Seoul Metro Line No. 4 skips Hansung University Station due to protest by disability rights group

A southbound train on Seoul Metro Line No. 4 skipped Hansung University Station on Wednesday morning due to a protest organized by a disability rights group.

2025-11-12

Online brouhaha ensues after woman throws coffee at anti-Chinese protesters in Seoul

A video showing a woman dousing anti-China protesters with coffee in downtown Seoul has set off a debate on social media.

2025-11-10

Pentagon deploying California National Guard to Portland to get around block by federal judge

The U.S. military said on Sunday it is reassigning about 200 federalized members of the California National Guard from the Los Angeles area to Portland, Oregon, in a new tactic to fulfill plans announced by President Donald Trump.

2025-10-06

Court allows anti-China slogans at rally, but says 'not condoning hate speech'

A court has blocked a police order prohibiting the use of anti-Chinese slogans during rallies organized by conservative civic group Freedom Univ., while stressing that the decision does not amount to permitting hate speech, threats or violence.

2025-10-02

Police restrict use of 'anti-China' slogans for Freedom Univ's rally on Oct. 3

Police have restricted the use of “anti-China” slogans for the Oct. 3 National Foundation Day rally planned by the conservative civic group Freedom Univ, citing previous friction caused by slogans the group has used at earlier anti-China rallies.

2025-10-01

Right-wing civic groups hold anti-China rally in Seoul

Protesters from ultra-right civic groups held an anti-China rally Sunday, chanting slogans calling for the release of now-jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law bid.

2025-09-28

Death toll in Nepal’s antigraft protests jumps to 72

The death toll from last week's anticorruption protests in Nepal has risen to 72, the country's health ministry said on Sunday, as search teams continued to recover bodies from shopping malls and other buildings damaged in the unrest.

2025-09-14

Curfew is lifted and calm returns to Nepal in wake of mass protests that killed at least 51 people

Nepalese authorities lifted the curfew in the country's capital and surrounding areas on Saturday as calm returned following the appointment of the Himalayan nation's first woman prime minister in the wake of protests this week.

2025-09-14

FSS employees wear black to protest gov't plan to restructure financial watchdog agencies

Hundreds of employees at the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) wore black to work on Tuesday to protest the government’s plan to restructure financial oversight agencies.

2025-09-09

Nineteen killed in Nepal in 'Gen Z' protest over social media ban, corruption

At least 19 people in two cities died on Monday in Nepal's worst unrest in decades, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger.