In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name one m

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has blasted opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien’s nuclear fact-finding mission to South Korea, labelling the study tour a “last-ditch” attempt to make the ­Coalition’s planned tilt towards atomic energy stack-up.

A giant South Korean pension fund will inject $700m into the country’s largest student accommodation company, Scape Australia, as part of a new global strategic partnership.

If energy prices decline as promised by the president-elect, South Korea is expected to increase crude oil imports to alleviate trade pressure with the U.S. Last year, the prices of crude oil and natural gas imported from the U.S. reached $17.3 billion (about 25 trillion won).

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn’t tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that “I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS (a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) with Australia.”

Beyond China and the U.S., ASEAN has formal relationships with Russia, India, Australia, the European Union, Britain, Japan, South Korea and many others. It hosts annual “ASEAN Plus Three ...

South Korea's acting president Choi Sang-mok said on Tuesday he hoped for bilateral relations with Washington to develop more reciprocally under the Trump administration, citing concerns about how U.S.

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol was formally arrested early on Sunday, days after being apprehended at his presidential compound in Seoul.

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“Over the course of next year, Putin will likely face mounting domestic problems. Russia’s central bank has forecast economic growth of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent in 2025, down from 3.5 to 4 per cent in 2024, suggesting that the wartime boom may have run its course.”

Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks struggled to answer basic questions during their Senate confirmation hearings this week. There was litany of obfuscation and waffling across the board,

NATO has deepened its links with Japan and three other Indo-Pacific partners, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, though not as part of the military alliance.