Year: 2015

TOKYO: Japan's trade deficit swelled to a record $109 billion in 2014, data showed Monday, mostly because of huge post-Fukushima ...

MOSCOW: Russia govt banned salt imports from a state Ukrainian producer, citing a violation of legislation. Rospotrebnadzor said it had ...

RAWALPINDI: Metro Bus Service Project’s head Hanif Abbasi has said that the ‘international standard’ project is being completed in record ...

DUBLIN: €200,000 worth of cannabis has been seized at Dublin Airport. Revenue Customs Service seized 10 kilos of herbal cannabis ...

LUTOR: The priceless funeral mask of Tutankhamen has been damaged at the Cairo museum, causing curators to glue it back ...

HARARE: The fertiliser industry is lobbying government to impose a 25 percent duty on compound or basal fertilisers in order ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reviewed the prevailing energy crisis during a high level meeting. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, ...

BEIJING: China's yuan declined sharply Monday to its weakest level in seven months, pressed lower by the central bank (CB) ...

DUBAI: UAE stocks edged weaker on Monday, with Dubai index losing more than half a per cent. The Dubai Financial ...

SHANGHAI: Chinese stocks were mixed in morning trade Monday as shareholders shied away from heavyweight financials and chased small firms, ...

KARACHI – Data provided by the Ports and Shipping Division revealed that Gwadar will be declared a Special Economic Zone ...

ANKARA: Turkish inflation and real interest rates are likely to keep falling, central bank Governor Erdem Başçı was quoted on ...

NEW YORK: Around 460 acres have burned in a wildfire that has devastated a rare native forest on the island ...

LONDON: The British Customs and immigration authorities have searched two Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft as they landed in London. ...

BERLIN: Germany has decided to stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of "instability in the region," reported German daily ...

MEXICO: Scientists say they've figured out a way to unboil an egg, a not-so-frivolous accomplishment that could strengthen the efficiency ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs successfully obtained a Confiscation Order under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance from the Court ...

FORTALEZA: Brazilian scientists have discovered a protein in coffee that has effects similar to pain reliever morphine, researchers at the ...

HONG KONG: Job growth in Hong Kong’s highly paid financial services sector is set to jump 15 per cent in ...

KOREA: A report said that Samsung will be manufacturing around 75 percent of processors for the iPhone 6S and iPhone ...