The Singaporean woman left in a vegetative state after a botched gastroscopy in South Korea has returned to Singapore just in time for Chinese New Year. After months of waiting, Ms Tong Ming Yan, 35,

SEOUL: The Singaporean woman left in a vegetative state after a botched gastroscopy in South Korea has returned to Singapore just in time for Chinese New Year.

White House, addressing concerns at Seoul, says Washington’s demand for North Korea to denuclearize is unchanged after Trump seems to recognize

THE Singa­porean woman left in a vegetative state after a botched gastroscopy in South Korea has returned to Singapore just in time for Chinese New Year.

THE number of foreign workers in Japan reached a new high, underscoring the country’s growing reliance on people from overseas to address its chronic labour shortage. Read more at The Business Times.

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Ju Ji-hoon, who was last seen playing a doctor in the 2013 Korean drama Medical Top Team, calls The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call “the most exhausting project of his 20-year career”.

Japan had a record 2.3 million foreign workers as of October 2024, marking a 12.4 per cent increase from the previous year, according to labour ministry figures released on Jan 31. The number of businesses employing at least one foreign worker also hit a record high of around 342,000, up 7.3 per cent from a year ago, the report showed.

South Korea's exports are expected to have fallen for the first time in 16 months on U.S. tariff uncertainty and a slower tech sector, a Reuters poll showed, underscoring risks for trade-reliant economies from the Trump administration's policies.

South Korea's acting Defense Minister Kim Seon-ho and new U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held their first phone call Friday and reaffirmed the steadfast alliance between the two nations, Seoul's defense ministry said.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol tried to demolish his country’s democracy. In a shocking late-night television address, Yoon declared “emergency martial law” and put the country under military rule.

Korean Air will initially fly its long-range A350-900s on short-haul flights to Japan before flying to Europe later in the year.