Russian grain export in 2015/2016 agricultural year drops slightly

MOSCOW: Russia’s trade with the EU’s eastern states fell by almost a third in 2015, as sanctions over Crimea and...

Imports of PC granules into Russia fall 4% in January 2016

MOSCOW: Russia's imports of polycarbonate (PC) totalled 315 tonnes in January 2016, down 64% year on year, according to a...

China’s foreign trade drops 9.8% to $288bn in Jan

BEIJING: China's foreign trade dropped 9.8 percent on a year-on-year basis to 1.88 trillion yuan ($288 billion) in January, while...

Chinese consumers buy nearly half of world’s luxury products

BEIJING: Chinese consumers spent 1.2 trillion yuan ($183 billion) abroad last year, with the goods they bought ranging from luxuries...

Investment in water projects tops $300m in 5 years

BEIJING: China invested more than 2 trillion yuan ($300 billion) in water conservation during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015),...

Spring Festival tourism revenue jumps 16.3% to $55.7bn

BEIJING: China's tourism revenue surged during the Spring Festival holiday, the National Tourism Administration said on Sunday. Tourism revenue reached...

KPK traders keen to boost trade, economic relations with Tajikistan

PESHAWAR: The business community has called for the removal of impediments to give further boost to the trade and economic...

Dar directs SECP to complete process of shares divestment in PSX

ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Sunday, chairing a meeting of senior officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission of...

PR aims to generate Rs 37.8 billion in ongoing fiscal year

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways is confident to generate Rs 37.8 billion revenue during the current financial year under a multi-pronged strategy...

USAID helps provide electricity to 68 villages of S Waziristan

ISLAMABAD: As many as 86 villages of South Waziristan Agency has been provided electricity through the United States Agency for...

Railways to manufacture 186 coaches in its factory

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railway will manufacture 186 out of 250 coaches in its own factory. The PC-I has been finalised for...

Seminar on women entrepreneurship capacity enhancement

RAWALPINDI: A two-day seminar on Women Entrepreneurship Capacity Enhancement (WECE) has been organised by the Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU),...

Mobilink tops PTA’s Quality of Service survey

ISLAMABAD: The country’s biggest cellular company, Mobilink, has topped the annual Quality of Service (QoS) survey and surpassed key performance...

SCCI for enhancing export volume

SIALKOT: Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) President Mansoor Ahmed on Sunday said that SCCI had focused its special...

2820MW electricity thru Tarbela’s extension projects: Abid

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Water and Power Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali has said the Tarbela 4th and 5th extension...

LNG deal with Qatar to help revive CNG sector: Paracha

ISLAMABAD: The CNG association has appreciated the recent deal to import Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Qatar and hoped that...

$2.21/month: Pakistan 4th cheapest regional country in mobile cost

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is the fourth cheapest market in the region in terms of monthly cost of owning a mobile phone....

Ahsan briefs students on country’s economic growth

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal has briefed the youths on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Metro...

Beef export to UAE rose by 24% to $43.61m in 2014-15