Business & Economy

BEIJING, Mar 17 (APP): Cheng Xizhong, Visiting Professor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law and Senior Fellow of the Charhar Institute on Thursday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s policies to encourage exports are producing great results. Over the past year, under the […]

BEIJING, March 17 (APP): China’s Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS) and the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) have discussed a roadmap for boosting agricultural cooperation in the future, with advanced Chinese technologies to be transferred to Pakistan. Gansu and Pakistan share similarities in climate, […]

SINGAPORE, March 17 (Xinhua/APP): Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) grew by 9.5 percent year on year in February following the 17.6 percent growth in January, Enterprise Singapore, a government agency, announced on Thursday. It is the 15th consecutive month for Singapore’s NODX to see year-on-year […]

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua/APP): The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China’s interbank market, decreased 3.1 basis points to 2.009 percent Thursday. The seven-day rate dropped 3.2 basis points to 2.083 percent, the one-month rate edged down 0.1 basis […]

BEIJING – March 16 (ONLINE) Escalating sanctions on Russia are complicating the global economic recovery process, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a telephone conversation with his Dutch counterpart Wopke Hoekstra. “The US and Europe keep tightening sanctions on Russia. As for the difficult […]

Lahore, March 16 (Online): Provincial Minister for Industry and Commerce Mian Aslam Iqbal has said that millions of people have benefited from various schemes of easy loans of Punjab Small Industries Corporation. Hundreds of thousands of people have got employment with the issuance of easy […]

RAWALPINDI, Mar 16 (APP): A delegation of FPCCI led by Chairman Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, Chairman Businessmen Panel & former President FPCCI Mian Anjum Nisar visited the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) here on Wednesday. Irfan Iqbal Sheikh congratulated the leadership of RCCI on […]

ISLAMABAD, Mar 16 (APP): Minister for Water Resources, Moonis Elahi, chaired the 18th meeting of the Project Steering Committee of Dasu Hydropower Project. Three agenda items were discussed in the meeting including the approval of the proposal of the Govt of KP on the modus […]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 16 (Xinhua/APP) –:Amazon announced Tuesday that it will invest over 124.4 million U.S. dollars to build 1,060 affordable homes near four public transit sites, working in partnership with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) and Sound Transit, the transit system serving […]

ZHENGZHOU, March 16 (Xinhua/APP):Cotton futures closed higher Wednesday in daytime trading on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE). The most active cotton contract for May 2022 delivery gained 225 yuan (about 35.27 U.S. dollars) to close at 21,345 yuan per tonne. On Wednesday, the total trading […]