SOUTH KOREA

As the spread of MERS continues in South Korea, Japan has begun to take preventive measures.

Four people are dead and dozens are infected. The country has temporarily closed over 1,160 schools as it tries to contain the virus' spread.

The 35th confirmed MERS patient in South Korea participated in several public events, despite official instructions to quarantine himself.

Apple Watch will go on sale in seven new markets, including Italy, Spain and Taiwan, according to a press release from the company.

The North Korean leader's sister could be taking over for a retiring leader in the Propaganda Department.

The Japanese conglomerate is becoming a force in the mobile Internet space, making ever more aggressive bets on startups it views as disruptive.

The newly tested ballistic missiles have a range of more than 300 miles, and are capable of hitting nearly all of North Korea, a South Korean defense ministry official said.

South Korea has so far isolated over 1,312 people, suspected to have contracted the deadly disease.

More than 200 divers are combing through the cruise ship that capsized in the Yangtze River in China Monday night. The Eastern Star had 456 people on board.

Some 70 top leaders and more than 400 lower-level officials have been executed this year under Kim's orders.

The two cases are the first MERS-related deaths reported in the country.

The ridesharing company has big plans for the subcontinent, but they’ll go nowhere unless it can ensure passenger safety.

By Monday, 682 of the 715 people who have been in close contact with MERS patients were put in isolation.

The U.S. military said on Friday it discovered even more suspected shipments of live anthrax than previously thought, both in the United States and abroad, and ordered a sweeping review of practices meant to inactivate the bacteria.

An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

The potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Disease has hit China via a traveler from South Korea, where there are 10 confirmed cases.

U.N. Special Rapporteur Daniel Kaye said that the secrecy and anonymity offered by encryption technology safeguards freedom of expression.

South Korean lawmakers passed a bill early on Friday to ban taxi services provided by private drivers, marking what is likely the first nationwide legislation to outlaw Uber Technologies Inc's low-cost uberX service.

The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said.

North Korea's volatility and unpredictability proves to be a bigger threat than China's military ambitions in the South China Sea.

According to a new study, women are responsible for more than 70 percent of household income in the insular country. Men are stuck in low-paying jobs.