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South Korea’s government officials to donate 30 % of their salaries to COVID-19 efforts

Updated as of Mar 31 08:52 AM

Plus, a Nobel laureate predicts the world will recover faster than previously thought, and developments in Japan and the US in finding a cure spark hope. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

How South Korea Flattened the Curve

Max Fisher and Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times
Updated as of Mar 24 11:42 AM

South Korea is one of only two countries with large outbreaks, alongside China, to flatten the curve of new infections. And it has done so without China’s draconian restrictions on speech and movement, or economically damaging lockdowns like those in Europe and the U.S. Read more »

Coronavirus spoils NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 20 07:32 PM

WASHINGTON - The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA's plan to return Americans to the moon by 2024, as the space agency chief on Thursday ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an employee tested positive for the illness. Read more »

South Korea reports fewer than 100 new coronavirus cases for a 3rd day

Reuters
Posted at Mar 17 12:15 PM

South Korea reported 84 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, marking a third day in a row that the county has reported fewer than 100 new infections amid growing hopes that Asia's largest outbreak outside China may be easing. Read more »

S.Korea reports 35 new coronavirus cases, total at 7,513

Reuters
Posted at Mar 10 10:46 AM

SEOUL - South Korea reported 35 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing total infections in Asia's biggest outbreak outside mainland China to 7,513. Read more »

Kim Jong Un sends 'get well soon' wishes for S.Korea's coronavirus battle

Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
Posted at Mar 05 08:05 PM

The two sides' exchanges have ground nearly to a halt after the North closed borders and temporarily shut a joint liaison office in a border city to avert an outbreak, while the South added 438 infections on Thursday to swell its tally to 5,766. Read more »

S.Korean president apologizes for mask shortage, declares war on coronavirus

Sangmi Cha and Ju-min Park, Reuters
Posted at Mar 04 12:44 PM

President Moon Jae-in apologized for shortages of face masks and promised support for virus-hit small businesses in Asia's fourth-biggest economy, which has now reported 5,186 cases of the flu-like disease and 28 deaths. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 3, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 04 03:40 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Plan of action vs coronavirus

YONHAP via AFP
Posted at Mar 03 02:49 PM

South Korean President Moon Jae-in (3rd right) and his ministers wear face masks during a cabinet meeting at the government complex in Seoul on Tuesday.  Read more »

New minimoon found orbiting Earth. There will be more

Rebecca Boyle, The New York Times
Updated as of Feb 28 12:14 PM

Earth gets a new moon most months, but this month, we got two.About 4 a.m. on Feb. 15 at the Mount Lemmon Observatory, 9,000 feet above Tucson, Arizona, two astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey, Kacper Wierzchos and Theodore Pruyne, watched as their computer screens registered a dot moving against a static background of stars. Read more »

'This is a big deal': Earth captures new 'mini moon'

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 28 12:59 PM

Earth has acquired a second "mini-moon" about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet. Read more »

White House calls for biggest NASA budget in decades to reach the moon, Mars

Reuters
Posted at Feb 11 07:23 AM

WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday asked Congress for $25.2 billion for NASA in 2021, the agency's biggest budget in decades, calling for steady increases over five years to meet President Donald Trump's goal of landing astronauts on the moon and Mars. Read more »

Snow moon rises over Pasay City

Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 09 10:06 PM

The full moon illuminates the cityscape as seen from Macapagal Avenue in Pasay City on Sunday. Read more »

South Korea's Moon urges calm amid protests over coronavirus quarantine sites

Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha, Reuters
Posted at Jan 30 11:03 AM

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged residents not to give in to fear as the country prepared to evacuate the first of around 700 citizens from the epicenter of the new coronavirus epidemic in China on Thursday. Read more »

Moonstruck: Japanese billionaire's girlfriend entrants top 20,000

Sam Nussey, Reuters
Posted at Jan 16 03:44 PM

Applications to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's girlfriend have topped 20,000, streaming service AbemaTV said on Thursday, ahead of its documentary on his search for a "life partner" to take on his moon voyage.   Read more »

Wanted: Girlfriend to fly to the Moon with Japanese billionaire

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 14 06:29 AM

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's search for a girlfriend to join him on a voyage around the moon will be the subject of a new documentary program, in the latest attention-grabbing stunt by the entrepreneur.   Read more »

India targets new moon mission in 2020

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 01 06:56 PM

India plans to make a fresh attempt to land an unmanned mission on the moon in 2020 after a failed bid last year. Read more »

Partial solar eclipse visible in Philippines on Dec. 26

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 14 10:34 PM

A day after Christmas, Filipinos — particularly residents in southern Philippines — will be able to watch a solar eclipse, state weather bureau PAGASA said.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 12, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 12 11:50 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos Read more »

After 4 years, China's top diplomat visits South Korea to mend ties

Sangmi Cha, Reuters
Posted at Dec 04 02:54 PM

During his two-day stay, the State Councilor Wang Yi will meet South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and President Moon Jae-in, officials in Seoul said. Read more »