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Singapore: Fire at Industrial Building Causes Injury, Evacuations

A fire broke out at a three-storey industrial building in Tampines, Singapore on May 9, sending dark plumes of smoke and ash into the sky, injuring one person and prompting evacuations from nearby workplaces and a school.

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'Summit Congress' of Asia-Pacific news agencies opens in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan delivers a speech at an opening ceremony for the OANA Summit Congress at a hotel in Seoul on April 22, 2010. Heads or representatives from about 40 member companies of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agency are taking part in the conference, co-hosted by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

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S. Korea holds memorial ceremony for independence hero

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan delivers a speech during a centennial memorial ceremony at the Seoul City Plaza for Ahn Jung Geun, a Korean independence hero who assassinated Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor general of Korea, in 1909. Ahn, who fatally shot Ito on a railway platform in Harbin, in what was then Manchuria in northeastern China, in 1909, was executed by Japanese colonial authorities on March 26, 1910.

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Japan, S. Korea affirm cooperation in historically sensitive year

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (R) and South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan talk during their meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 11, 2010.

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S. Korea PM mourns shooting accident victims

BUSAN, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan speaks to reporters at a hospital in Yangsan on Nov. 15, 2009. Chung mourned for the 10 people, including Japanese, who were killed in the accident at an indoor shooting range in nearby Busan.

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Gates holds talks with S. Korean Prime Minister Chung

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan shake hands before their talks in Seoul on Oct. 21.

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Seoul university apologizes for stem cell scientist's fraud

SEOUL, South Korea - Chung Un Chan, president of South Korea's Seoul National University, offers an apology to the nation at a press conference on Jan. 11 for the scientific fraud committed at the school by disgraced scientist Hwang Woo Suk, who faked research results of two breakthrough papers. (Kyodo)

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'Summit Congress' of Asia-Pacific news agencies opens in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan delivers a speech at an opening ceremony for the OANA Summit Congress at a hotel in Seoul on April 22, 2010. Heads or representatives from about 40 member companies of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agency are taking part in the conference, co-hosted by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea holds memorial ceremony for independence hero

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan delivers a speech during a centennial memorial ceremony at the Seoul City Plaza for Ahn Jung Geun, a Korean independence hero who assassinated Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor general of Korea, in 1909. Ahn, who fatally shot Ito on a railway platform in Harbin, in what was then Manchuria in northeastern China, in 1909, was executed by Japanese colonial authorities on March 26, 1910. (Kyodo)

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Gates holds talks with S. Korean Prime Minister Chung

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan shake hands before their talks in Seoul on Oct. 21. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Japan, S. Korea affirm cooperation in historically

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 11 Kyodo - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (R) and South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan talk during their meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 11, 2010. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea PM mourns shooting accident victims

BUSAN, South Korea - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un Chan speaks to reporters at a hospital in Yangsan on Nov. 15, 2009. Chung mourned for the 10 people, including Japanese, who were killed in the accident at an indoor shooting range in nearby Busan. (Kyodo)