South Korea's trade commission said Thursday that it has decided to extend anti-dumping duties on Chinese float glass products, citing unfair price cuts.   The Korea Trade Commission said punitive duties of 12.04-36.01 percent will be maintained on Chinese imports for the next three years.   The decision follows investigations carried out following formal complaints raised by KCC Corp. and Han

   LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor, theviolet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen life was often upstagedby her stormy personal life, died Wednesday at age 79.   She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks,publicist Sally Morrison said.Elizabeth Taylor (AP-Yonhap News)   ``All her children were with her

South Koreans now spend more time online and on mobile phones than five years ago, a survey said Wednesday, the latest sign that the Internet has become a daily necessity for many people in one of the world's most wired countries.   South Koreans surf the Internet for an average of 37 minutes during weekdays, up 25 minutes from 2005, according to the findings of a research institute of KBS, a majo

Apple Inc. said Wednesday that it will roll out the iPad 2 tablet computer in South Korea next month amid worries that high U.S. demand and component shortage may delay overseas shipments.Apple will release the iPad 2 in 25 countries, including France and Germany, this Friday and in Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore next month, the company said in a press release. "We're experiencing amazing demand for iPad 2 in the U.S., and customers around the world have told us they can't wait to get thei

   TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's top government spokesman says the country's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant must eventually be scrapped.   Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano's comment Sunday was the first word from the government that the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex will have to be closed once its overheating reactors are brought under control.   Closing the plant is inevitable, since the seawater

   QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) - At least three miners were killed and 45 others trapped underground when explosions triggered a collapse in a coal mine in Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Sunday, officials said.   A total of 48 miners were working around 1,200 metres (1,300 yards) underground in the mine and the officials said hopes for the survival of the missing were slim.   The mine in the far-fl

   BUSAN (Yonhap) -- A KTX bullet train abruptly stopped for an unknown reason inside a tunnel shortly after departing from Busan for Seoul on Sunday, paralyzing Seoul-bound railway traffic for about an hour, railway officials said.   The train came to an unscheduled halt at 12:13 p.m. inside the 20.3 kilometer-long Geumjeong tunnel on the outskirts of Busan, the longest in the country.   The stop

   Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco clinched victory in the 2011 Seoul International Marathon here on Sunday, the event's organizers said.   Goumri finished first with a record of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 11 seconds.   South Korea's Jeong Jin-hyuk came in second at 2 hours, 9 minutes and 28 seconds and Russia's Oleg Kulkov finished third in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 13 seconds, they said. (Yonhap News)  

   BEIJING (AP) _ China on Sunday expressed ``regret'' over punishing airstrikes by the U.S. and European nations against Libya to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone.Supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi wave flags as they anticipate his arrival at his Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday. (AP-Yonhap News)   Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China ``consistently disagrees with

  The Supreme Court will hold its sentencing council meeting on Monday to finalize a new set of sentencing guidelines that call for increasing the maximum prison sentence for brutal murderers to 50 years, officials said Sunday.   Under the new guidelines prepared following last year's revision of the criminal law, those convicted of killing more than two people in a premeditated or cruel manner wi

 Yellow dust blowing over South Korea every year from China is believed to contain radioactive materials presumed to have been leaked from nuclear power plants in the neighboring country, a state think tank said Sunday.  Small amounts of cesium-137, a highly radioactive material, have been detected in the air and surface of South Korea between February and April, when the dust gets most serious, o

 Toyota is voluntarily recalling its Lexus vehicles in South Korea to address problems with removable floor mats that could cause accelerators to get stuck, the country's transportation ministry said Sunday. RX350 (Yonhap News)   Toyota Korea, the local distributor of the Japanese automaker, will recall 2,571 Lexus vehicles sold between February 2003 and July 2006. They include 2,292 Lexus RX330 c

    Japan on Saturday promised to keep South Korea up to date on the situation at a quake-stricken atomic power plant, an official said, amid fears of a potential nuclear disaster in the country.    Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto briefed his South Korean counterpart, Kim Sung-hwan, on efforts to cool down nuclear reactors and fuel rods at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant during a bilat

   U.S. investor Warren Buffett will arrive in South Korea Sunday on a trip that includes a meeting with President Lee Myung-bak.   The chairman and CEO of U.S. conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway will arrive in Daegu, a city located some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to attend the groundbreaking ceremony on Monday of a company owned and directed by Berkshire Hathaway.   Daegu-Tech, a metal-cutte

  Ninety-seven of the 102 Korean nationals who were reported missing in Japan's Iwate prefecture have been confirmed alive, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday.   However, the fate of the remaining five Koreans in Iwate and 90 others in Sendai has yet to be confirmed, a ministry official said.   Meanwhile, South Korea has sent 100 tons of bottled water and six thousand blankets in emergency aid

   WASHINGTON -- South Korea's Kolon Industries Inc. has won a U.S. appeals court decision obliging a lower court to examine DuPont's alleged monopolization of the U.S. market for para-aramid fibers used for high temperature-resisting goods.   "Whether Kolon's proffered relevant geographic market definition will hold up upon a fact-intensive inquiry remains to be seen," the U.S. Court of Appeals f

  This Saturday, the nation will mark the first anniversary of its worst peacetime naval disaster.   On the night of March 26 last year, a 1,200-ton South Korean Navy patrol ship, Cheonan, sank just south of the tense Yellow Sea border with North Korea, killing 46 of its 104 sailors.   The cause of the South Korean Navy's nightmarish experience, which severely stunned and saddened people across th

 South Korea will attend a U.N. meeting to be held in New York next week to discuss counter-measures against piracy off the coast of Somalia, the foreign ministry said Saturday.   "The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia" will be attended by 150 delegates from 50 countries and 10 international organizations, the ministry said in a statement. (Yonhap News)

   KYOTO, Japan -- South Korea, Japan and China agreed Saturday to work closely together in disaster management and nuclear safety as their foreign ministers met for annual talks that were heavily overshadowed by a devastating earthquake and nuclear crisis.   South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi began the

   North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has sent a verbal message to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of a noted South Korean industrialist who pioneered cross-border economic projects, the North's media said Saturday.    Chung Ju-yung, the then chairman of Hyundai Group, initiated a series of major economic projects in North Korea starting in 1998, including a sightseeing tour to scenic M