Year: 2015

  BEIJING: China's tech-heavy start-up board ChiNext jumped nearly 3 percent on Wednesday to a 4-month high, lifting the broader ...

WASHINGTON: Is it possible that those distant galaxies are just too far away to ever be seen clearly? That’s the ...

LONDON: America has set up a hotline with China to make sure an accidental satellite collision doesn't spark a full ...

CANADA: The Planetary Society has suggested sending humans to Phobos first, before sending them to the surface of the Red ...

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday morning as risk appetite was sapped by heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East following ...

BEIJING: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, rose by 11 basis points to 6.3877 ...

KOCHI: The Centre’s decision to drop its plan to import coconut oil has brought cheers to growers, but not to ...

LONDON: The yen gained slightly in Asia on Wednesday after downbeat central bank minutes and data on corporate prices as ...

PERTH: The Australian dollar bounced back to a one-month high Wednesday after RBA governor Glenn Stevens hinted that no rate ...

HONG KONG: For the first time ever, scientists exploring the ocean floor discovered what happened when a tectonic plate gets ...

MEXICO: Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate ...

WASHINGTON: The value of merchandise imports rose in September, the government reported this morning. Preliminary data by the Philippine Statistics ...

  PERTH: The Australian dollar bounced back to a one-month high Wednesday after RBA governor Glenn Stevens hinted that no ...

LONDON: The Amazon has one of the world's most diverse collections of tree species, but findings of a new study ...

BEIJING: A raid on a suspected illicit tobacco factory has led to 16,000 illegal Chinese cigarettes and almost 12 kilos ...

MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is looking to simplify the process of goods transfer between Philippine Economic Zone Authority ...

KOLKATA: In the third such incident this year, an airport ground handling staff was arrested while reportedly trying to smuggle ...

ABUJA: To achieve his aim of higher revenue, Customs Comptroller-General (CCG) Col. Hameed Ali must curb the excesses of his ...

ISLAMABAD: As the season is starting to progress there are further damages being reported. Previously it was expected that export ...

BEIJING: In China, October ethanol imports slumped from the all time high achieved in September to 68,961 cubic meters, down ...