The South Korean government has said it has found cancer-causing chemicals in 79 products made for babies and children. The confirmation comes after inspectors checked 534 products sold by large discount outlets, specialised toy shops, and online shopping malls, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (Kats) said.

High food prices fueled a land-buying spree in developing nations, particularly in Africa, by countries and private investors wanting to assure food supplies for themselves, a think tank said on Wednesday.

In Korean folklore

South Korea has offered at least 5,400 job opportunities for Sri Lankan migrant workers in 2009.

A spokesman for the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) said that Sri Lanka received at least 4,300 jobs last year.

However, the spokesman said that the number of job opportunities available for foreigners in South Korea has reduced from 74,000 to 30,000 last year due to the global economic crisis.

World leaders at the G20 summit disappointed environmental groups on Thursday who said their commitment to fight climate change had been vague.

The leaders reaffirmed a previous commitment to sign a U.N. climate deal this year, a step the U.N. climate-change chief said was useful, though action would be better.

Dhaka has completed the groundwork for negotiating nuclear power deals with Russia, South Korea, China and France aimed at the construction of two medium-sized 600MW nuclear power plants by 2017, officials said.
Dhaka holds talks with a Russian delegation today to know of Moscow

A South Korean energy development firm has signed an agreement with the Pakistan government for a stake in a coal mine in the Thar desert region, the firm said on Monday.

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