Year: 2015

  PERTH: The Australian stock market opened lower on Tuesday, reflecting weakness in resources and financial stocks. The negative lead ...

BEIJING: China imported 315,738 mt of wheat in October, 52.8% more than in September, with the majority coming from the ...

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s exports and imports both have fallen sharply due to the ongoing unofficial Indian embargo, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) ...

SEOUL: South Korean stocks traded 0.44 percent higher late Tuesday morning on the back of gains in techs and financial ...

BRENT: Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope to discover hundreds of previously undetected massive galaxies. The findings ...

CANADA: One the biggest benefits of exploring space is the ability to look right back down at the Earth. A ...

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s cereal imports are expected to swell to a record 855,800 tonnes in 2015-16, a whopping 35 percent jump ...

WASHINGTON: A leading WA scientist says pollution may have killed more than 700 fish in Cockburn Sound, south of Perth. ...

PARIS: Scientists believe that Earth’s first atmosphere, formed after its creation, was probably made up of hydrogen and helium. Earth’s ...

GHANA: Figures gathered by the Business Day show that the demand for imported chicken is expected to rise exponentially to ...

LONDON: The yen and the Aussie reversed course slightly on Tuesday in Asia with solid Japanese manufacturing data and comments ...

LONDON: France’s CMA CGM SA has entered exclusive talks with Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. to buy the Singaporean shipping company, ...

MEXICO: Another chemical shipper has left Connecticut for Texas: Navig8 has been setting up offices here recently. Navig8’s transfer from ...

LONDON: The nation’s leading container shippers last week reported weaker-than-expected earnings for the third quarter amid a sharp drop in ...

WASHINGTON: The United States displaced China as Germany's top export market for machinery in the first nine months of the ...

LONDON: The dollar hovered near an 8-month peak against a basket of currencies on Tuesday, underpinned by expectations the U.S. ...

MUMBAI: The Indian rupee recovered from over two-month low by rising 13 paise to 66.34 against the dollar in early ...

BEIJING: China’s apple imports are expected to jump nearly 50% over last year to 100,000 metric tons, while pear and ...

COLOMBO: A duty free shop employee attempting to smuggle foreign currency valued at Rs. 11.5 million was nabbed by Air ...

AMMAN: Jordan's total exports during the first nine months of 2015 amounted to JD4.16 billion, a 7.2 per cent drop ...