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Chinese investors become second largest foreign players with 21% investment in French vineyards
BEIJING: Chinese investors have become the second largest foreign players in French vineyards, just after Britain, according to a study...
NDRC approves seven airports, rail projects
BEIJING: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved seven airports and railway infrastructure projects, worth a total investment...
PU teachers protest against Metro Orange Train’s route
LAHORE: The Punjab University employees have protested against the proposed Metro Orange Train Project on The Mall, demanding changes in...
China’s UnionPay aims to become global bank card company
BEIJING: China UnionPay aims to become a global bank card company, Ge Huayong, chairman of China UnionPay and UnionPay International,...
Tokyo stocks end 0.12pc higher, Nikkei 225 adds 24.11pts
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks have ended 0.12 per cent higher as concern about Greece's troubled debt reform talks capped early gains...
China currency swap deals surpass $483b: PBOC
BEIJING: The value of currency-swap deals between China and other countries surpassed 3 trillion yuan ($483 billion), highlighting the internationalization...
Telangana’ CID handles cough syrup smuggling case against Abbott
HYDERABAD: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) Telangana has registered a case against Abbott Health Care Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of...
13kg gold seized at Cochin International Airport, 11 arrested
NEW DELHI: A probe by the Special Intelligence and Investigation branch of the Customs House, Kochi, into the seizure of...
Investigators arrest 5 on smuggling 1pound meth into Hawaii
MAKIKI: Five people are in federal custody accused of smuggling pounds of almost pure crystal methamphetamine into the state. It...
China industrial output hikess 6.1% in May
BEIJING: Stabilizing levels of industrial production in May could help drive China's economic growth toward a more solid second quarter,...
Hong Kong investors expand their operations in Qianhai Free Trade Zone
HONG KONG: Hong Kong companies are expanding their operations in the new Qianhai Free Trade Zone, an area of Shenzhen...
Hubble captures detailed image of the loneliest galaxy
DUBLIVE: In point, significantly like animals, galaxies and stars have a tendency to cluster alongside one another, not by survival...
Homeward bound trip feel shorter than outward bound trips, study
ELY: A team of scientists at Kyoto University discover that a homeward bound trip feel shorter than outward bound trips,...
Ancient genomes reveal mass migrations during the Bronze Age
LUSAKA: Morten Allentoft and Eske Willerslev are paleogenomicists with the Natural History Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen. Together, they led...
Reef could be listed ‘in danger,’ lawyers believe
PERTH: Lawyers believe the Great Barrier Reef could be listed as 'in danger' despite the World Heritage Committee indicating it...
Water droplet based computer developed by Stanford engineers
HARROW: A team of Stanford engineers led by assistant professor of bioengineering Manu Prakesh have created a miniature computer which...
NASA finds glass on Mars may proof alien life
CANADA: Glass deposits could hold key to past life by trapping organic molecules for thousands of years. A startling discovery...
NASA’s Hubble Telescope detects ‘sunscreen’ layer on distant planet
EUROPE: A massive and blazing hot distant exoplanet has a stratosphere, a "sunscreen" layer that's one of the main layers...
Comet 67P image show small glint of light that may just be ESA’s lost Philae Lander
WASHINGTON: New images of Comet 67P show a small glint of light that may just be the European Space Agency's...
Indian MP fears new laws will promote smuggling of artefacts
MUMBAI: India's culture minister Ma hesh Sharma has a simple solution to India's best kept secret: In the past two...
