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Manu Bhaker along with Sarabjot Singh have ignited hope of adding another medal in the kitty.

South Korean prosecutors have indicted an unnamed man they suspect of orchestrating a $1.3 million crypto mining-themed “scam.”

equity markets to record highs in the current financial year. The benchmark Nifty 50 index has delivered 10.5% returns since 1 April, and has outperformed the equity indices of several countries, including China, Mexico, Brazil, France, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Germany, the UK and Hong Kong. The benchmark indices of these countries have delivered returns between -8.2% and 2.9%.

Manu Bhaker was in silver medal position. A 0.1-point lead over her South Korean rival Kim Ye-ji, and assured of a medal. That’s when it dawned on all of us.

Across the region, policymakers had brought down teenage pregnancies dramatically. The drop in birth rates, which occurred over the span of a single generation, was a stunning success. That was until it carried on.

South China Sea, escalating fighting in Myanmar, and regional rivalry. Meetings on Saturday will bring together in the same room allies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations — including the United States, China, Russia, Japan, India and Australia — to bolster their relationships and discuss key security issues and other regional affairs.

SEOUL—Inside the cavernous factories of Samsung Electronics, rows of white machines pump out memory chips around the clock, with help from just a few workers. Until this month, Kim Jae-won was one of them. Now he is on an indefinite strike with thousands of colleagues in South Korea.

Raynald Aeschlimann, president and chief executive officer of watch company Omega, owned by the Swatch Group AG, spoke exclusively to Mint virtually about India as a market and the promise it holds. For the entire group, South Korea, India and the United Arab Emirates also considerably outperformed the previous year. The shift away from China—the largest consumer of luxury in the world—has impacted Swatch, Omega's parent, which reported lower half-yearly sales from a year ago.

Min Hee Jin has become synonymous with controversy. The CEO of K-Pop company ADOR and the brain behind 4th generation pop sensation New Jeans.

The second season of one of the most awaited South Korean television series is all set for a grand premiere!

Indo-Korean Startup Community Meetup, at the Embassy of India in Seoul, attended by over 80 participants including 50+ founders, investors, academia, government officials, media, and industry experts. The Circle FC team also met and engaged in a discussion with H.E. Amit Kumar, the Ambassador of India to South Korea on steps to strengthen India-Korea startup cooperation

Asian shares have dropped morning trading, with Tokyo’s benchmark losing more than 1,000 points at one point, as pessimism set in over the Wall Street nose-dive

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Bithumb, a leading virtual asset platform, has announced the withdrawal of its proposed 4% annual increase in deposit usage fees. This decision follows additional review items discovered while complying with the Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

South Korean prosecutors have arrested the founder of the country’s tech giant Kakao Corp. on suspicion of stock price rigging during his company’s takeover of a major K-pop agency last year

The likely new head of the top South Korean financial regulator says he is “cautious” about letting corporations invest in crypto.

Wall Street as investors looked beyond Joe Biden ending his reelection campaign to focus on the start of the tech earnings season. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index snapped a three-day decline, as shares from Japan to South Korea and Australia rose at the open. That followed a 1.1% jump in the S&P 500, ahead of earnings from Tesla Inc. and Alphabet Inc. due later Tuesday.

dollar slipped and Asian stocks fell after Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. China’s central bank cut a key short-term interest rate. A Bloomberg gauge of the US currency’s strength fell 0.2% Monday after the US President bowed to pressure from the Democrats and pulled out of the November election race, while the Mexican peso climbed. US stock futures gained.

South Korean drama viewers were sent into confusion on July 20 and July 21 after XRP hackers seized control of two top YouTube channels.

South Korean public was advised to keep an eye out for falling objects and to notify police and military authorities if any balloons fell to the ground.North Korea's latest balloon launch threatens to increase tensions on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea previously warned that if North Korea continued its provocations, such as balloon launches, it would conduct more extensive loudspeaker broadcasts and take other tougher measures.Since late May, North Korea has flown several balloons in a series of launch ceremonies, dropping bits of cloth, cigarette butts, waste batteries, and even manure over South Korea, causing no substantial damage.North Korea said the initial balloons were flown in reaction to South Korean activists conveying political leaflets to the North using their own balloons.

technology outage caused thousands of flights worldwide to be canceled or delayed, the ripple effect from the disruption left airports crowded with passengers and airlines working to get planes and crews back in position. «These flights, they run so tightly, so back to back, that even after a root cause is addressed, you can still be feeling those impacts throughout the day,» said Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, in an appearance on CNBC.