Year: 2015

SINGAPORE: Shell Singapore announced that it has finished upgrading its ethylene cracker complex on Bukom Island, boosting production of ethylene ...

BEIJING: China confirmed the reception of Norway's application to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) here the other day. ...

ALASKA – A group of researchers said polar bears forced off melting sea ice will not find enough food to ...

TOKYO: Japanese stocks rose, with the Topix index capping its biggest rally since February, as rail companies and tiremakers advanced. ...

RIYADH: Deputy Governor of Saudi Arabia said that investor showing more interest in Saudi economy despite an oil price that ...

SHINGHAI: China’s industrial companies posted a drop of 4.2 percent in profits from a year earlier in the first two ...

CANADA: Flying saucers are the stuff of science fiction, but NASA is turning science fiction into just plain science at ...

BEIJING: The Asian Development Bank expects China’s economic growth to moderate to 7.2 percent this year and 7 percent in ...

BEIJING: Chinese internet agency has declared Google Inc's decision to no longer recognize certificates of trust issued by the authority ...

ANKARA: Turkey’s growth slowed in 2014 and demand has been weak in the early months of this year, according to ...

BEIJING: L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics group, saw its sales revenue in China rise 7.7 percent year-on-year in 2014 to ...

WASHINGTON: For Scott Kelly, the next 12 months will be ones of weightlessness. He is currently taking part in NASA's ...

ANKARA: Turkey’s exports fell 13.4 percent year-on-year in March to $11.23 billion, mainly due to continuing fragilities in the European ...

SYDNEY: Australian stocks have opened higher as the potential for a Reserve Bank of Australia rate cut next week supports ...

AMSTERDAM: Samsung is introducing in the Netherlands Samsung Business, a portfolio of products targeted at six specific business sectors. The ...

MUSCAT: Takaful Oman Insurance has opened its new branch at Sohar to expand its network across the Sultanate of Oman ...

TOKYO: Japanese banks will oppose a push by global regulators to toughen rules on the capital lenders to withstand an ...

TOKYO: Japan says that they are not bound to join AIIB as dozens of countries from Europe to the Middle ...

BERLIN: German CO2 emissions have fallen for the first time in three years as the country’s high profile switch to ...

KIEV: Ukraine has been buying meat from companies abroad that have been guilty of selling unsafe meat to Eastern Europe. ...