LG Electronics Inc. on Friday estimated its second-quarter operating profit soared more than 60 percent from a year earlier on robust sales of its key products, beating market expectations.

Its operating profit came to 1.19 trillion won (US$868.1 mi…

Chaiyaphum, July 5 – If you don’t reserve, you won’t get to eat! Customers have been ordering Phulanka durian in Chaiyaphum since the beginning of the year. Orchard owners have been gradually cutting ripe fruit and delivering them, while durian orcha…

Bangkok, July 5 – Police are urgently questioning and checking the history of a middle-aged man who crashed a sedan into 6 cars, injuring 7 people, one of whom is seriously injured, and pressing 4 charges before granting him bail without having to po…

Hanwha Energy Corp., fully owned by the three sons of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn, said Friday it will pay some 180 billion won (US$131 million) to buy an 8 percent stake in the group’s holding company, Hanwha Corp.

Hanwha Energy will make …

A fire broke out at an ink manufacturing factory south of Seoul on Friday, but no casualties were reported, officials said.

The blaze occurred at 7:15 a.m. at the factory in Hwaseong, 45 kilometers south of Seoul, before firefighters brought the fla…

Police have booked two men for leaving deriding notes at the site of this week’s deadly car crash in central Seoul that killed nine people and injured seven others, officials said Friday.

On Monday night, a sedan driven by a 68-year-old darted in th…

Seoul shares extended gains late Friday morning as investors await U.S. jobs data this week for clues on the Federal Reserve’s future policy path.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 34 points, or 1.2 percent, to 2,858.94 …

Pathum Thani, July 5 – The Pathum Thani Election Commission has sent the results of the election for the provincial administrative organization president, in which Mr. Chan won the election, to the central EC for consideration and announcement of the…