Ipoh (Malaysia): South Korea thrashed much-fancied Pakistan 4-0 to register their first win in four matches at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Monday. Setting a brisk pace, the South Koreans benefited from Pakistan's erratic strikers, who missed chances galore in the first half. Nam Hyun-Woo, who converted two penalty corners for the Koreans, opened the scoring in the 18th minute on their second penalty corner. Pakistan came...
06:03 PM, May 28, 2012
Ipoh: After a thrilling win against Korea, courtesy a last-minute goal by SK Uthappa, it was difficult for India hockey coach Michael Nobbs to hide his excitement after the disappointment of losing 1-5 to New Zealand in the opening match. "I'm obviously delighted with the result. The victory from a last-minute goal made my heart's pacemaker begin functioning again," Nobbs said. "We made a silly error to concede the penalty...
08:40 PM, May 25, 2012
SK Uthappa's last-minute strike helped India to a much-needed 2-1 victory against Korea at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia, on Friday. The match turned out to be a classic hockey encounter with both the teams hungry for their first win - after India lost to New Zealand and Koreans drew with Malaysia on Thursday. India managed to get into lead as early as the 12th...
07:22 PM, May 25, 2012
India took on Korea in their second match of the 2012 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and won 2-1 in the dying minutes as IBNLive.com brought to you live updates of all the action from Ipoh, Malaysia. It was a much-needed win for India, thanks to scorers Sandeep Singh and SK Uthappa. They will now take on Great Britain on May 27. ...
05:03 PM, May 25, 2012
Washington: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hungary. Banerjee made the sensational charge in an interview to the Washington Post. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) rubbished the allegation. Banerjee told the Post how her "Marxist political opponents were plotting with Maoist rebels to discredit and kill her". They were...
06:44 PM, May 23, 2012
Seoul: South Korea will chemically castrate a serial rapist who preyed on young girls, the first time it has employed the punishment under legislation passed in 2010, Korean media reported on Wednesday. The 45-year-old offender, identified only as Park, was convicted of four rapes or attempted rapes on children under the age of 13 between 1984 and 2002, the Joongang Daily reported. The legislation is intended for use against people...
01:22 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a US institute claimed on Tuesday. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site began last summer and reflects North Korean determination to expand its rocket program. The US and other nations...
03:58 AM, May 23, 2012
London: According to a poll conducted for BBC World Service, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel are the most negatively rated countries in the world. About 24,090 people worldwide participated in the survey. Citizens from 22 countries were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone between December 6, 2011 and February 17, 2012. Polling was conducted by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country, together with the...
11:13 AM, May 19, 2012
Seoul: North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North reported on Thursday. Based on April 30 satellite images, work halted in December at the reactor had now re-started, said the website, run by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and former US State Department official Joel Wit....
05:29 PM, May 17, 2012
Malacca (Malaysia): Captain Akashdeep Singh came to his side's rescue with a golden goal as India defeated South Korea 2-1 to bag a consolation bronze medal at the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament in Malacca on Sunday. After a barren first half, You Seungji put the Koreans ahead in the 47th minute with a immaculate penalty corner conversion. But India replied back seven minutes later through a field effort from...
06:13 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-six-year-old Shin Dong-Hyuk may not be as famous as Dith Pran, the Cambodian labour camp survivor in the 1984 screen drama, 'The Killing Fields', but his true survival story as a condemned political prisoner in North Korea who escaped is as powerful as it is unbelievable. Shin, who was born in one of the six sprawling Gulag style no-exit political prisons located 55 miles (88 km) north of...
12:44 PM, May 09, 2012
Seoul: South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said on Monday. The capsules were made in north-eastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said. Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or...
09:43 AM, May 08, 2012
Beijing: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for annual talks with Chinese leaders that risk being upstaged by the case of a blind dissident said to be under US protection in the Chinese capital. The fate of legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest while under watch by scores of guards, has distracted from the planned two-day talks, likely to feature trade and...
06:02 AM, May 03, 2012
Seoul: Jeev Milkha Singh played a flawless three-under 69 and finished tied 25th as Austria's Bernd Wiesberger (68) left his rivals trailing to win the Ballantine's Championship in Seoul on Sunday. The 26-year-old Austrian signed off with a four-day total of 18-under-par 270 to lift his maiden Tour title. While Jeev totalled five-under 283, Anirban Lahiri (73) was tied 49th at even par 288 and Digvijay Singh (73) was tied...
11:14 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Pyongyang: In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography. The country is famous for organising crowds of thousands of people using coloured cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different. This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the...
08:14 AM, Apr 29, 2012
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