Year: 2015

BEIJING: Jack Ma, founder of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy a stake in the South China ...

SINGAPORE: More than half the world’s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction, international experts warned Tuesday, as ...

BEIJING: Tuniu Corp, one of China’s online tourism giants, said yesterday that it has accepted a US$500 million investment from ...

BEIJING: ZTE Corp said yesterday that it received an investment of 2.4 billion yuan (US$376 million) from a government-backed semiconductor ...

BEIJING: Coal output in China, the world’s largest coal producer, continued to decline in the first 10 months of 2015, ...

BEIJING: China is likely to invest more than $1 trillion overseas in the next five years, Premier Li Keqiang said ...

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks fell in early trading Wednesday amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East following Turkey's downing of ...

SHINGTON: There may be long filaments of dark matter or "hair" on our Earth, suggests new research, adding further study ...

NEW YORK: U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Industrial ...

KATHMANDU: The Birgunj Customs Office fulfilled just 1 percent of its revenue collection target in the fourth month of the ...

CHITTAGONG: The Customs department has started a case against a Chittagong company for allegedly dodging duties to the tune of ...

NEW DELHI: To stimulate vegetable oil and oilseeds sector, an industry body has come up with a number of suggestions, ...

NEW YORK: Researchers have discovered in Libya a previously unknown anthropoid primate -- a forerunner of today's monkeys, apes and ...

ICARAIMA: Brazilian Federal Highway Police seized a shipment of marijuana, weighing 24,572 kilograms. It is the largest marijuana confiscation ever ...

MELBOURNE: Tonnes of tobacco and more than 10 million illegal cigarettes have been seized in Melbourne by Australian border officials. ...

LONDON: U.S. stocks closed marginally higher Tuesday, as investors appeared to shrug off geopolitical fears. A 2.2% jump in energy ...

COCHIN: Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday nabbed a Thalassery native while attempting to smuggle in ...

AMRITSAR: The BSF today seized two packets of heroin, worth Rs 10 crore in international market, near Jagdish seema chowki. ...

ROME: European markets finished sharply lower on Tuesday after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian ...

INDORE: Khandwa police arrested three persons carrying gold and silver worth Rs 70 lakh from Indore to Maharashtra on Tuesday ...