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The speaker of Saudi Arabia’s consultative parliament on Monday stressed the importance of openness and transparency in fighting against the Middle East …

The South Korean government assured foreign diplomats here Monday that it is making every effort to bring the outbreak of a viral respiratory illness under …

Hundreds of Japanese pundits urged their Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday to offer his own apology for Japan’s wartime crimes and atrocities.   The …

President Park Geun-hye said Monday that she will give full authority to medical experts over the MERS virus, the latest in a series of efforts to contain the …

North Korea is not likely to shut down an inter-Korean joint industrial park in the North due to a row over Pyongyang’s unilateral wage hike, a South …

The spreading MERS virus may subside as early as this week as it has not yet spread to local communities and is confined to hospitals, Health Minister Moon …

A ruling party lawmaker was summoned by prosecutors Monday over suspicions that he took illegal political funds from a businessman during the 2012 presidential …

China’s top legislator Zhang Dejiang will make a three-day visit to South Korea this week on cementing bilateral ties, a diplomatic source said …

The nominee for prime minister pledged Monday to revamp South Korea’s disease control system after the recent spread of the Middle East Respiratory …

The Seoul government said Monday there were no reports related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome in North Korea over the weekend, and no changes have …