HANOI: About 20 companies are projected to launch initial public offerings (IPOs) on domestic exchanges this month with a total...

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee Thursday depreciated against the US dollar both in open market and interbank. According to the local...

  ROME: European stock markets declined for a third straight session on Thursday, as investors were hesitant of making any...

  TOKYO: Japanese stocks fell for a third day after the yen jumped against the dollar by the most in...

WASHINGTON: COST succumbed to a negative earnings surprise in the first quarter of fiscal 2016. The company reported earnings of...

TOKYO: Stocks extended losses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, dragged down by the yen’s ascent against the dollar. The...

LONDON: Sunbelt Rentals posted revenue of $1,685.1 million in its fiscal first half ended October 31, compared to $1.367.9 million...

HANOI: European investors are eyeing further investments in Viet Nam, the Ambassador and head of the European Union (EU) Delegation...

WASHINGTON: The Ceratopsia family is growing again. Researchers have described a new species of plant-eating dinosaur, Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis, that stood...

BEIJING: China’s stocks fell amid concern the government’s efforts to make domestic consumption and services a bigger part of the...

CANADA: Cassini has sent across fresh images of Saturn’s Prometheus and Titan revealing the surface features of the two moons...

MEXICO: Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from...

DOHA: While lower oil prices will negatively affect Qatar’s government revenues, large financial assets provide a sizeable buffer, says Moody’s...

PERTH: Surprisingly strong employment figures have dashed hopes for further Reserve Bank interest rate cuts, sparking a sell-off in big...

WASHINGTON: The Milky Way, like most galaxies, has a supermassive black hole sitting right in its centre. Now, for the...

NEW YORK: A Raymondville man is in federal custody after federal agents say he tried to smuggle more than half...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong shares weakened on Thursday, pulled lower by resource shares, as investors remained wary of falling commodity...

KARACHI: Rs2,015.975 million (over Rs2 billion) have been disbursed amongst the pensioners and collected Rs1,091.170m (almost Rs2 billion) as contribution...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the government has expanded the network of income support programme to...

NEW DELHI: Import restrictions on gold led to a rise in its smuggling and the various ways adopted to illicitly...