Year: 2015

NAIROBI: Commercial banks made 114.2 billion shillings in pretax profits during the first nine months of this year. The profit ...

COLOMBO: Nations Trust Bank PLC (NTB) contracted its net profit by 18 percent to Rs. 680.9 million for the quarter ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore shares opened flat on Thursday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) down 9.13 points or 0.31 per cent ...

COLOMBO: The country’s largest mobile telecommunications operator Dialog Axiata PLC (Dialog) saw its net profits for the quarter ended September ...

BEIJING: China is planning to open more duty-free stores and facilitate the import of popular daily commodities to stimulate domestic ...

COLOMBO: Amãna Bank, Sri Lanka’s premier non-interest based banking institution, continued its upward profitability momentum by recording a 3Q profit ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks rose on Thursday, snapping a four-day losing streak as investors bargain hunted Apple Inc suppliers such as ...

WASHINGTON: US melamine imports for September were down by 41% from the same month a year ago, according to data ...

DOHA: Qatar has been one of the fastest growing countries in the region and the near-term macroeconomic outlook remains strong, ...

PERTH: The Australian market looks set to open lower after US shares mainly fell with a drop in oil prices ...

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has awarded a $2.6 billion contract to General Electric to develop and supply Indian Railways ...

HARARE: Allied Timbers plans to double export revenue in the first quarter next year, taking advantage of the growing demand ...

HARROW: A small planet, just a bit bigger than Earth, has been spotted in our stellar neighbourhood, just 39 light-years ...

BEIJING: Shanghai stocks opened the day in positive territory Thursday, with investors hoping China will unveil fresh measures to shore ...

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

HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks opened the day in positive territory Thursday, with investors hoping China will unveil fresh measures ...

CANADA: NASA confirmed that Mars’s moon Phobos is showing early signs of structural failure that will likely lead to the ...

HARARE: Innscor Africa’s capital expenditure fell by 21 percent to $38 million this year, as the group scaled down due ...

LONDON: Scientists have discovered what appear to be ice-spewing volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, raising questions about how the ...

TAIPEI: Asustek Computer Inc yesterday said sales and shipments for this quarter might grow 10 percent from last quarter on ...