Residents stroll through the streets of Ankang city, Shaanxi province. (Xinhua) Tuesday marks the third anniversary of the start of operations of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, a massive infrastructure program designed to transport water from the south of the country to the arid northern regions via three separate channels. So […]
Lee Haye-ah By Lee Haye-ah SEOUL, June 3 (Yonhap) — Polls opened in South Korea’s presidential election Tuesday, pitting a liberal candidate bent on punishing the forces responsible for former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law attempt against a conservative keen on stopping the recklessness of his rival. The election takes place exactly six months […]
Algeria”s first communications satellite is launched on Monday. JU ZHENHUA/XINHUA A Chinese-made communications satellite became the first “export” of such a spacecraft to an Arab country when it was launched by China on Monday for Algeria. A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of […]
mhlee@koreatimes.co.kr(KoreaTimes) Hyundai Motor and General Motors (GM) Korea are grappling with escalating demands from labor unions for substantial wage increases, compounding challenges posed by auto tariffs from the United States. Unions at both automakers are pressing for significant portions of company profits to be distributed as bonuses, despite mounting business uncertainties stemming from U.S. President […]
Greater integration will spur innovation and cultivate new engines of growth China will strengthen innovation by developing high-tech industries with military technologies to boost military-civil integration, a move that aims to cultivate new growth drivers and boost the economy, said a recent State Council guideline. This was one of the seven key tasks set by […]