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Seoul Urges North Korea To Respond To Plan To Repatriate Remains Of National Found In South
MENAFN
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July 29, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Seoul, July 29 (IANS) South Korea on Tuesday called on North Korea to respond to its plan to repatriate the remains of a North Korean national found on the southern side of the inter-Korean maritime border.The remains of the body...
A drink to your health! Hong Kong duo revive Chinese medicinal wines
South China Morning Post
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July 29, 2025
Peek along the bottom shelves of Hong Kong supermarkets and grocery stores and you might see a category of booze once popular with both rich and poor: medicinal wines. Yellow or rice wines infused with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)...
Enough apologies: How Japan is shaking its price hike phobia
Channel News Asia
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July 29, 2025
TOKYO: When Japanese ice pop maker Akagi Nyugyo raised its prices a meagre 10 yen in 2016, its sombre-faced management appeared in a one-minute commercial, bowing silently in apology as a melancholy folk song lamented the inevitability of price...
North Korea Says Kim-Trump Ties Are ‘Not Bad’ but It’s Not Giving up Its Nuclear Weapons
Asharq Al-Awsat
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July 29, 2025
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed the US's intent to resume diplomacy on North Korea’s denuclearization, as she urged Washington to accept her country as a nuclear weapons state and find a new approach to restart...
Trump reaffirms U.S. commitment to safeguarding Korean Peninsula in armistice anniv. message
Yonhap News Agency
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his country's "steadfast" commitment to safeguarding the Korean Peninsula, underscoring the two countries' strong alliance in the face of "the evils of communism" in the region....
asia North Korea says Trump must accept new nuclear reality
Asiaone
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL — North Korea said on Tuesday (July 29) the United States must accept that reality has changed since the countries' summit meetings in the past, and no future dialogue would end its nuclear programme, state media KCNA reported. Kim Yo-jong,...
India is showing signs of trusting China again. Beijing sees a window of weakness
The Print
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July 29, 2025
Recent weeks have seen increasing signs of growing convergence and a deepening thaw in India-China relations. This has occurred despite China’s support for Pakistan during Op Sindoor, the initiation of construction on the controversial Yarlung...
North Korea warns US against pushing it to give up nukes
The Manila Times
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea — The powerful sister of North Korea's leader warned the United States on Tuesday against pursuing denuclearisation, after a White House official was quoted as saying President Donald Trump was open to dialogue with Kim Jong Un....
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is not seeking summit with Xi, but may visit China
The Hindu
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July 29, 2025
File photo of U.S. President Donald Trump with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) that he was not seeking a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but added that he...
Courting China
Trinidad Express
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Is China taking over the Caribbean? This question echoes across policy circles, academic debates, and public discourse in the region. Over the past two decades, China’s growing footprint in the Caribbean has become increasingly visible through...
Dodam Korean set to launch in East Brunswick Village
Hospitality Magazine
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July 29, 2025
When Jaekyung (Jacky) Kim and her husband Jin Jung moved into the apartments in East Brunswick Village (EBV), it spurred on their dream of opening a modern Korean restaurant. With encouragement from the village’s security guard, Charlie, the duo...
S. Korea pays compensation to U.S. hedge fund Mason
Yonhap News Agency
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's government has paid 74.6 billion won (about US$54 million) to U.S. hedge fund Mason Capital following an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) ruling that ordered it to pay compensation over losses from...
Donald Trump Quashes China Summit Rumors: 'No Interest'
Newsweek
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July 29, 2025
By Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the...
South Korean shares little changed ahead of US trade talks
Business Recorder
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL: Round-up of South Korean financial markets: South Korean shares struggled for momentum on Tuesday as investors refrained from taking big bets ahead of the country’s trade negotiations with the United States. The won weakened, while the...
N. Korea: U.S. Must Acknowledge Nuclear Status Before Any Summit
MENAFN
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July 29, 2025
(MENAFN) North Korea urged the United States on Tuesday to formally acknowledge its status as a nuclear-armed nation before considering any future summit with President Donald Trump, according to a local news outlet. Kim Yo Jong, sister of North...
N. Korea supplies 6.5 mln shells, 600 weapons systems to Russia: Ukraine
Yonhap News Agency
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July 29, 2025
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has supplied around 6.5 million artillery shells of various calibers to Russia to support its war with Ukraine, along with 600 missile launchers and weapons systems, a Ukrainian intelligence agency has said....
Kim Yo Jong spurns Seoul’s overtures, and US targets North Korean laptop farms
NK News
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July 29, 2025
North Korea broke its relative silence about the new South Korean administration of Lee Jae-myung on Monday, with the DPRK leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong dismissing the president’s peace overtures and attacking Seoul’s alliance with the U.S. NK News...
South Korea’s Ruling, Opposition Parties Clash Over Stablecoin Regulation
Decrypt
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July 29, 2025
In brief South Korea’s ruling and opposition parties introduced competing stablecoin bills, diverging on whether to ban interest payments. Both proposals grant emergency powers to financial regulators and require full reserve backing for...
South Korea: Health fees projected to skyrocket amid ageing crisis
Asia Insurance Review
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The cost burden of South Korea's National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) is projected to climb steeply in the coming decades, potentially reaching one-quarter of individuals' incomes due to the country's rapidly ageing population and increasing...
Building assets, producing critical minerals and slashing dependency on China
The Market Herald
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July 28, 2025
Join our daily newsletter At The Bell to receive exclusive market insights Almonty Industries Inc. (ASX:AII; NASDAQ:ALM) is building real assets, producing critical minerals, and slashing Western dependency on China. Meanwhile, MP Materials basks...