Parliament to investigate rice subsidies scam
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly is to launch an independent
probe into a mounting scandal over ranking government officials' alleged
S. Korean adoptee abandoned in Hong Kong finds new family: media
Hong Kong, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- An eight-year-old Korean girl abandoned by her
adoptive Dutch diplomat parents in Hong Kong has been placed with a new family, a
S. Korean rice subsidies top 990 bln won in 2007: gov't
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BOK chief urges caution in tackling price pressures
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- The chief of the Bank of Korea (BOK) urged central
banks around the globe Monday to be cautious in tackling inflation pressure as
Samsung's heir apparent reassigned to China, source says
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- The only son of former Samsung Group chairman Lee
Kun-hee was transferred to China on Monday as part of a shakeup of the group's
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis loses patent lawsuit in S. Korea
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA has lost a legal battle with a local company Boryung Pharmaceutical Co.
S. Korea, France launch working holiday program
SEOUL, Oct.
The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR)
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency, at 11:00 a.m.
S. Korean won soars on financial stabilization measures
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