SEOUL: South Korean shares rose more than 2 per cent on Wednesday (Jun 4) to their highest in 10 months, as liberal ...

South Korea's center-left Lee Jae-myung was declared president Wednesday after winning a snap election, taking the helm of a ...

Lee's decisive victory in Tuesday's snap election over Kim Moon-soo, the candidate for the conservative People Power Party, ...

The foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed at a recent meeting to deepen Belt and Road cooperation, ...

South Korea's new president, Lee Jae-myung, has secured a storming victory, but his honeymoon will barely last the day. The ...

A new biography of Xi Zhongxun shines light on both the suffering caused by one-party rule and the loyalty that keeps such a ...

Lee Jae-myung’s hardscrabble path to the South Korean presidency mirrors his country’s stratospheric rise from grinding ...

South Koreans elected Lee Jae-myung as president Tuesday, choosing a liberal whose vision to reshape his nation’s foreign ...

Panama is facing one of its most intense social crises since the return to democracy in 1989, with nearly 40 days of ...

President-elect Lee has said he will ‘strengthen’ the Korean-American alliance, but he’s also expected to want to improve ...

The debilitating political vacuum that has reigned in Seoul since South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment on ...