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Japan rubber futures drift on higher Southeast Asia supply, weaker oil

Published 28 Jun, 2026 05:03am

TOKYO: Japanese rubber futures fell for a second consecutive session on Friday, as rising natural rubber output...

Iron ore dips, pressured by steel output curbs in Tangshan, high stocks

Published 03 Mar, 2026 05:24am

BEIJING: Iron ore prices slid on Monday, dragged down by production curbs in China’s top steel hub Tangshan, a...

Japan-born pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei arrive home in China’s Sichuan

Published 28 Jan, 2026 12:48pm

They reached the centre in Ya'an, Sichuan, at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, where they will undergo quarantine

Privacy group files complaint against AliExpress, TikTok, WeChat

Published 17 Jul, 2025 11:17am

STOCKHOLM: Austrian advocacy group noyb on Thursday filed data privacy complaints against China’s AliExpress, TikTok...

China hands Tibet official suspended death sentence over $50m in bribes

Published 17 Jul, 2025 03:32am

BEIJING: The former Communist Party head of Tibet was handed a suspended death sentence on Wednesday for taking...

China accuses Trump of ‘pouring oil’ on Iran, Israel conflict

Published 17 Jun, 2025 02:18pm

BEIJING: China on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of “pouring oil” on the mounting conflict between Iran and...

BYD breaks ground on Cambodian car factory, Chinese embassy says

Published 29 Apr, 2025 01:08pm

BEIJING: Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD broke ground on its Cambodia passenger vehicle factory on Monday,...

China’s Q1 automobile exports up 16% y/y, industry official says

Published 22 Apr, 2025 07:42am

BEIJING: China’s automobile exports reached 1.54 million units in the first quarter of the year, up 16% compared...

Tesla suspends taking new orders for Model S and Model X on Chinese website

Published 11 Apr, 2025 10:39am

BEIJING: Tesla has suspended taking new orders for Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, according to...

TikTok, 5 other Chinese firms hit by EU privacy complaints

Published 16 Jan, 2025 12:33pm

STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS: TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed...

US adds Tencent, CATL to list of Chinese firms allegedly aiding Beijing’s military

Published 07 Jan, 2025 11:32am

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: The US Defence Department said on Monday it has added Chinese tech giants including gaming and...

Apple offers iPhone discounts in China as competition intensifies

Published 02 Jan, 2025 01:35pm

BEIJING: Apple is offering rare discounts of up to 500 yuan ($68.50) on its latest iPhone models in China, as the US...

Malaysia grants WeChat, TikTok licences to operate under new law

Published 02 Jan, 2025 11:23am

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s communications regulator said it granted Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s TikTok licences...

What Trump’s 2024 election win means for Asian companies

Published 07 Nov, 2024 11:45am

Donald Trump has been elected US president, capping a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the...

‘Two secrets to China’s rise’

Published 21 Sep, 2024 06:43am

This is apropos a letter to the Editor by this writer carried by the newspaper yesterday. After twelve years, upon...

Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France, French media say

Published 25 Aug, 2024 11:04am

PARIS: Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at...

Elon Musk confirms Twitter has become X.com

Published 17 May, 2024 01:40pm

PARIS: The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said on...

You are what you WhatsApp?

Updated 27 Mar, 2024 05:09am

Letters are formal. Texts and chats are informal. Letters and emails are with a subject. Texts are boundaryless....

US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban

Updated 13 Mar, 2024 07:57pm

WASHINGTON: The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s...

Heavy fog suspends shipping at Chinese ports; Shanghai issues heightened advisory

Published 31 Jan, 2024 11:18am

BEIJING: Heavy fog has suspended the operation of ships travelling through the Qiongzhou Strait off the coast of...

Tencent launches party game ‘DreamStar’, analysts say poses a threat to NetEase

Published 15 Dec, 2023 09:46am

HONG KONG: Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings on Friday launched “DreamStar”, a new party game that has been widely...

Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky on government phones

Published 31 Oct, 2023 01:46pm

OTTAWA: Canada on Monday banned popular Chinese messaging app WeChat and Russian platform Kaspersky from government...

Country Garden delivers 381,000 homes as of Sept 15

Published 20 Sep, 2023 11:17am

BEIJING: Chinese developer Country Garden said on Wednesday it has delivered 381,000 homes in 231 Chinese cities as...

