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China puts hold on multiple projects in Pakistan after 9 Chinese engineers
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan] July 22 (ANI): After nine Chinese engineers lost their lives in the bus attack, Beijing has postponed its high-level joint committee for the Belt and Road Initiative halting a billion-dollar hydropower project in Pakistan.
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Pakistan currency falls by 64 paisa against US dollar
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 17 (ANI): Pakistan's currency has dropped by 64 paise against the dollar, owing to the high demand for import payments on the last day of the trading week.
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Automobile exports reached 23.6 billion dollar in first half, highest in 7
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 16 (ANI/Global Economic): Automobile exports in the first half of 2021 achieved the highest performance in seven years despite difficulties in procurement automobile components due to COVID-19 outbreak.
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'Wall Street can no longer calculate risk of investing in Chinese firms'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US] July 10 (ANI): Chinese President XI Jinping recently delivered a big blow to Wall Street investors when he crushed a tech giant after US investors pumped billions of dollars in it.
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Spurt in outsourcing, digital deals to drive IT rebound: Crisil
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 8 (ANI): The 100 billion dollar information technology (IT) services sector will stage a strong recovery this fiscal with revenue growth of 10 to 11 per cent, according to Crisil Ratings.
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Geneva: Photo exhibition highlights human rights abuses in Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva (Switzerland) July 7 (ANI): A photo exhibition has been organised at Broken Chair, a famous icon in front of the United Nations office in Geneva, highlighting the atrocities and the human rights abuses in Pakistan's Balochistan province that have collaborated with the multi-billion do
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Pak minister decries Sindh High Court order to ban TikTok, calls for judic
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 30 (ANI): Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has slammed the recent Sindh High Court's decision to ban the Chinese app TikTok, saying the country has suffered losses worth billions of dollars due to "judicial activism".
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Global economy can lose $4 trillion due to Covid-19 impact on tourism: UNC
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 30 (ANI): The crash in international tourism due to coronavirus pandemic can cause a loss of more than four trillion dollars to the global GDP for the years 2020 and 2021, according to an UNCTAD report published on Wednesday.
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World Bank approves 130 million USD to help Kenya fight COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nairobi, June 30 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Bank said it has approved 14 billion shillings (about 130 million U.S. dollars) additional financing to help Kenya facilitate affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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America plans to spend billions of dollars to counter China
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): The US plans a massive spending plan to counter China. According to the Senate, China is America's greatest geopolitical and geo-economic challenge and passed the United States Innovation and Competition Act 2021 to spend more than USD 250 billion to ensure th
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Uzbekistan to get 380 mln USD World Bank concessional loan for electricity
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) June 29 (ANI/Xinhua) The World Bank has approved a concessional loan of 380 million U.S. dollars for Uzbekistan to transform the electricity sector and ensure reliable energy supplies to millions of households and businesses across the country, said the bank on Monday.
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'F9: The Fast Saga' smashes pandemic-era opening record in North America
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Los Angeles [US], June 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Universal's action film "F9: The Fast Saga" dominated North American box office with a huge 70 million U.S. dollars opening from 4,179 theaters, smashing pandemic-era weekend box office record in the region.
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