AFP, SHANGHAI: Beijing has pledged to open up more economic sectors to foreign investment, an official statement said, as foreign chambers of commerce…

AFP, BEIJING: The world's highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said yesterday. The Beipanjiang Bridge soars 565 metres (1,854 feet) above a river and connects…

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki yesterday said Bangladesh will not be able to become a developed country keeping half of its population - women – unskilled, BSS reports from Cox’s Bazar. "About 2 crore unskilled women are currently confined…

AFP, MUMBAI: A deadline for Indians to deposit invalid rupee notes at banks closes yesterday as attention turns towards the potential political ramifications…

AFP, SHANGHAI: China is the world’s second-largest economy and has one of the fastest growth rates of any G20 nation, but its stock markets have…

AFP, MOSCOW: Russian inflation fell to 5.4 per cent in 2016, the lowest annual rate since the collapse of the Soviet Union a quarter century ago, a preliminary estimate from the Rosstat national statistics agency showed Friday. The previous record for the lowest annual inflation rate was in 2011, when…

AFP, CARACAS: Venezuela's oldest daily newspaper, El Impulso, a sharp critic of President Nicolas Maduro, is halting production because of a paper shortage, its publisher said Thursday. Founded in 1904, the paper will suspend publication from Saturday because the state company charged with importing…

AFP, SINGAPORE: Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC will pay close to $60 million for a 50 percent stake in a leisure and dining development in Britain, a joint statement said yesterday. GIC, one of the world's top 10 state investment funds, will pay British property firm Hammerson £48.5…