India is faltering as an investment destination because of significant policy mistakes and stock prices there will slide if the nation's credit rating is cut, according to Mark Mobius, one of the worl

Samsung Electronics posted a record $5.2 billion quarterly profit as it shifted over 20,000 Galaxy smartphones an hour in January-March, outselling Apple's iPhone in a duel for the lucrative high end

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-Hee, currently embroiled in an inheritance dispute with his siblings, remains South Korea's richest man, according to a Forbes magazine ranking published on Thursd

Apparently new long-range ballistic missiles displayed at a North Korean military parade this month were mock-ups, according to two German experts who termed the exercise "a nice dog and pony show".

South Korea's Posco, the world's third largest steelmaker by output, said on Friday first-quarter net profit dropped 42 per cent year-on-year due to price cuts and higher raw material costs.

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A South Korean footballer who was banned for life over a match-fixing scandal has taken his own life, police said on Monday, the third suicide linked to the controversy that erupted last year.

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North Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate programme from the one that led to a failed rocket launch this week, a South Korean TV station reported on Saturday.

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Polls opened Wednesday in South Korea's closely contested parliamentary elections, seen as a key test of sentiment ahead of December's presidential poll.

Voting began at 6:00 am (2100 GMT) at 13,470

Samsung Electronics, the world's top technology firm by revenue, posted record quarterly profit of $5.15 billion on booming sales of its Galaxy smartphones and the Note, a mini-tablet and phone.

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Satellite imagery has revealed that North Korea's launch of a controversial rocket is imminent.

Preparations for blast-off sometime between April 12-16 are further advanced than previously believed,