The South Korean government has announced it will reduce indirect subsidies for biomass energy. The policy reform comes after ...

JAKARTA — An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive greenhouse gas emissions and ...

South Korea's government hopes a slew of new and upcoming policies will make a difference in its fight to reverse a looming population crisis. The nation's fertility rate, the lowest in the world ...

JAKARTA – South Koreans are apparently some of the harshest people in the world when it comes to their presidents. Last week, lawmakers moved to remove President Yoon Suk-yeol from office following ...

On the first Election Day after Dobbs, PlanC, a nonprofit that provides information about access to abortion pills, posted a TikTok video encouraging people to vote to protect reproductive rights.

South Korean officials have vowed to find out what caused a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operated by Jeju Air to crash into flames as it attempted to land over the weekend, killing all but two of ...

Police forensics personnel and National Bureau of Investigation officials are seen by a wall as they work at the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed and burst into flames at ...

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A Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea became the country’s deadliest plane disaster in decades Sunday, killing 179 people with only two survivors and shocking the country and world, prompting an ...

After two leaders were impeached in as many weeks, a deadly plane crash has prompted South Korea’s feuding political camps to temporarily halt a protracted power struggle. In the immediate ...

The police are investigating whether President Yoon Suk Yeol tried to lead an insurrection when he declared martial law and plunged the country into crisis. By Qasim Nauman and Choe Sang-Hun ...

As South Korea mourns the 179 victims of its worst-ever air disaster, aviation experts have raised questions over a wall or “dune” that Jeju Air flight 7C2216 had slammed into after landing ...