Year: 2015

LONDON: Mayors from 30 European towns and cities, including London and Bristol, have pledged to curb their greenhouse gas emissions ...

TOKYO: Japan tax agency authorities have begun a review of how slot machine maker and casino developer Universal Entertainment accounted ...

SYDNEY: The Australian stocks opened weaker as tumbling COMMODITY PRICES pressured the resource sector, offsetting a positive lead from Wall ...

FRANCE: A team of researchers has come up with a revolutionary material that has superior anti-penetration properties while remaining flexible. ...

TOKYO: Japan companies have pressure to use their near-record cash stockpiles to help drive growth, with Finance Minister Taro Aso ...

TOKYO: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s optimism that he can meet a 2 per cent inflation target is getting ...

LONDON: Google has offered to reduce data usage with Chrome for iOS and Android earlier, and now offering with the ...

TOKYO: Japan will increase tax for mini-vehicles in coming April by 50% to JPY10,800 (USD90) a year, which account for ...

ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan has been ‘shocked’ by the 15.6 per cent decline in exports during the ...

LONDON: Earth Hour, a global campaign by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature to create awareness of global warming and ...

TAIPEI: February's tax revenue fell 16.3 percent year-on-year to NT$57.1 billion, led by lower revenue in securities transactions, sales and ...

HONG KONG: Haier Electronics, the world's biggest supplier of washing machines, plans to drive e-commerce sales in the countryside with ...

HONG KONG: Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC said profit climbed over six percent last year as it started a spate ...

TOKYO: Japanese stocks took a rollercoaster ride early Monday, opening higher and then dropping to negative territory, only to recover ...

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has sought help from the International Monetary Fund to introduce corporate taxes in a bid to diversify ...

RAWALPINDI: Three people were injured when a girder of incomplete Metro Bus project fell on several cars on Liaquat Bagh ...

JAKARTA: Publicly listed state-owned tin producer PT Timah (TINS) is seeking Rp 3 trillion (US$230.5 million) in loans to build ...

LONDON: During annual conference, Facebook main focus and clear emphasis was on computer security. In CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote, the ...

DOHA: Qatar's Ooredoo forecasts its revenue will fall by as much as 3 percent in 2015 and core earnings will ...

MEXICO: The precise measurement of Saturn’s rotation has been a big challenge: Different parts of that sweltering ball of hydrogen ...