Russia and Turkey finalized the S-400 air defense system deal worth about 2.5 billion US dollars in 2017, and the delivery was completed in 2019. Turkey is the first NATO member to purchase such a system from Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed extending to first-time mothers maternity benefits previously offered only to women with two or more children. Welfare benefits would be available to children aged 3 to 7 in low-income families, and free meals would be available in the first four years of school, news reports say.
SEOUL - Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest automaker, posted a double-digit expansion in operating profit due mainly to a so-called low base effect, a regulatory filing showed Thursday.
SINGAPORE - Polling stations in Singapore opened at 8:00 am local time on Friday for the country's general election.
Ryan Baker, professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said the pandemic has transformed university study for both students and teachers.
SEOUL - South Korea's sports ministry on Wednesday made an official request to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the so-called 'rising sun' flag from being flown at next year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
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Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin also offered his congratulations to both NASA and Elon Musk, the boss of the private aerospace company SpaceX that built the Crew Dragon capsule.
SHENZHEN -- Ping An Bank, a Shenzhen-listed lender controlled by Ping An Insurance, reported a 14.8-percent year-on-year growth in net profit for the first quarter of 2020.
SHENZHEN -- If you feel like you are losing your hair, you are not alone. For those born in the 1990s, "almost going bald" has been a catchphrase on Chinese social media for years.
SAN FRANCISCO -- US social media giant Facebook said Friday that its 50 million users could be directly affected by a new security bug found by its security team a few days ago.