Gold holds up as critical to Western Australian economy The importance of gold to Western Australia’s economy has been highlighted by Mines and Petroleum Minister Sean L’Estrange on a visit to the State’s most significant recent greenfields gold discovery, Gold Road Resources’ Gruyere project north-east of Laverton. “The gold sector provides more than 20,000 jobs […]
More housing supply is on its way with another near record result for the number of buildings approved in the year to March, today’s ABS figures show. Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian welcomed the result which showed NSW residential building approvals rising 6.9 per cent in the month of March – well above the national average of […]
Queensland trend business confidence rating has remained the highest of any mainland State for the 10th month in a row, according to today’s respected National Australia Bank Monthly Business Survey. // Treasurer Curtis Pitt said: “Since last year’s State Budget, trend business confidence in Queensland has been the highest of any mainland State. “We’re consistently […]
President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said friendship between India and New Zealand will continue to strengthen. “Friendship between two countries will continue to strengthen in the years to come to mutual benefit of our peoples,” President Mukherjee said in a tweet on his visit to New Zealand. Mukherjee visited the War Memorial Museum at New […]
Toiling Royal Challengers Bangalore will be eagerly aiming for a win when they face Kolkata Knight Riders in a Indian Premier League (IPL) here on Monday. RCB have only won two of their four matches to be at the seventh spot in the eight-team tournament’s points table. They have an disbalanced squad, heavily reliant on […]
A tourist park is being developed near Imphal’s Marjing temple, considered the birthplace of polo, with Rs.12 crore set aside by the tourism department. Disclosing this to IANS Nongthombam Biren, the ruling Congress MLA of the Heingang constituency, said that the temple was the birthplace of polo which is now world famous. Biren said that […]
A police officer was killed and 13 people were injured on Sunday in an explosion near the main police station in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The blast hit the southern city, 10 km from the Syrian border, at about 9.30 a.m. Nine policemen and four civilians were injured in the suspected car bomb attack, […]
Borussia Dortmund captain Mats Hummels played down the reaction of home fans at the Westfalenstadion after the football club announced that the defender wanted to join traditional rivals Bayern Munich. Dortmund may have won 5-1 on Saturday at home to Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, but it was not an easy afternoon for Hummels. The 27-year-old […]
South Korea’s exports slid 11.2 percent in April compared to the same period last year, the government announced on Sunday. Goods sales overseas were worth $41 billion, according to data supplied by the country’s ministry of trade, industry and energy. South Korean imports, meanwhile, fell 14.9 percent year-on-year to stand at $32.2 billion, bringing the […]
US President Barack Obama ended his final White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night with what was the ‘coolest’ exit by a president in history when he said, “Obama out”, dropped the mic and walked away from the podium. Hundreds of well-known journalists, politicians, and celebrities attended the dinner, which was held at the Washington […]