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LONDON: Frontier IP, a specialist in commercialising university intellectual property, today announced that portfolio company Fieldwork Robotics has completed initial field trials of its robot raspberry harvesting system. Frontier IP…
FRANKFURT: Deutsche Familienversicherung plans to offer product concepts including life insurance components in the future. This requires a life insurer as risk carrier. Deutsche Familienversicherung and VPV Versicherungen (VPV) have…
KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Karachi is pursuing a rigorous campaign against non-duty paid vehicles and seized two Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles.Director Irfan Javed has advised the staff…
KARACHI: Engro Fertilizers Limited, Engro Foundation and the Department of Foreign Aid and Trade (DFAT), Government of Australia have successfully trained more than 4,000 smallholder farmers so far, including 600…
Engro Fertilizers Limited and Engro Foundation received an international award for their Partnerships and Value Expansion in Seeds Value Chain (PAVE) project at the Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards (AREA) 2019…
NEW YORK — Knowledge Bylanes — Guidepoint, a leading New York-based expert network, expanded its international footprint to a brand-new market in the Middle East by establishing a presence in…
GUIYANG, CHINA –Knowledge Bylanes– The China International Big Data Industry Expo 2019 kicked off on May 26 in Guiyang, the capital city of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, a bellwether occasion…
DUBAI, UAE: Arabtec Holding, a leading contractor for social and economic infrastructure, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Target Engineering Construction Company (Target) has been awarded an AED 192 million…
MAKATI, PHILIPPINES: During the regular Board meeting of Security Bank Corporation on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, Sanjiv Vohra was named as President and Chief Executive Officer effective July 1, 2019,…
KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Karachi has recovered 1,080 bottles of foreign whisky from consignment declared to contain food stuff imported by embassy of the Republic of Indonesia.…
LAHORE: Five export-oriented manufacturer bodies have urged the government to continue sales tax zero-rating regime in the budget 2019/20, fearing the Pakistan export might drop further to $21 billion from…
KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Shabbar Zaidi on Monday banned entry of visitors at the Customs House.FBR chairman took notice of presence of a large number of visitors…
KARACHI: National Fertilizer Development Center (NFDC) released fertilizer data for the month of Apr’19 wherein total fertilizer off-takes clocked-in at 512k tons, depicting a decline of 10%YoY. Industry urea sales…
KARACHI: Metro Cash & Carry Pakistan has entered into a long term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Shams Power to install and operate solar power plant at their stores all…
MOSCOW: PhosAgro, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, announces that its Board of Directors has elected Independent Director Xavier Rolet as its Chairman. The Board of…
KARACHI: Earnings of the KSE-100 index depicted a downturn of 1.2% YoY during 3QFY19 ended March 31, 2019.Based on sectoral weight, this was led primarily by Cements (-7.8% YoY; 5.7%…
TOKYO: Tokai Cable Network Corporation (TCN), the cable television business operator in TOKAI Group, has entered into an agreement to acquire the cable television business operated by Shioya Limited.Since the…
SINGAPORE: CapitaLand Limited announced several key executive appointments to drive its next phase of growth. With the fulfillment of all conditions precedent, the Group is on track to complete its…
HONG KONG: China Everbright Water Limited, an environmental protection company focusing on water environment management, has entered into a supplementary agreement to a concession agreement relating to Nanjing Pukou Industrial…
BAHRAIN: Investcorp, a leading global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mercury Capital Advisors (Mercury), one of the world’s leading institutional…