Year: 2015

SEJONG:  Overseas construction orders won by South Korean builders this year fell sharply from a year earlier due to weak ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday congratulated Abdul Rauf Alam of United Business Group on winning the election for the ...

SEOUL: South Koreans love their mobile devices. According to Digieco, a research center run by Korea’s KT Corp, smartphone penetration ...

MUSCAT: Port of Duqm plans to start export of minerals for the first time in February next year, said a ...

NEW DELHI: India offered to step up crude oil imports from Iran as soon as sanctions imposed by the West ...

RIYADH: With effect from 13 November 2015, ports in Saudi Arabia will not allow the discharge of any chemicals in ...

TOKYO: Nissan's global production has increased for the seventh consecutive year with sales in some markets also rising. In November, Nissan ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has released an amount of Rs45,481.12 million (about Rs45.5 billion) to execute development schemes in Federally ...

FAISALABAD: The experts of Punjab Agriculture Department have asked the farmers to start sunflower cultivation from January 1 to get ...

DUBAI: Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade reached Dh966 billion during the first nine months of 2015, compared to Dh988 over the ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways has announced to upgrade waiting halls of 16 major stations by equipping them with facilities like air-conditioners, ...

TEHRAN: Iran exported more than $32 billion worth of non-oil goods during the first nine months of the current Iranian ...

HANOI: Garment exports of Vietnam are likely to increase by 8 per cent to reach $29.5 billion to $30 billion ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has awarded 70 Supplemental Agreements (SAs) for conversion to Petroleum Concessions Agreements ...

ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) meeting, chaired by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, approved the proposal ...

MOSCOW: Russia’s state-run natural gas company, Gazprom, and Azerbaijan’s state-controlled oil and gas firm, SOCAR, are in talks to increase ...

MOSCOW: Russia's Techsnabexport (Tenex) has said that it expects the value of its exports this year to outstrip that of ...

TEHRAN: According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the country imported 177,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude ...

MOSCOW: The Armenian government on Thursday approved a set of amendments to an agreement it signed with Russia on December ...

ISLAMABAD: With the aim to make Pakistan a real welfare state, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday launched an ambitious “PM’s ...