Year: 2015

TAIPEI: Mainland tourists in Taiwan will soon be able to buy from thousands of vendors using a mobile app from ...

BEIJING: China and Albania vowed on Thursday to strengthen cooperation in infrastructure construction. In a meeting with Albanian Prime Minister ...

ISLAMABAD: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Country Director Marc-André Franche has said that Pakistanis third on the Global Climate Risk Index, ...

BEIJING: China will import a broader range of goods and commodities from Africa to help the continent further diversify its ...

SEOUL: South Korean stocks traded nearly flat late Friday morning as investors took a wait-and-see approach after the U.S. stock ...

WASHINGTON: Government has banned the importation of sugar, mealie-meal and flour, among other products with immediate effect, Deputy Minister of ...

BEIJING: China and Russia are setting up a joint venture in Russia for making electromagnetic unit vehicles for the Moscow-Kazan ...

BEIJING: China shares fell over 1 percent on Friday morning, heading for their biggest one-day drop in a month, hit ...

TOKYO:  Japan’s year –on-year door imports rose by around 10% in September 2015 and compared to August, September imports were ...

NEW YORK: Astronomers using a telescope in Chile have observed a hypergiant star shedding massive amounts of mass, suggesting it ...

CANADA: U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation on Wednesday providing a framework for space companies to mine ore from asteroids ...

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Pakistan Thursday signed agreements for combined loan assistance of nearly 800 million U.S. ...

WASHINGTON: The government plans to reduce the additional volume of rice imports below 1.3 million metric tons (MT) for the ...

PERTH: The Australian sharemarket traded higher at noon as major miners underpinned the positive tone following a rally in base ...

SEOUL: Bank deposit rates in South Korea rose for the first time in 10 months on expectations that the U.S. ...

MUMBAI: Despite government's attempt to curtail imports of consumer items, shoppers are likely to buy Rs 54,700 crore worth foreign ...

DUBAI: Dubai Courts has sentenced a dealer of illegal IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services to a three-month jail-term and fined ...

LONDON: The dollar, euro and yen found themselves in familiar territory early on Friday, having shuffled sideways in thin trade ...

KATHMANDU: Nepal imported agro products worth Rs137.12 billion in the last fiscal year 2014-15, setting off concern that the agrarian ...

TIRANA: Albania's wage index increased by 7.6 percent during the second quarter of this year compared to the same period ...