WASHINGTON: Tapping into the ostensibly "magical fount" of quantum mechanics could possibly result to an outpouring of new and ground-breaking...

CAIRO: Cairo Airport thwarted the smuggling attempt of 177 Egyptian, Libyan, Saudi and Iraqi archaeological currencies by an Egyptian passenger...

HONG KONG: Scientists previously thought that dinosaurs evolved from their smaller ancestors over a period of at least 10 million...

JAKARTA: Pakistan and Indonesia have signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) on rice import. The MoU was signed by Indonesian Trade...

ANKARA: Turkish state pipeline company BOTAS imported 33.06 billion cubic meters of gas from various sources in Jan.-Oct. 2015, compared...

TOKYO: Japan will more than double its quota for imports of South Korean nori to 2.7 billion sheets, the Fisheries...

HANOI: The heady growth in Vietnam's textiles industry, expected to export $28bn this year, is to take its cotton imports...

CANBERRA: Australia’s citrus export industry continues to enjoy a remarkable turnaround in fortunes, with shipments for 2015 expanding by almost...

SINGAPORE: Singapore stocks opened marginally lower on Thursday following a retreat overnight in US equities, with the Straits Times Index...

SEOUL: South Korean stocks opened nearly flat Thursday in an atmosphere of caution heading into the upcoming U.S. rate-setting meeting....

MANILA: Exports in October dropped by 10.8 percent year-on-year to $4.59 billion, down from the $5.15 billion posted in the...

FAISALABAD: The growers in Punjab have been advised to complete sunflower cultivation by mid January to get bumper crops. A...

CAIRO: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation has agreed to supply Egypt with about 500,000 barrels of crude oil per month, to be...

TAIPEI: Taiwan stocks fell to their lowest in more than two months on Thursday as weakness took hold of regional...

ISLAMABAD: Italian Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has called on Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Reform Ahsan Iqbal and expressed interest...

FRANCE: A military satellite named Kanopus ST is reported to have been lost in space after it failed to separate...

MEXICO: The race to put the first private robot lander on the moon is heating up as a second company...

ISLAMABAD: Indonesia will import more than one million metric tons of Pakistani white rice worth $400m from next year to...

SYDNEY: Australian stocks have slipped more than one percent on Thursday, led by heavy losses in Australia's banks weighing on...

KUALA LUMPUR: Berjaya Food Bhd (BFood) reported a 96.21% fall in its net profit for its second quarter ended Oct...