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Japan, Nepal sign g-to-g labour pact

Japan, Nepal sign g-to-g labour pact

-- 2019-03-26 16:04:42

  KATHMANDU: Nepal has signed a memorandum of cooperation to send to Japan “specified skilled” workers for the first time, according to a report by www.japantimes.co.jp. The broad f...

Pakistan PM hints at finding massive oil reserves

Pakistan PM hints at finding massive oil reserves

-- 2019-03-26 15:09:24

DUBAI: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has hinted at finding ‘massive’ oil reserves in recent off-shore drilling off the coast of Karachi. “Pakistan will not need to import oil a...

Uber buys rival Careem in $3.1b deal to dominate ride-hailing in ME

Uber buys rival Careem in $3.1b deal to dominate ride-hailing in ME

-- 2019-03-26 14:11:40

Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc will spend $3.1 billion to acquire Middle East (ME) rival Careem, buying dominance in a competitive region ahead of a hotly anticipated initial public of...

Singapore's CPI inflation hits nine-month low

Singapore's CPI inflation hits nine-month low

-- 2019-03-25 14:51:49

The core inflation rate of Singapore eased to a nine-month low in February, reinforcing expectations that the central bank will keep monetary policy unchanged when it meets next month. The core infla...

Britain's financial sector has 'gloomiest outlook' since 2008

Britain's financial sector has 'gloomiest outlook' since 2008

-- 2019-03-25 13:41:06

Optimism about the business outlook among Britain’s financial services firms has fallen at its fastest rate since the 2008 financial crisis amid concerns about Britain’s exit from the Euro...

Indian shares slip; financials top drag

Indian shares slip; financials top drag

-- 2019-03-25 12:35:31

Indian shares slipped on Monday tracking Asian peers, with banking stocks taking the brunt, as fears of recession in the United States intensified. Concerns about the health of the world economy heig...

Asian shares fall; Nikkei tumbles

Asian shares fall; Nikkei tumbles

-- 2019-03-25 12:26:44

Asian shares fell on Monday after Wall Street ended last week with a broad retreat, while Thailand’s market saw a moderate loss following the general election. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock in...

Mali president disbands vigilante group after Fulani massacre

Mali president disbands vigilante group after Fulani massacre

-- 2019-03-25 11:27:49

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita sacked and replaced two generals and disbanded an anti-jihadi vigilante group on Sunday, a day after gunmen massacred 134 Fulani herders in the country&rs...

Caravan of 1,200 migrants in Mexico begins moving towards US

Caravan of 1,200 migrants in Mexico begins moving towards US

-- 2019-03-25 11:03:19

A caravan of some 1,200 migrants from Central America and Cuba began moving towards the US border from southern Mexico this weekend, migration authorities said on Sunday. The National Migration Insti...

New Zealand PM says will travel to China to meet Xi

New Zealand PM says will travel to China to meet Xi

-- 2019-03-25 10:51:47

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she will travel to China at the end of the week for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, amid concerns of strained relations be...

China 'confident' of achieving key 2019 economic targets

China 'confident' of achieving key 2019 economic targets

-- 2019-03-24 15:11:30

China’s economy may face a more challenging environment this year but the government is nevertheless confident of achieving its key 2019 targets, Vice Premier Han Zheng said on Sunday. Han, spe...

Mali gunmen kill at least 134 Fulani herders as UN visits

Mali gunmen kill at least 134 Fulani herders as UN visits

-- 2019-03-24 12:10:54

Gunmen killed at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali on Saturday, a local mayor said, the deadliest such attack of recent times in a region reeling from worsening ethnic and jihadist violence. T...

Mexico detains over 100 Central American migrants

Mexico detains over 100 Central American migrants

-- 2019-03-24 11:39:52

Mexican police and federal officials on Saturday detained 107 Central American migrants seeking to enter the United States in the border city of Reynosa, the government of the northeastern state of Ta...

Al Shabaab car bomb blast rocks Somali ministry building

Al Shabaab car bomb blast rocks Somali ministry building

-- 2019-03-23 15:32:38

Central Mogadishu was shaken on Saturday by a car bomb blast at a government ministry building, with Islamist group al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attack in the Somali capital. “The...

US-backed forces in Syria declare victory over IS

US-backed forces in Syria declare victory over IS

-- 2019-03-23 13:42:24

Islamic State has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared ‘calip...

