Year: 2015

TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks rose on Thursday, paced by gains in Fubon Financial Holdings after it posted a record net profit ...

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait-Egypt (NBK-E), reported net profits of EGP 445.6 million for the first nine months of 2015 ...

WELLINGTON: The trade deficit widened to $963 million in October 2015, compared with a deficit of $892 million for the ...

KUWAIT: Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives arrested a European national who planted marijuana for sale. Detectives learned earlier that the suspect sold ...

CANADA: Alan Stern, the human engine of the New Horizons mission to Pluto was among the 12 winners in 9 ...

AMMAN:  Jordan’s imports bill for crude oil and oil derivatives plummeted by a major 49 per cent in the first ...

WASHINGTON: Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling towards the planet and is likely to be shredded into pieces that ...

SEOUL: South Korean stocks opened higher Thursday on the back of firm gains from technology and auto shares. The benchmark ...

HONG KONG: Apparently, dark matter comes in hair form, and astronomers looking to find the mysterious strands may not have ...

WASHINGTON: A team of scientists, trying to track down the 'missing' carbon from the Martian atmosphere, has come up with ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia is expected to need to import 3.22 million tonnes of raw sugar in 2016, Panggah Susanto, Director General ...

DOHA: The overall monthly Producer Price Index (PPI) for September, 2015 was estimated at 55.8 points, showing a decrease of ...

PERTH: The Australian sharemarket has defied soggy commodity market momentum to rally at the start of trade, At the 10.15am ...

NEW DELHI: India's crude oil import bill is likely to dip by 35 per cent to $73 billion this fiscal ...

HANOI: Vietnamese customs authorities have confiscated 860kg of elephant tusks hidden among more than a thousand boxes of frozen fish ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will defend its decision of levying 0.2 percent withholding tax on bank transactions ...

MANILA: Officials say the Philippine economy expanded 6 percent in the third quarter and forecast the same growth rate for ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore share prices opened a marginal 0.3 per cent higher on Thursday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) up ...

TOKYO: Japanese stocks rose as U.S. economic data provided more support for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next ...

HARARE: The government overspent by 25 percent in the eight months to August, with the cost of foreign travel skyrocketing, ...