S Korea denies hostage payments
288015
South Korea denies rumours it paid a big ransom for the release of hostages held by the Taleban in Afghanistan.
111817
South Korea criticized North Korea on Monday for failing to disclose what happened to millions of dollars of aid intended for the construction of a reunion center for families separated by the division of the Korean peninsula.
724371
Some South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage in Afghanistan reported being beaten by their Taliban captors for refusing to convert to Islam or for protecting female captives, a hospital chief said Monday.
286427
LONDON The British government won&#39;t pay a ransom or meet any political demands to secure the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq.
636371
Â· BBC says officials processed payments Â· Goldsmith refuses to answer questions
184354
December 14, 2004 ã¡ A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman has denied an International Herald Tribune report that hundreds of the country&#39;s generals defected to China.
268560
Afghan officials denied Tuesday that they struck a deal with kidnappers who released three foreign U.N. workers unharmed in Kabul.
488824
British defence firm BAE denied a news report on Thursday that it had secretly paid a Saudi Arabian prince more than one billion pounds in connection with Britain&#39;s biggest weapons deal.
225986
North Korea's declaration that it  possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons  state, South Korea's unification minister said on Monday.
713211
South Korea&#39;s spy chief has refused to  deny his government paid a ransom to the Taliban to release 19  hostages last week, a lawmaker said on Thursday.
243041
A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al Zarqawi denied on Monday it had bought two Italian women hostages from their Iraqi captors, an Internet statement said.
333852
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on Sunday again denied it had paid a ransom for the release of two Italian women aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
40555
SOUTH KOREAN CHRISTIANS: 23 South Korean Christian aid workers are taken hostage while traveling by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. Two of the hostages were shot and two women were freed. The Taliban agree to free the remaining 19 in exchange for a promise from South Korea to end missionary work in Afghanistan and withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year, as previously planned.
319199
SEOUL, March 2 -- South Korea on Friday added pressure on North Korea to comply with an international disarmament agreement, refusing the impoverished nation's demand to restore full aid shipments until after its main nuclear reactor is shut down.
189968
Philippine government officials strongly dismissed allegations on Monday that a witness in a controversial multi-million dollar telecoms deal was "kidnapped" to stop him from testifying in a Senate inquiry.
310587
SEOUL Sovereign Asset Management, the largest shareholder of SK Corp., said Sunday that it would take legal action after directors of South Korea&#39;s biggest oil refiner refused a request for an extraordinary general meeting.
395044
The United States has denied claims from Pyongyang that North Korea has been taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.