Hong Kong - Eleven years after it ceased to be a British colony, English remains the most important language to master in Hong Kong's business and professional world, according to a survey released Friday.
Written English was rated the most important language skill in a survey of more than 2,0000 ethnic Chinese professionals, followed by the local dialect Cantonese and then spoken English.
San Francisco/Los Angeles - The US economy may be deep in the doldrums, but there's one sector where enterprising entrepreneurs are still making a fortune.
Since last week's victory by Barack Obama, souvenirs of the president-elect are selling like the crash never happened, as his supporters and foreign tourists rush to get their hands on almost anything that commemorates the election of the first African-American president.
Islamabad, Nov 14 : The Pakistan Government is learnt to have decided to declare Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary on December 27 as a public holiday.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which leads the alliance government in Islamabad, decided this at a meeting of its Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting here last evening.
The CEC met at Prime Minister’s House with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the chair and finalised preparations for first death anniversary of the former premier, reported the Daily Times.
Washington - As leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather for Saturday's historic meeting, one of the most likely outcomes is a strengthened role for the International Monetary Fund to help countries find their way out of the financial crisis.
The IMF has already agreed to provide emergency loans to countries in dire need of cash, including Iceland, Ukraine, Hungary and Pakistan, as the financial crisis spread from the United States to the rest of the world.
Washington - The US space agency said Thursday its Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image, taken in visible light, of a planet circling a star in another solar system.
The planet, Fomalhaut b, is estimated to have about three times the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The image was taken as Fomalhaut b orbited the star Fomalhaut, which is located 25 light years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Australis or the Southern Fish.
Hong Kong - Eleven years after it ceased to be a British colony, English remains the most important language to master in Hong Kong's business and professional world, according to a survey released Friday.
San Francisco/Los Angeles - The US economy may be deep in the doldrums, but there's one sector where enterprising entrepreneurs are still making a fortune.
Islamabad, Nov 14 : The Pakistan Government is learnt to have decided to declare Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary on December 27 as a public holiday.
Washington - As leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather for Saturday's historic meeting, one of the most likely outcomes is a strengthened role for the International Monetary Fund to help countries find their way out of the financial crisis.
Tokyo - Stocks bounced back Friday in Tokyo on the back of Wall Street's overnight rises and the yen weakening against the dollar.
Washington - The US space agency said Thursday its Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image, taken in visible light, of a planet circling a star in another solar system.
