MANILA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines, as ASEAN chair, will insist that a long-delayed Code of Conduct with China on the South China Sea explicitly references the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as it works to complete the document by this year,

South Korea's benchmark KOSPI nearly doubled in less than a year, crossing the 5,000-point mark for the first time in 45 years Thursday.

South Korea isn’t delaying the first planned $20 billion tranche of its US investment commitments as part of a trade deal framework, Finance Minister Koo Yun Cheol said, adding that the time-consuming process to select projects is underway even though it’s unlikely to be completed in the first half of the year.

South Korea's economic growth slowed in the final quarter of last year as a sharp slump in construction investment, coupled with a pullback in exports.

Han was charged with abetting then-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law imposition in late 2024 and other allegations.