SEOUL, March 25 (Xinhua) — A candlelight rally was held once again in South Korea on Saturday night to demand truth behind the country’s worst maritime disaster that claimed over 300 lives three years ago. The 6,825-ton passenger ferry Sewol capsized and sank in waters off Jindo Island on April 16, 2014. After having lain […]

SEOUL, March 25 (Xinhua) — South Korean advocacy group activists gathered signatures of people on Saturday to prevent the “illegitimate” push to deploy a U.S. missile shield – Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) on their territory. At the Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul where candlelit rallies had been held to force former President Park […]

MANCHESTER, Britain, March 25 (Xinhua) — A National People’s Congress (NPC) delegation of legislators from southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday started a four-day trip in Britain where they will visit the local parliament and a university. The delegation, headed by Padma Choling, who is also a senior member of China’s NPC Standing Committee, […]

HONG KONG, March 25 (Xinhua) — All arrangements for the voting of the fifth-term chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) to be held on Sunday were ready, an electoral official said on Saturday. After visiting the main polling station in the Grand Hall at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Chairman […]

TOKYO, March 23 (Xinhua) — The embattled head of a nationalist school operator in Osaka Prefecture at the center of a controversial cut-price land deal will be summoned Thursday to both chambers of parliament to give sworn testimony. The land deal with the government has implicated senior politicians including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Moritomo Gakuen […]

ST. PETERSBURG, March. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Russia has decided to join a tax-free shopping system and foreign tourists are expected to obtain a refund of 18 percent value added tax. “Vesti” channel reported that Russian officials discussed details of this initiative on Wednesday, reports Xinhua. To obtain a refund, a foreign citizen will need to […]

WASHINGTON, March 23 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have developed a low-cost and easy-to-use smartphone device that can accurately measure semen quality in seconds. More than 45 million couples worldwide are affected by infertility, but current standard methods for evaluating semen quality, which require testing in a clinical setting, are expensive, labor-intensive and […]

WASHINGTON, March 23 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday it’s moving ahead with a long-term demonstration of laser communications that eventually “could become the high-speed internet of the sky.” The mission, known as Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and scheduled for launch in summer 2019, “recently successfully passed a key decision point review […]

CAIRO, March 23 (NsNewsWire) — The U.S. ban of large-sized electronic devices on inbound flights from Middle East has triggered confusion and outrage in some listed countries, while Britain followed the U.S. ban with slight difference in its list. Turkish government on Wednesday sent a letter to the U.S. administration demanding removal from the ban […]