Year: 2015

HONG KONG: Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a third type of carbon — one that is harder ...

BEIJING: China’s advertising expenditure fell 4.8 percent year on year in October, with advertising in traditional media channels — TV, ...

EUROPE: A new study says that more than 17,000 marine species worldwide remain largely unprotected, with the U.S. among the ...

BEIJING: China Energy Engineering Corp, a State-owned builder of power plants, and an existing investor raised $1.8 billion from a ...

HARARE: Listed diversified group Amalgamated Regional Trading (ART) Corporation remained in the red but narrowed its loss for the full ...

HONG KONG: A long term study conducted by managers of The Park Grass experiment at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, ...

  BEIJING: China stocks fell on Friday as investors grew cautious after four straight days of gains, and Hong Kong ...

BEIJING: China's State-owned enterprises are suffering from continued headwinds amid a slowing economy, as government reforms to consolidate the sector ...

BEIJING: China and South Africa have signed 26 bilateral deals on Thursday worth 41.9 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) after talks ...

BEIJING: The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will invest in five major areas during its initial stages－energy, transportation, rural development, ...

TOKYO: Leave it to the Japanese to take technology up a notch: their scientists have recently created touchable holograms, or ...

BERLIN: The European Union launched a probe yesterday into tax deals between US fast food giant McDonald’s and Luxembourg, as ...

HONG KONG: The Hang Seng index dropped 1.1 percent, to 22,164.88 points, led by the Hong Kong China Enterprises Index ...

CANADA: Analysis of a 555-million-year-old fossil of an extinct organism has revealed that the first large, complex creatures that roamed ...

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan’s foreign reserves increased by $110m to $14,787m (about $15 billion) during the week ending ...

CANADA: The eruption began with a fountain of lava stretching one kilometre in the sky, then an ash plume reaching ...

EUROPE: A solar superflare, which is thousands of times more powerful and devastating than normal flares from the Sun, could ...

HARARE: The Financial Gazette can reveal that the power utility is exporting 80 megawatts (MW) of power to Namibia, amid ...

SEOUL: South Korea’s economy grew 1.3 percent in the July-September period, the fastest quarter-on-quarter pace since the second quarter of ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) would be launched on January 1, 2016 in a landmark event, which will likely ...