US budget deficit reaches record $234b in Feb

US budget deficit reaches record $234b in Feb

-- 2019-03-23 11:02:17

The US federal budget deficit reached 234 billion US dollars in February, the biggest budget deficit on record for the month, the Treasury Department said Friday. The figure is 8.7 per cent up from t...

World stocks fall amid slowdown fears

World stocks fall amid slowdown fears

-- 2019-03-23 10:54:51

Markets in the UK and US have tumbled with analysts attributing the drop to growing fears of a global slowdown. The FTSE 100 saw its worst day of trading this year, closing 2% lower. In the US, the t...

US stocks tumble as weak factory data fuels slowdown worries

US stocks tumble as weak factory data fuels slowdown worries

-- 2019-03-23 10:46:31

Wall Street’s main indexes tumbled about 2.0 per cent on Friday after a raft of weak manufacturing data from the US and Europe led to an inverted yield curve, stoking fears of an economic slowdo...

26 die in China tour bus fire

26 die in China tour bus fire

-- 2019-03-23 10:44:53

Twenty six people were killed after a tour bus in which they were travelling caught fire in central China’s Hunan Province on Friday, local authorities said. The 28 injured in the incident were...

Special counsel Mueller delivers Trump-Russia report

Special counsel Mueller delivers Trump-Russia report

-- 2019-03-23 10:25:17

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his long-awaited report on alleged collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. The Attorney General William Barr will now summari...

Indian shares edge down on profit booking

Indian shares edge down on profit booking

-- 2019-03-22 14:39:13

Indian shares edged down on Friday as investors sold to benefit from recent gains, with losses in energy stocks outweighing gains in index heavyweights such as Larsen and Toubro. The broader NSE inde...

Bank of England holds interest rates steady

Bank of England holds interest rates steady

-- 2019-03-22 13:48:40

The Bank of England (BOE), the central bank of the country, on Thursday held the bank interest rate unchanged at 0.75 per cent. The lender said in its March Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) report r...

Asian stocks stumble on trade worries

Asian stocks stumble on trade worries

-- 2019-03-22 11:40:20

Asian markets were mostly lower on Friday as caution set in ahead of US-China trade talks in Beijing next week. The Shanghai Composite index gave up 0.8 per cent to 3,077.56 and Hong Kong’s Han...

Asian shares rise on Fed dovishness; growth concerns linger

Asian shares rise on Fed dovishness; growth concerns linger

-- 2019-03-21 14:16:01

Shares in Asia rose on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve abandoned forecasts for any interest rate hikes this year, but concerns over US-China trade talks and slowing global growth continued to we...

Brexit: Labour’s Corbyn to discuss ‘alternative’ plan with EU

Brexit: Labour’s Corbyn to discuss ‘alternative’ plan with EU

-- 2019-03-21 12:35:50

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will travel to Brussels on Thursday to discuss an ‘alternative’ Brexit plan with European Union (EU) leaders, including the bloc’s chief negotiato...

Australian unemployment rate hits eight-year low

Australian unemployment rate hits eight-year low

-- 2019-03-21 12:34:29

Australia’s jobless rate fell to a near eight-year low in February as a bumper run in employment extended, sending the local dollar sharply higher on expectations the country’s central ban...

NZ GDP grows 0.6pc in December 2018 quarter

NZ GDP grows 0.6pc in December 2018 quarter

-- 2019-03-21 11:41:11

New Zealand's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.6 per cent over the year in the December 2018 quarter, Statistics New Zealand (Stats NZ) figures showed on Thursday. "Growth in this quarter was led...

Tariffs on Chinese goods may stay for ‘substantial period’: Trump

Tariffs on Chinese goods may stay for ‘substantial period’: Trump

-- 2019-03-21 10:56:13

US President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that the United States may leave tariffs on Chinese goods for a ‘substantial period’ to ensure that Beijing complies with any trade agreement....

Indian shares pause for cues

Indian shares pause for cues

-- 2019-03-20 13:49:39

Indian were largely unchanged on Wednesday as investors looked for further cues before taking bets, with gains in IT and financials countering losses in consumer and energy scrips. The broader NSE in...

May to request short delay to Brexit: Sky

May to request short delay to Brexit: Sky

-- 2019-03-20 13:08:38

British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit in a letter to the European Union on Wednesday, Sky cited an unidentified senior government source as saying. The delay, nearly...