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BEIJING: Sina's Twitter-like social platform Weibo reported improved earnings in the first quarter thanks to higher social advertising income. Profit...

SHANGHAI: Shanghai’s  Consumer Price Index, the main gauge of inflation, grew 2.6 percent from a year earlier in April, according...

BEIJING: China's electricity consumption rose 1.3 percent year on year in April, reaching 441.5 billion kilowatt hours (kwh), the National...

TOKYO: Japan’s big trading houses, stung by large asset writedowns in the wake of the global commodities slump, plan to...

BEIJING: China's foreign service trade reached $149.54 billion in the first quarter, up 10.6 percent from the same period last...

BEIJING: Chinese non-performing loans grew to 1.43 trillion yuan ($234.1 billion) and the bad loan rate rose to 1.6 percent...

BERLIN: : Defence Secretary Philip Hammond signalled that Britain will not insist on major treaty change during negotiations over the...

ANKARA: Russia's foreign minister has urged the European Union to support the idea of a Moscow-backed pipeline that would bring...

BRUSSELS: State infrastructure agencies Gaslink and Gas Networks Ireland said the new 50km natural pipeline will enhance Ireland's energy security....

NEW DELHI: Lenovo's A7000 budget 4G LTE-enabled smartphone will be availkable today. The fifth flash sale will commence at 2pm...

HANOI: Vietnamese and Belarusian food and agricultural enterprises gathered at a business meeting in Ha Noi. Co-organised by the Viet...

HANOI: Tata Motors, India's biggest automotive company signed a distribution, supply and technology license agreement for commercial vehicles with Vietnam-based...

NEW DELHI: 10% import duty, annual demand pegged at 840 tonnes, low prosecution rate make gold smuggling a lucrative option...

ANKARA: The yearly cost of Turkey's agricultural imports have risen more than four times since the Justice and Development Party...

HANOI: Vietnam's Ministry of Finance recently issued Circular No. 36/2015/TT-BTC, which placed a two percent tax on the export of...

HANOI: Vietnamese police have detained three young men in Hanoi for stealing information from over 48,000 bank credit profiles and...

CANBERRA: Little is known as to how exactly the buoy – no bigger than a standard box trailer – became...

CANBERRA: Australia will more than double an area near the Great Barrier Reef subject to special curbs on shipping in...

CANBERRA: Australian police said yesterday a 66-year-old Hong Kong man has been charged with attempting to bring some 150 kilograms...

WELLINGON: New-Zealand-based Zespri International Ltd is all set to launch its Kiwifruit under the brand name Sungold in India soon....