Korea’s Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that South Korean writer Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024.

Han received the award for her poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and reveals the fragility of human l…

Indonesia Hit by 5.0 Magnitude Earthquake

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia’s Maluku Utara province.

Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics said the earthquake struck at a depth of 127.12 kilometers.

So far, there have been no rep…

Japanese Stock Index Closes Higher

The Japanese stock index closed today’s trading with an increase, after paring its gains yesterday as investors took profits ahead of the release of US inflation data for September.

The Nikkei rose by 0.26% to reach 39,380.89 points, while the broade…