HONG KONG: Asian markets started 2015 on an upswing in limited trading on Friday, with mainland Chinese stocks surging in Hong Kong on speculation Beijing may ease monetary policy to boost slowing growth. Hong Kong rose 1.07 percent, closing 252.78 … read more
WASHINGTON: The United States imposed financial sanctions Friday on North Korea and several senior government officials in retaliation for a cyber attack on Hollywood studio Sony Pictures. President Barack Obama said he ordered the sanctions because of “the provocative, destabilizing, … read more
MIAMI: Cancer is often caused by the “bad luck” of random mutations that arise when cells divide, not family history or environmental causes, US researchers said Thursday. The study in the January 2 edition of the journal Science was led … read more
PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA, Indonesia: International experts equipped with sophisticated acoustic detection devices joined search teams scouring the sea off Borneo on Friday in the hunt for the black box flight recorders from a crashed Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet. Bad weather has … read more
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday, sent an invitation for January 8 to Pakistani officials for Pakistan-Afghanistan security talks, in Kabul. Earlier on Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had telephoned Ghani to discuss bilateral relations and regional security. … read more