Year: 2015

BEIJING: China's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, edged down 0.2 percent to 449.1 billion kilowatt hours (kwh) ...

SHANGHAI: More foreign investors are participating in Shanghai’s pilot free trade zone this year as they tap the zone’s reform ...

KARACHI: Newly appointed FBR Chairman Nisar Muhammad Khan and other top officials have lauded the decision of Finance Minister to ...

BEIJING: Italian automaker Fiat will start recalling 42,935 Viaggio cars in China on Friday due to a problem with the ...

PERTH: About 60 wharfies employed by the waterfront's third operator, Hutchison Ports Australia, will take voluntary redundancy following settlement of ...

MEXICO: A dead whale washed onto a beach in Victoria's far east Gippsland has attracted a white pointer shark measuring ...

WASHINGTON: The image at the top (here for readers on mobile devices) is one of the latest shots retrieved from ...

WASHINGTON: Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered how cockroaches are able exert a force 50 times stronger than their ...

WASHINGTON: Rumors about a supposed celestial event that will cover the world in darkness for 15 days this month have ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX), a key gauge of the export performance of the small and highly open economy, ...

SOFIA: The number of unemployed people in Bulgaria dropped by 24.3 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2015, the ...

NEW DELHI: India’s polished diamond exports fell 17 percent to $1.8 billion year on year in October, according to data ...

BRUSSELS: The annual inflation in Eurozone was confirmed at 0.1 percent in October, greater than the previously estimated 0 percent, ...

DHAKA: Telekomasia, a Singapore-based telecom services company, is keen to invest more than $1 billion in Bangladesh to make tech-related products. ...

SOFIA: Barley exports from Bulgaria reached 92 KMT during July - November 2015 against 183 KMT during the same period ...

HONG KONG: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has paid 53.4 million euros to acquire a 10.84 percent ...

NEW DELHI: Texas Governor Greg Abbott plans to take a trade delegation to India next year as part of his ...

NEW DELHI: A person wanted in connection with a gold smuggling racket was arrested at the city airport. Police said ...

NEW YORK: Removing the export ban would not have an impact on global consumption of oil, which is expected to ...

RIYADH: Saudi authorities have seized 22.4 million amphetamine pills and arrested 1,776 drug smugglers during the last eight months of ...