China’s manufacturing sector sees increase in R&D investment in 2012-2021

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) APP):China’s manufacturing sector saw an increase in research and development (R&D) investment during the 2012-2021 period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Tuesday. Investment in the sector’s R&D rose from 0.85 percent in 2012 to 1.54 percent in […]

Chinese shares higher at midday Tuesday

BEIJING,July 26 (Xinhua/APP): China’s major stock indices ended higher in the morning session Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.81 percent at 3,276.71 points. The Shenzhen Component Index gained 1.07 percent to 12,423.02 points at midday. […]

Official foreign exchange rates in Georgia

TBILISI, July 26 (Xinhua/APP) –:The following are official foreign exchange rates against Lari released by the National Bank of Georgia, the country’s central bank, on Tuesday. Currency Unit Averaged U.S.dollar 1 2.7917 Euro 1 2.8534 British pound 1 3.3606 Japanese Yen 100 2.0466 Russian Ruble […]

Pakistan in well-placed position to facilitate SCO members: Zhang Ming

BEIJING, July 24 (APP): Pakistan is well placed position for facilitating the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members in improving regional connectivity as the Central Asia countries are land-locked, and Pakistan is ideally located to provide shorter sea access to these countries, Secretary General of SCO […]

Volkswagen to change CEO and style with departure of Diess

Frankfurt, July 22 (AFP/APP): Volkswagen unexpectedly announced Friday that its CEO Herbert Diess will step down in a few weeks after four years at the head of the German auto giant as it attempts an ambitious shift towards electric vehicles. Diess’s will leave the helm […]

Ukraine, Russia set to sign deal to reopen grain export ports

KYIV, MOSCOW – July 22 (ONLINE) Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, Turkey and the United Nations said, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion can be eased, […]

We are concerned over declining value of Pakistani rupee: Bloomberg

Islamabad, July 22 (Online): the international magazine Bloomberg has said Pakistan rupee has devalued most after 1998. It said that Pakistani currency lost its value by 7.9 percent during the current week. We have apprehensions over the declining value of rupee. Pakistan can meet its […]

We will ask banks to scale down interest rate: Finance minister

ISLAMABAD, July 22 (Online): Finance minister Miftah Ismail has said we will ask banks to reduce interest rate. He tweeted “A meeting has been held in State Bank just now. Government will continue Mera Pakistan Mera Ghar housing loan scheme for all those people whose […]