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The US has filed a complaint against China at the World Trade Organisation over the nearly $3 billion of antidumping and countervailing duties that ...

Chemical substances that may cause severe side-effects have been detected in eight counterfeit healthcare products, including weight-loss pills, the ...

The nuclear accident at Fukushima last year was a “man-made disaster” and not only due to the tsunami, a Japanese parliamentary panel said today in ...

“Titanic” star Leonardo DiCaprio, who is a committed environmentalist, has sealed his green credentials by becoming an equity investor in an electric ...

China has started stockpiling rare earths for strategic reserves, a state-backed newspaper said today, in a move which may raise more worries over ...

Gold production in China, the world’s largest producer of the yellow metal, grew by 6.59 per cent to 140.7 tonnes in the first five months of this ...

Driven by significant surge in gold and rupee futures trading, June volumes on the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) jumped over 231 per cent ...

Attempts to forge the controversial Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, better known as ACTA, has been struck a blow after the European Parliament ...

A team of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will visit India later this year to evaluate standards of Indian service providers amid ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today pared its growth forecast for the US economy and warned that the Obama administration could be slicing the ...

The charges may wipe out any profit for Microsoft’s fourth quarter.

Mihin Lanka Airlines will be commencing its flight service in the Madurai-Colombo sector in the first week of September. Mr Jegatheesan, President, ...

Queen Elizabeth of Britain publicly shaking hands with Martin McGuinness, former senior commander of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), during her visit ...

Eastman Kodak has said that the US bankruptcy court has approved its bid to sell more than 1,100 patents related to digital imaging, a move aimed at ...

The World Bank Chief, Mr Jim Yong Kim warned today that the Eurozone Crisis poses a deep risk for the global economy and said it was urgent that ...

China’s software industry grew slightly faster in the first five months of this year, boosted by government’s preferential tax policies. The ...

After allegations by the European Commissioner for Competition, Mr Joaquin Almunia, of possible abuse of its dominance as an internet search engine, ...

A New York judge ordered Twitter to turn over data on one of its users involved in the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, in a case watched closely ...

The Mexican Government has declared a national animal health emergency in the face of a bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million ...

The image of banks has sunk to a new low, after allegations that banks like Barclays tried to manipulate Libor rates.

Singapore’s trade promotion agency will lead a delegation of investors to Gujarat to study infrastructure projects and the possibility of investments, ...

A reactor at the Oi nuclear power plant in western Japan reached criticality today after it became the first one to be rebooted last night in the ...

Apple has paid $60 million to a Chinese firm settling its long-standing dispute over the iPad trademark in China, a court said today, paving the way ...

Barclays today said its Chairman, Mr Marcus Agius, has resigned following the bank being slapped with £290 million ($451 million) fine by the US and ...