South Korea votes, seen choosing businessman president
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South Koreans voted on Wednesday in a presidential election expected to be won by a conservative former CEO who has vowed to help business and get tough on North Korea, but whose leadership may be undermined by a fraud probe.
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South Korea's foreign minister has become the only candidate with a good chance of winning the race to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, but a mystery 'no' vote has thrown his victory into question.Comment
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South Korea's first woman prime minister announced on Monday that she would stand in December's presidential election, seeking to represent left-leaning forces.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon has emerged as the clear favorite to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary general after winning his third informal straw poll in the Security Council.
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South Korea's president-elect promised on Thursday to put the economy first once he takes office and not to be shy about telling prickly North Korea to mend its ways over nuclear weapons and human rights.
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SEOUL -- Even by the standards of South Korea's turbulent politics, the reversals in President Roh Moo Hyun's fortunes have been dramatic. Not even the recent breakthrough deal to shut down North Korea's nuclear program, a seeming boost to his longstanding policy of reconciliation with Pyongyang, restored his popularity.
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The United States and Japan on Thursday welcomed conservative Lee Myung-Bak's election in South Korea, hoping the next president will be firmer on North Korea after a decade of liberal rule in Seoul.
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South Korea's president approved an independent probe of his successor Wednesday over financial fraud allegations that have cast a cloud over the incoming conservative's landslide election win.
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Right-wing businessman Lee Myung-bak overcame doubts about his ethics to win South Korea's presidential election by a landslide on Wednesday with promises to make voters better off and to stand up to North Korea.
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Polls opened Wednesday in South Korea's presidential election, with a business-friendly conservative tipped to end a decade of left-leaning rule despite an upcoming fraud investigation.
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Exit polls showed Lee Myung-bak winning South Korea's presidential election by a landslide Wednesday
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In the country's presidential election, Serbs are trying to choose between national pride and economic promise
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South Korea's constitutional court on Thursday ruled that a special counsel investigation into fraud allegations against President-elect Lee Myung-bak could go ahead, even though part of the process was unconstitutional.
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Lee Myung-Bak won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide Wednesday, as voters backed the former Hyundai chief executive to revive the economy and disregarded fraud allegations against him.
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Indonesians voted on Monday in a  landmark election expected to remove President Megawati  Sukarnoputri and install an ex-general who has vowed firmer  leadership in fighting terror and boosting the economy.
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The new president-elect of South Korea says the North must ditch nuclear weapons and boost human rights.
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Indonesians voted on Monday in a landmark election expected to remove President Megawati Sukarnoputri and install an ex-general who has vowed firmer leadership in fighting terror and boosting the economy.