which is one of the four major global credit raters, has downgraded the credit rating of the United States by a notch, lowering ...

Over Selling on S. Korean Bourse

2011-08-14

The Financial Services Commission forecasts Korean share prices will tumble further and as a counter measure, it has banned short stock selling ...

Naming of East Sea

2011-08-14

The U.S. State Department has said that the U.S. uses names decided by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The BGN standard name for the body of water ...

Stock Market Volatility

2011-08-12

South Korea’s stock market saw the largest drop in stock prices compared to other markets in the world in the wake of recent jitters sparked by Standard ...

Preview of the IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011

2011-08-12

International Court of Justice

2011-08-11

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is described as the following on the its Web site: It is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. ...

Employment Trends for July

2011-08-10

The number of employed people reached 24.63 million in July, or up around 335-thousand from the same period last year. The number of people with ...

US, European, Asian Stock Markets See Drops

2011-08-09

In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average of the New York Stock Exchange fell 634.76 points (5.55%) from last Friday to close at 10,809.85 points ...

Typhoon Muifa and Advisory

2011-08-08

Typhoon A typhoon is a strong tropical cyclone that originates from the southwest of the north Pacific ocean blows toward eastern Asia at a speed ...