Year: 2015

ISLAMABAD: The Commerce Ministry has evolved a strategy to present Pakistan’s stance on several agenda items, which will be discussed ...

SEOUL: South Korean stocks edged up 0.2 percent Thursday as investors took a wait-and-see stance ahead of the U.S. Fed’s ...

NAIROBI: The cost of Unga is likely to increase following decreased maize imports from neighbouring countries. Large volumes of imports ...

WASHINGTON: Fears increased over Britain’s growth in the final three months of the year after the latest trade figures dashed ...

BEIJING: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China's e-commerce giant, has signed an eight-year partnership agreement with FIFA, in which its Internet ...

KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign reserves have reached $20,450.9 million on December 4, 2015. According to the break-up of ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia may import 3 million tons of corn in 2016, an industry ministry official said, amid growing demand for ...

LAHORE: The Punjab government has approved 24 development projects worth Rs16,251.933 million (almost Rs16.3 billion). The projects were approved in ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore shares opened higher on Friday (Dec 11), with the benchmark Straits Times Index at 2,851.42 in early trade, ...

CANADA: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may not be a unique feature.Writing in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers say they have discovered ...

BEIJING: China and Azerbaijan on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. ...

BEIJING: Chinese imports and exports both fell in November, official data showed Tuesday, the latest poor figures from the world’s ...

CYPRUS: The Cyprus Customs and Excise Department have denied that there has been a shady cover-up following a massive illegal ...

KARACHI: The overseas Pakistanis sent $8.098 billion remittances during the first five months of current fiscal year of 2015/16, showing ...

  TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks fell on Friday as exchange-traded funds targeting China shares dropped on the back of selling in ...

BEIJING: The remains of a tiny version of the huge triceratops dinosaur – no bigger than a small dog – ...

AURORA: A Pair of Kane County sheriff's detectives seized 157 pounds of marijuana and arrested four men in an Aurora ...

DUBLIN: Three men have been arrested after heroin worth €600,000 was seized in Dublin yesterday. The men, aged 22, 34, ...

SAN DIEGO: With just three weeks left in the year, marijuana eradication efforts in the San Diego area in 2015 ...

AUSTIN: Hundreds of bottles of counterfeit wine, seized from the Rudy Kurniawan case, are being destroyed. Over 500 bottles of ...