Year: 2015

KUWAIT CITY: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has highlighted Pakistan’s achievements in Islamic finance sector and offered to share the ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel), Southeast Asia's largest telecommunications operator, said Thursday its net profit dropped 0.8 percent to 1.03 ...

SEOUL: South Korea's exports in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector fell for the first time in three months, ...

HANOI: A French-financed project to develop brands for Viet Nam's farm produce from different regions, worth nearly US$1.3 million, kicked ...

QUETTA: Pakistan has handed over 280 hectares of a 923-hectar (2,300-acre) tax-exempt land in Gwadar to China under 43-year lease ...

MADRID: The creation of new businesses in Spain fell by 2.8 percent in September when compared with the same month ...

HANOI: Shares declined for a fourth session yesterday amid investors' worries about the high level of trading on margin in ...

HARROW: Consider the newly found V774101, a pint-sized planetoid about 103 times farther away from the sun than Earth – ...

JAKARTA: Consumption of cement in Indonesia rose significantly in October as the Southeast Asia's biggest economy speeds up its massive ...

HANOI: Vietnamese lawmakers released a resolution setting economic targets next year, including an economic growth of 6.7 percent, slightly up ...

SHANGHAI: China's yuan was flat against the dollar on Thursday after the central bank set the official guidance rate almost ...

SEOUL: The South Korean won was up 0.3 per cent at 1,151.5 against the dollar Seoul shares edged down on ...

HANOI: Baoviet Group, one of Vietnam's major insurers, has announced a VND1 trillion (US$43.89 million) investment fund specific for its ...

ISLAMABAD: The country’s export decreased by 13.42 per cent to $6.9 billion during the first four months (July-October) of current ...

BANGKOK: A large quantity of fake brandname sports clothing 2orth about 30 million baht was seized in raid on nine ...

NAIROBI: Kenya's army is involved in a $400-million sugar smuggling racket in Somalia that also funds the Al-Qaeda militants it ...

JOHOR BARU: The Johor Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry (KPDNKK) seized RM56,400 worth of counterfeit watches of various brands ...

KARACHI: The stocks Thursday came out of bearish trend and crossed 34,000 mark as the Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark KSE-100 ...

HANOI: Vietnamese legislators on Wednesday voted in support for a government's plan to issue US$3 billion worth of bonds in ...

WELLINGTON: The New Zealand dollar dropped against its trans-Tasman counterpart after Australian jobs data showed the unemployment rate fell below ...