Year: 2015

SYDNEY: Major resources stocks haven fallen under intense pressure as commodity prices plunge to new lows, causing the sharemarket to ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan's exports in November posted their steepest year-on-year drop in more than six years as demand failed to recover ...

TAIPEI: Shares in Taiwan closed below the 8,400-point mark Tuesday as investors were motivated by a fall on Wall Street ...

BEIJING: Chinese stocks fell the most in a week after trade data signalled a deepening slowdown in the nation’s economy ...

ISLAMABAD: Muhammad Nasir Khan Ghouri, a BS-20 officer of Inland Revenue Service, presently posted as Chief (BTB), Federal Board of ...

ISLAMABAD: Malik Amjad Zubair Tiwana, a BS-20 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of ...

ISLAMABAD: Muzaffar Ali Soomro, a BS-19 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of Commissioner-IR ...

HONG KONG: Astronomers have discovered a nest of massive baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away, which are seemingly placed at ...

WASHINGTON: The Finance Ministry is poised to cut import duty on up to 1,000 items in a bid to strengthen ...

EUROPE: Astronomers have discovered the faintest galaxy ever detected, dating back to the early universe. The ancient structure, which has ...

KARACHI: The Central Bank has directed all the banks to facilitate the pensioners, by establishing special counters for them in ...

WASHINGTON: New images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offer the clearest, closest view yet of Pluto's stunning surface. The ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Small & Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) has organised a four-day training workshop for textile ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks closed at a two-month low on Tuesday, tracking sluggish global markets, as slumping oil prices ...

  SEOUL: South Korean shares dipped 0.75 percent Tuesday as a free-fall in oil prices dampened investors' appetite for risky ...

FRANKFURT: Lower prices helped cut Germany's oil import bill by 34.4 percent to 28.0 billion euros ($30.30 billion) in the ...

TOKYO: Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo yesterday, seeking 301.99 million yen (US$2.45 million) ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has directed ministries of Water & Power and Petroleum & Natural Resources to keep ...

KARACHI: The Sindh government is developing a Marble City Industrial Enclave on 300 acres for the promotion of marble and ...

BEIJING: China's foreign trade in November dropped 4.5 percent year on year to 2.16 trillion yuan (US$337 billion), the ninth ...