The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Thursday.

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's corporate watchdog said Thursday that it fined the nation's four major oil refineries a combined 434.8 billion won (US$442.7 million) for colluding in their

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- Military officers from South Korea and the United States were in discussions to hold their first joint exercise aimed at testing their ability to cope with bioterrorism ac

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- In an apparent criticism of local industries' price-setting systems, President Lee Myung-bak said Thursday that industries should set prices for domestic consumers in a tr

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korean defectors in South Korea complained this week against a government move to regulate their money transfers to their families left behind in their impoverished

TOKYO, May 26 (Bernama) – Prime Minister Najib Razak has appealed to Asia’s diverse nations to hasten regional integration, so that they can stand united not only to climb the development ladder, b

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SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea's third-largest steelmaker, said Thursday that its first-quarter earnings rose 11 percent from a year earlier on the back of expanded o

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.28 percent higher late Thursday morning, helped by foreign buying and gains in exporter blue chips, analysts said.

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korean scientists said Thursday that they have developed a way to allow drugs to reach the brain that could lead to a safe and cheap treatment method for various neu