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SINGAPORE: Asian shares rose on Tuesday after China moved to support its stock market by buying shares of major banks, and the euro held the previous session's big gains on hopes that European leaders are finally taking action to protect the continent's lenders.

BEIJING: Chinese cotton importers are refraining from booking shipments before April because of uncertainty over the timing and volume of sliding-tariff quotas for 2012, according to a report on an industry web site on Wednesday.

NEW YORK: World stocks fell to 13-month lows and commodities tumbled on Thursday as weak data from China crystallized investor fears of a global recession one day after a grim economic outlook from the Federal Reserve.

TOKYO: A rebound in Chinese shares helped lift most Asian stocks into positive territory on Wednesday, but gains were limited by concerns that the threat posed to the global economic outlook by Europe's debt crisis is weighing on corporate earnings.

ISLAMABAD: Chinese company M/S Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) is all set to invest in various sectors of energy generation in the country.