27 May 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited SEOUL, May 27 (Reuters) – South Korea is encouraged by North Korea’s softer stance on talks about its nuclear ambitions and there are signs Pyongyang may be prepared to reach a deal, Seoul’s top foreign policy adviser told Reuters on Tuesday. Ban Ki-moon, who…
17 October 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters) – South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun dismissed North Korea’s threat to prove it has a nuclear deterrent as pre-talks bluster on Friday and said Pyongyang was really after regime survival and aid rather than atomic weapons. In an interview at the…
10 June 1987 Reuters News English (c) 1987 Reuters Limited MANILA, June 10 – The Philippines’ Omnibus Investment Code was approved by the cabinet and a final draft will soon be prepared for decree by President Corazon Aquino, Trade and Industry Secretary Jose Concepcion said. “The cabinet approved the investment code in principle and within…
I had my epiphany on a Seoul subway in 2004. All around me, young men and women rode to work silently, mesmerised by television programmes streaming live into their handsets. Digital Multimedia Broadcasting was just starting off, but South Korea was already one of the most wired nations on earth — more than 70 per…