Smartphones drive record Samsung profit Canada Dot Com | SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller rivals. | The South Korean firm, the world's ...
Hyundai Motor reports record $7.2B profit for 2011 my SA | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hyundai Motor's net profit jumped 35 percent to a record high last year after selling more than 4 million cars for the first time. | The company's 2011 earnings reached 8.1 trillion won ($7.2 billion), up from 6 trillion won a year earlier, the automaker said Thursday i...
North Korea Warns South but Accepts Food Aid The New York Times | SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned on Friday that a South Korean military drill around front-line islands could lead to a “full-scale war” as South Korean trucks crossed the border carrying private food aid for North Korean c...
Tin pot dictator's son best hope for new Korean calm, writes Kevin Rudd The Daily Telegraph Australia | IN LATIN America, banana republics - with tin pot dictators backed by military juntas - are a thing of the past. | In the Middle East, we are seeing dramatic and unexpected change that is bringing new freedoms. Even in Africa, the sort of crazy but...
Amtrak's Hiawatha line breaks ridership record Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Annual ridership on Amtrak's Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line cracked the 800,000 mark for the first time last year, the state Department of Transportation reported Friday. | The Hiawatha provided a record 823,163 rides in 2011, up 4% from 792,848 ...
Tosa to take a stand on power line placement Tuesday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Alderman Dennis McBride has drafted a resolution that opposes two proposed high-voltage power line routes that would run through Wauwatosa neighborhoods and green space, and he's hoping the city's Community Development Committee will back it Tuesday ...
'Path open' for North Korea talks, neighbours say BBC News A "path is open" for a return to stalled nuclear talks with North Korea, officials from the US, Japan and South Korea have said. | The comments came after top diplomats met in Wash...
Barry Manilow to play Milwaukee Theatre April 28 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel One of the most successful pop balladeers of all time, Barry Manilow, will bring his show to the Milwaukee Theatre at 8 p.m. April 28. | Manilow is touring behind his latest album, "15 Minutes," his first album of original songs in 10 years...
Irish may try IRA veteran over North Korean scam CNBC | DUBLIN - An Irish Republican Army veteran long accused of laundering counterfeit U.S. $100 bills on behalf of North Korea could face trial in Ireland, a Dublin judge announced Friday. | High Court Justice John Edwards said he has forwarded an evide...
North Korea warns South but accepts food aid The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet | SEOUL (South Korea): North Korea warned on Friday that a South Korean military drill around front-line islands could lead to a "full-scale war" as South Korean trucks crossed the border carrying private food aid for North...
Seoul sees chance for better ties with North Korea Jakarta Globe South Korea sees an opportunity for better relations with North Korea as its new leader takes power, President Lee Myung-Bak said Monday, while vowing to respond strongly to any provocations. | "Our biggest goal is the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula," President Lee Myung-Bak said in a televised New Year address. "We are leaving the win...
