Bloomberg Shin Kyuk-ho, a wartime migrant to Japan who returned home to build a little-known chewing-gum maker into Lotte Group, South Korea’s biggest retailer, has died. He was 97. Shin had been hospitalised in Seoul to get medical treatment for various age-related symptoms and passed away on Sunday at 4:29 pm, Lotte Group said. Shin was among the last of ...

Bloomberg UK-based energy explorer Premier Oil Plc can move ahead with its plan to extend debt maturities and buy gas fields in the North Sea, a Scottish court ruled. Judge Sarah Wolffe ruled the company can proceed to a creditor vote on a proposed change in terms on $2 billion-worth of debt, heading off a challenge by Premier Oil’s largest ...

Bloomberg North Korea named a former army officer who led military and high-level talks between the two Koreas as its top diplomat, Yonhap News reported, in a move that could change the course of stalled nuclear negotiations between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. Foreign envoys in Pyongyang were notified late last week that Ri Son Gwon replaced Ri ...