South Korea police admit crowd surge response was ‘insufficient’
South Korea's police chief said Tuesday that officers had received multiple urgent reports of danger ahead of a deadly crowd crush at a Halloween event but…
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South Korea's police chief said Tuesday that officers had received multiple urgent reports of danger ahead of a deadly crowd crush at a Halloween event but…
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South Koreans flocked Monday to memorials honoring the 154 people killed in a crowd surge at Halloween celebrations, as authorities faced accusations that lax…
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At least 120 people were killed Saturday and some 100 were injured in a stampede in central Seoul when thousands crowded into narrow streets to celebrate…
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Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday, after thousands crowded into narrow streets in the city's Itaewon…
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North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, the South's military said, the latest in a blitz of launches that Washington and Seoul have…
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The United States committed itself to provide a $70 million grant to support the infrastructure improvements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, US…
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos on Wednesday expressed assurance that his administration is behind the Philippine Coast Guard in its goal to modernize.
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The members of the K-pop supergroup BTS will enlist in the military, their agency said Monday, putting an end to a years-long debate on whether the stars…
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K-pop mega-band BTS will reunite on Saturday to throw a free concert in Busan to support South Korea's bid to host the World Expo, four months after the…
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A Korean-Canadian filmmaker's poignant coming-of-age story has charmed audiences at Asia's top film festival, with the director telling AFP he made the movie…
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Manny Pacquiao called an exhibition fight in December against a South Korean YouTuber "my comeback to the ring," saying he wants to show he "is…
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Philippine Army Commanding General Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. recently met with Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Vice Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Toshikazu Yamane…
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North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, the South's military said, the latest in a blitz of launches amid tensions over US-led…
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US and Philippine marines stormed a beach near a disputed rocky outcrop in the South China Sea on Friday as part of joint military drills involving more than…
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Vietnam has asked Netflix to stop showing South Korean drama series "Little Women" in the Southeast Asian country, alleging the series distorted…
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A Myanmar junta court sentenced the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a further three years in prison Thursday while also jailing an Australian…
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South Korean police on Thursday announced the arrest of a 42-year-old woman accused of murdering two children whose remains were found in suitcases in New…
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North Korea has passed a law allowing it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike and declaring its status as a nuclear-armed state "irreversible",…
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