-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
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