Tag Archives: South Korea

After 6 years the first case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in the state of California. This has sparked fears of illness and has already started to cause damage the industry. A major South Korean retailer has suspended the sale of American beef. A California dairy cow recently tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known ... Read More »

A small aircraft crashed in northeastern China close to the border with North Korea, killing its pilot and fueling speculation Wednesday about its origin. China’s official Xinhua news agency said in several brief dispatches that the plane, which went down Tuesday afternoon at Lagu Township in Fushun County, “might be” from North Korea. It confirmed the death of the pilot ... Read More »

An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company’s contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks. Global supply manager Paul Shin Devine was charged with accepting $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories in a federal indictment and a civil suit, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Devine ... Read More »

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he is willing to visit North Korea to defuse tensions over the communist country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. “Whatever I can do as the secretary-general I am willing to do, including my own visit to Pyongyang at this time,” Ban told a news conference. “I need to find out when would be ... Read More »