Year: 2015

LONDON: Standard Chartered PLC, a Britain-based banking group, Tuesday announced it would cut 15,000 jobs by 2018 and raise 3.3 ...

HONG KONG: Scientists since long have been trying to find a way to grow crops in space. But now Queensland ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's Land Registry recorded 4,491 sale and purchase agreements for all building units in October, down 17.9 ...

HANOI: The Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has proposed that the Government raise limits on foreign stakes ...

BEIJING: Gross domestic production(GDP) per capita has increased to about $7,800 in the country with more than 1.3 billion people, ...

SYDNEY: The Australian dollar continued to be strong against the other major counterparts in the Asian session on Wednesday after ...

HANOI: Retail gasoline prices in Vietnam were reduced by between 4.2 and 4.9 percent at the request of the Ministry ...

SEOUL: South Korea's won firmed slightly on Wednesday morning, buoyed by new signs of strength in China's services sector that ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore  share prices opened stronger on Wednesday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) up 12.70 points or 0.42 per ...

SYDNEY: Australia posted a seasonally adjusted trade deficit of A$2.3 billion in September, as a strong rise in exports narrowed ...

NEW DELHI: NASA's Cassini-Huygens flyby mission has been in the news for quite some time. Just days after unveiling new ...

BEIJING: JD.com Inc, China's second-largest e-commerce site, filed a complaint to industry authority claiming that its rival Alibaba Group Holding ...

PARIS: How did you do it? Did you poke it with a pin? Or did you overinflate it until it ...

BEIJING: China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp, the country's largest food trader, is planning to import 3.5 million metric ...

MUMBAI: The rupee appreciated by 11 paise to 65.53 against the dollar in early trade today on selling of the ...

HONG KONG: Global banking giant HSBC saw quarterly profit surge on the back of lower fines, beating expectations, but turnover ...

PARIS: Volkswagen saw sales drop 3 percent in France last month, figures showed yesterday, as it continued to deal with ...

WASHINGTON: Exports of manufactured goods contributed significantly to the state’s international trade, accounting for 75 percent of all state exports ...

BERLIN: BMW beat expectations with a 20 percent increase in third-quarter net profit from a year earlier, as the German ...

SKOPJE: Macedonian Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rose by 6.0 percent in the first eight months of 2015, statistics data show, ...