Tencent claims new AI chat bot skills comparable to ChatGPT

Published 07 Sep, 2023 12:52pm

SHANGHAI: Chinese tech giant Tencent on Thursday claimed its new chatbot had some capabilities on par with top US...

Alibaba announces unexpected 14pc increase in quarterly revenue

Published 15 Aug, 2023 06:30am

BEIJING: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced an unexpected 14 percent on-year increase in quarterly sales on...

Beijing rains heaviest since records began 140 years ago

Updated 02 Aug, 2023 11:33am

BEIJING: Deadly rains that pummelled China’s capital in recent days were the heaviest since records began 140 years...

Apple Store goes live on WeChat mini programme

Published 11 Jul, 2023 09:18am

BEIJING: Apple Store’s official online store went live on Tencent’s WeChat mini programme on Tuesday, according to...

Beijing hospital fire death toll rises to 29, director detained

Published 19 Apr, 2023 10:41am

BEIJING: The death toll in a fire that ripped through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing has risen to 29, a city...

From bricks to flips: 50 years of mobile phones

Published 30 Mar, 2023 01:02pm

PARIS: From brick-sized handsets popular with stockbrokers to intensely powerful computers that sit in all our...

PCJCCI chief underscores need for promoting online business

Published 29 Mar, 2023 06:27am

LAHORE: Pakistan can bring a revolution in online business with the help of Chinese companies already working in the...

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 17	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 17	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 17	162.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 17	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 17	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 17	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 17	3.60

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
India Sensex / Jul 17	78,151.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 17	64,141.12
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Hang Seng / Jul 17	24,562.24
FTSE 100 / Jul 17	10,600.37
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 17	24,830.98
France CAC40 / Jul 17	8,338.81

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 17	82.49
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 17	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 17	361,656
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 17	4,017.39
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 17	78.63
Petrol/Litre / Jul 19	316.15
Diesel/Litre / Jul 19	354.35

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Dadabhoy Cement / Jul 17 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	17.01 ▲ 1.55 (10.03%)
Ruby Textile / Jul 17 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	17.59 ▲ 1.6 (10.01%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 17 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	53.68 ▲ 4.88 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 17 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	272.21 ▲ 24.75 (10%)
Suhail Jute / Jul 17 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	223.96 ▲ 20.36 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 17 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	418.56 ▲ 38.05 (10%)
Shadman Cotton / Jul 17 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	50.61 ▲ 4.6 (10%)
Asia Ins. / Jul 17 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	34.45 ▲ 3.13 (9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 17 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	107.58 ▲ 9.65 (9.85%)
TPL Trakker Ltd / Jul 17 TPL Trakker Limited(TPLT)	27.91 ▲ 2.5 (9.84%)

Stock	Price
Tariq Corp. (R) / Jul 17 Tariq Corporation Limited(Right)(TCORPR2)	2.70 ▼ -0.89 (-24.79%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Jul 17 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	11.04 ▼ -1.23 (-10.02%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 17 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,871.47 ▼ -207.94 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 17 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	62.27 ▼ -6.92 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 17 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	97.59 ▼ -10.84 (-10%)
Mughal Iron & Steel(C) / Jul 17 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Ltd (C)(MUGHALC)	63 ▼ -6.99 (-9.99%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 17 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	150.29 ▼ -16.65 (-9.97%)
Paramount Spinning / Jul 17 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	10.91 ▼ -1.1 (-9.16%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jul 17 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	23.62 ▼ -2.36 (-9.08%)
Supernet Tech. / Jul 17 Supernet Technologies Limited(STL)	41.34 ▼ -3.72 (-8.26%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 17 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	86,491,992 ▲ 0.19
TPL Properties / Jul 17 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	62,545,194 ▼ -0.67
Pak Refinery / Jul 17 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	38,580,070 ▲ 2.94
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 17 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,499,606 ▼ -0.04
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 17 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,396,866 ▼ -0.24
Lotte Chemical / Jul 17 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,830,259 ▼ -1.32
Hascol Petrol / Jul 17 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	14,534,208 ▼ -0.33
B.O.Punjab / Jul 17 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	12,503,494 ▼ -0.51
TPL REIT Fund I / Jul 17 TPL REIT Fund I(TPLRF1)	11,458,248 ▼ -0.29
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jul 17 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	10,427,355 ▲ 0.51

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