BEIJING: Chinese companies continued to invest big in the overseas market in the first five months of the year, official...

LONDON: Ports of Jersey has taken responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of the Steam Clock, the Treasury Minister has...

BEIJING: China's electricity consumption rose 2.1 percent year on year in May, reaching 473 billion kilowatt hours (kwh), official data...

WASHINGTON: PD Ports has welcomed one of the biggest wind farm installation vessels in the world, Pacific Orca, to its...

WASHINGTON: Ongoing investments in infrastructure and the global trend of using bigger containerships to move freight will help the State...

TAIPEI: International investments saw a net asset position of US$1.0539 trillion as of the end of last year, making the...

NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs Group Inc is causing headaches for fellow Wall Street banks that are trying to offload US$3...

SYDNEY: Virgin Australia is tapping investors in a cash call worth more than 80 percent of its market value, aiming...

LONDON: Despite pressures from overfishing and changing ocean conditions, some coral reefs around the world manage to defy expectations. In...

PARIS: France's President Francois Hollande has ratified the Paris Agreement, a deal on curbing global warming reached last year by...

LONDON: For the second time this year, physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) are giddy with...

MINSK: The memorandum of cooperation in training personnel has been signed by the customs bodies of Belarus and the People's...

AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands has recorded the second-largest drug bust in its history, involving a container of pineapples from Costa Rica....

TOKYO: Asian stocks turned lower on Thursday and the yen surged after the Bank of Japan refrained from taking further...

FRANKFURT: Stocks across Europe finished higher Wednesday as investors took on risk after five straight days of losses and ahead...

TORONTO: Canada's benchmark stock index closed higher on Wednesday after five days of declines, with miners and other materials stocks...

NEW YORK: Early gains for U.S. stocks faded in the final half-hour of trading Wednesday, leading major indexes to their...

KARACHI: As situation is very tense at Torkhum, not a single person or a cargo truck could cross the border...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF) President Mian Zahid Hussain on Wednesday lauded Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif for...

LAHORE: National Vocational Training Commission Executive Director Zulfiqar Ahmed Cheema Wednesday said that the Punjab Growth Strategy-2018 would provide employment...