SEOUL -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed on Thursday to hold a groundbreaking ceremony later this month for railway and road connections across the inter-Korean border, Seoul's unification ministry said.

The ceremony, which South Korean President Moon Jae-in and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un agreed to hold before the end of this year during their third summit in Pyongyang in September, will be held on Dec. 26 at the Panmun Station in the DPRK's border town of Kaesong. (S.Korea-DPRK-Rail Connections)

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SEOUL -- South Korea's military will conduct defense drills near the disputed Dokdo islets, called Takeshima in Japan, mobilizing battleships and combat airplanes, local media outlets reported on Thursday citing the South Korean Navy.

The Navy told local reporters that the regular exercise to defend Dokdo would be staged for two days from Thursday, together with the Air Force and the Coast Guard. (S.Korea-Defense Drills)

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SEOUL -- South Korean prosecutors on Thursday raided the main offices of Samsung BioLogics, a biopharmaceutical unit of Samsung Group, the country's biggest family-controlled conglomerate, as part of a probe into the alleged accounting fraud, local media reported, citing the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.

Prosecutors and investigators stormed the main offices in Incheon, about 40 km west of the capital Seoul, to secure accounting books and relevant materials. Also subject to the raid were two accounting firms in charge of accounting audit of Samsung BioLogics. (S.Korea-Samsung BioLogics)

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PHNOM PENH -- The China Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) launched a science and technology exhibition tour in Cambodia on Thursday.

More than 60 high-tech items covering fields of basic science, life sciences and information technology are on display at the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia-Phnom Penh Branch (UYFC-PP) here. (Cambodia-China-Exhibition)

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DHAKA -- The World Bank has approved a 250 million U.S. dollars development policy operation to help the Bangladeshi government strengthen its capacity to create more, better-paid and quality jobs in a rapidly changing environment.

The Programmatic Jobs Development Policy Credit aims at supporting Bangladesh in developing a stronger policy and institutional framework to address barriers and creating more and better jobs for citizens, including women, youth and the vulnerable population, said the lender in a statement received here Thursday. (Bangladesh-WB-Development) Enditem

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