From January to August 2025, Pakistan exported rice worth USD 44.31 million to China, compared with USD 26.30 million during the same period last year, marking a 68.5% increase. The surge highlights Pakistan’s expanding presence in China’s food market and the strengthening of agricultural cooperation between the two countries. An official from Pakistan’s Ministry of […]
Pakistan has launched a new satellite with the help of China. The satellite was made by SUPARCO, Pakistan’s space agency. It will help the country with many important tasks like city planning, disaster management, farming, and protecting the environment. This new satellite has modern cameras and sensors. It will help Pakistan watch changes in the […]
The Indian rupee jumped out of the blocks to touch its year-to-date high of 84.95 per U.S. dollar before swinging to its day’s low of 85.3875. It ended down 0.3% at 85.2625. In contrast, its regional peers were lifted by hopes of softening global trade tensions. China’s yuan strengthened to a one-month high, while the […]
The world’s second-largest economy has yet to achieve a highly anticipated post-pandemic recovery, and the government has set a goal of five percent growth in 2024 — an objective analysts say is optimistic given the headwinds it is facing. On Tuesday, central bank chief Pan Gongsheng told a news conference in Beijing that it would […]
Brent crude futures for November rose 8 cents to $73.73 a barrel by 0015 GMT, while WTI crude futures for October declined 3 cents to $70.88 a barrel. The U.S. central bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point on Wednesday. Interest rate cuts typically boost economic activity and energy demand, but the market […]
The Kazakhstan-based producer Kaspi Neft “did not receive a (permit)… for accumulating over 4,500 tonnes of dangerous waste between 2021 and 2022 from drilling and operation of an oil field”, prosecutors for Kazakhstan’s Atyrau region bordering the Caspian Sea said in a statement released Monday. A court hearing Friday found that the company had committed […]
The iCube Qamar was launched on board China’s Chang’e-6 from Hainan, China, on May 3. According to the Institute of Space Technology, the satellite ICUBE-Q has been designed and developed by IST in collaboration with China’s Shanghai University SJTU and Pakistan’s national space agency SUPARCO. Chang’e6 is the sixth in a series of China’s lunar […]
