coal producers, logistics and downstream users, while coal prices have also stabilised, the state

The council also includes Tariq Pasha, a former chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue and a staff officer for former finance minister Ishaq Dar.... Former finance minister Saleem Mandviwalla and former petroleum minister Dr Asim Hussain represent the PPP. Mian Muhammad Mansha is on top among business leaders in the EAC, followed by Muhammad Ali Tabba and Arif Habib.... Bankers, entrepreneurs and executives like Atif Bajwa of MCB/ Alfalah, M. Aurangzeb of HBL, Faisal Farid of Pepsico and Waq

BEIJING: China’s economy performed better than expected in October as retail sales and industrial output beat estimates, relieving concern a property slump was broadening. Industrial output rose 3.5% in October from a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics( NBS), faster than September’s reading and higher than economists’ expectations. Retail sales growth accelerated to 4.9%, above the 3.7% estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Growth in fixed-asset investment eased

KUALA LUMPUR: A new framework to address concerns over the sharp increase in construction costs contributed by the Russian-Ukraine conflict will be drawn up by the National Affordable Housing Council. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the government was determined to find a solution to the issue that was affecting home prices.“ The council will help resolve problems that have emerged as well as make the buying and owning of houses easier in the future, ” he said in his speech at

SHANGHAI: China’s home prices increased in August but at a slower pace as regulatory measures

The turning point is behind us, Russia is living in new conditions of confrontation and is coping with them. Russian politics has moved from crisis mode to the new normal, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev.

BEIJING: As “ housing is for living in, not for speculation ” remains the overriding mantra for the property sector, prices of both new and pre-owned homes in China’s major cities gained at a slower pace in October from a year earlier, and experts expect adjustments will lead to a better supply-demand balance in the housing sector. The majority of the nation’s 70 large and medium-sized cities saw home prices edge down month-on-month in October, with new and pre-owned home prices growing at a slo

measures to stabilise market confidence. The cabinet meeting, chaired by Premier Li Qiang, said on Monday

PETALING JAYA: Maybank Investment Bank Bhd, the stabilising manager for Farm Fresh Bhd’s initial

slope stabilisation and upgrading works at Sungai Kemensah estimated to cost RM10mil, says Environment