ATHENS: Greece's main telecom provider OTE has sold a majority stake in the country's sole satellite operator Hellas Sat to Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat,...
ATHENS: Greece's main telecom provider OTE has sold a majority stake in the country's sole satellite operator Hellas Sat to Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat,...
TOKYO: A Japanese railway has unveiled a new Shinkansen bullet train featuring an improved braking feature to enhance safety during earthquakes. The Central...
NAIROBI: Cattle raiders killed at least seven people on Friday in Kenya's volatile Rift Valley province, police said. "Seven people were killed when...
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Changi Airport, considered one of the best in the world, said on Friday it will boost passenger handling capacity by around...
SEOUL: South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye on Friday named Chung Hong-won, a former prosecutor who served as the ruling party's election nomination chief,...
TOKYO: Japan will give a $3 billion loan to Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), state-run by OPEC-member United Arab Emirates, to help...
BAGHDAD: A spate of car bombs in Shiite areas of Iraq, including two blasts minutes apart at a popular bird market, killed at...
TOKYO: Japanese public relations company Dentsu will open an office in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon next week, in the latest push by a...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks tumbled 1.80 percent on profit-taking after it hit a four and a half-year high this week and as the yen...
DHAKA: A ferry carrying more than 50 people sank on Bangladesh's giant Meghna River on Friday after colliding with a sand barge and...
PHNOM PENH: A five-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, bringing the country's toll from the deadly virus to five so far...
DUBAI: Bahrain's national dialogue is set to resume Sunday in an atmosphere of mutual mistrust between government and the opposition ahead of the...
TOKYO: Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry will not launch its new models in Japan, reports said Friday, effectively heralding a pull-out from a booming...
SAN FRANCISCO: A Facebook software problem on Thursday temporarily sidelined websites synched to a feature that lets people's identities at the leading social...
NEW YORK: Apple said Thursday it is weighing ways to give shareholders more of its huge cash stockpile, after hedge fund Greenlight Capital...
SINGAPORE: Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) has reduced its offer for a third time this week for its full-range naphtha cargoes lifting April 2013...
KINSHASA: Aid workers in the conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday they will need nearly $900 million (673 million euros) to meet...
SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge on Thursday tossed out more than a dozen patent infringement claims filed against Microsoft by Google-owned Motorola Mobility....
