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North and South Korean players fight for the ball during their AFC Women’s 2018 Asian Cup Group B qualifying football match at the Kim Il-Sung stadium in Pyongyang. (AFP)South Korea’s flag flew and its anthem sounded in Pyongyang on April 7 as its women’s football team played out a 1-1 draw with their neighbours, in the first ever competitive soccer match between the two countries hosted by the North. / AFP PHOTO / KIM Won-Jin
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The logo of Samsung is seen at a Samsung showroom in Seoul on April 7, 2017. JUNG Yeon-Je / AFP
Samsung Electronics Expects 48% Jump in Q1 Profits
Embattled Samsung Electronics on Friday forecast profits to jump by half in the first quarter, despite a smartphone recall fiasco and the arrest of its de facto head Lee Jae-Yong who appeared in court at the start of his trial for embezzlement and perjury. The...Caption:
A woman walks past a television screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on April 5, 2017. JUNG Yeon-Je / AFP
Seoul Test Fires Missile amid ‘Little Progress’ in Reining in North Korea
South Korea has successfully test-fired a home-developed ballistic missile with a range long enough to hit any part of North Korea, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday. It comes a day after the North test-fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast...Caption:
A Samsung logo in Seoul. AFP file photo
Samsung Backs Away from Planned Split
The world’s biggest smartphone maker Samsung on Friday backed away from a planned corporate restructuring after the company was shaken by a shambolic recall and was embroiled in South Korea’s wide-ranging corruption scandal. At the Samsung Electronics...Caption:
US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, shake hands at the end of a Beijing press conference. (Reuters)