Murunj Dam to generate 12 MW cheap electricity

ISLAMABAD, Jan 09 (APP):Murunj Dam Project to be constructed on Kaha Nullah, 116 km west of Rajanpur would generate 12 megawatt (MW) cheap and environmental-friendly electricity, while having the gross water storage of 800,000 acre feet. Kaha Nullah is one of the largest hill torrents […]

Foreign trade of China’s Inner Mongolia up 17.2 pct

HOHHOT, Jan 9 (XINHUA/APP):Foreign trade volume of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached over 112 billion yuan (about 17.6 billion U.S. dollars) from January to November 2021, up 17.2 percent year on year, the regional commerce department said Friday. The region’s imports in the […]

Turkey launches new high-speed rail line in central Anatolia

ANKARA, Jan 9 (XINHUA/APP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday inaugurated a high-speed rail line connecting the provinces of Konya and Karaman in central Anatolia. “We are determined to make Turkey a center country in railway transportation, like many other fields, by rapidly completing […]

Kosovo seizes hundreds of cryptocurrency mining devices

Pristina, Jan 8 (AFP/APP):Kosovo police on Saturday seized hundreds of cryptocurrency mining machines and arrested one person in the tense ethnic-Serb majority north as the country suffered an energy crisis. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are created through solving complex equations — an endeavour that consumes enormous […]

Eurozone inflation hit record high in December

Brussels, Jan 7 (AFP/APP):Eurozone inflation hit a record annual rate of five percent in December, the Eurostat agency said Friday, the highest level since 1997 when records began. The rate is a first estimate but confirms a trend led by soaring energy prices, rising from […]

Unemployment rate in Philippines down to 6.5 pct in November

MANILA, Jan 7 (XINHUA/APP):Around 3.16 million Filipinos were out of work in November, down from the 3.5 million recorded in October, according to a Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) survey released on Friday. “The country’s unemployment rate of 6.5 percent in November was the lowest since […]

LCCI, Alibaba, Nextbridge organize awareness seminar for LCCI members

LAHORE, Jan 06 (APP):As a part of its strategy to help businesses to have the exciting journey into the world of e-commerce, Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) organized an awareness seminar in collaboration with Alibaba and Nextbridge here at the LCCI on Thursday. […]

Tarin to launch FBR’s ‘National Sales Tax Return’ on Friday

ISLAMABAD, Jan 06 (APP):Building further on its ongoing drive for digitization to facilitate the taxpayers, promote ease of doing business and reduce compliance costs, FBR achieved one more milestone by developing National Sales Tax Return. This important project is all set to be launched by […]

Leather goods export increases 11% in 5 months

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4 (APP):The leather goods exports witnessed an increase of 11.03 percent during the first five months of current financial year (2021-22) as compared to the exports of corresponding period of last year. Pakistan exported leather goods worth US $266.595 million during July-November (2021-22) […]

Tibet’s GDP grows about 7 percent in 2021

LHASA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua/APP):The gross domestic product (GDP) of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region grew about 7 percent in 2021, said Yan Jinhai, acting chairman of the regional government. Tibet’s GDP surpassed 200 billion yuan (around 31.4 billion U.S. dollars) last year, said Yan in […]