Tag: S/Korea
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Ship with 9 crewmen capsizes off S.Korea’s islets
A ship with nine crewmen capsized in waters off South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, meaning ‘Solitary Island’, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday citing the South Korean coast guard. The coast guard said the 72-ton ship tipped over at about 2:24 p.m. local time (0524 GMT) in international waters some 168 kilometres northeast of the…
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S/Korea prepares extra budget worth $20trn won over Covid-19 – Minister
South Korea’s government is preparing an extra budget bill worth around 20 trillion won (16.7 billion dollars) to fight against the new coronavirus, the interior minister said on Monday. “The government plans to submit a supplementary budget bill to the National Assembly on Thursday as it struggles to contain the fast spread of COVID-19 amid…