JEDDAH: The month of May witnessed a continuation in the expansion of credit in Saudi Arabia despite dwindling deposits; the...

BANGKOK: The Thai referendum that has just won public backing for a new constitution was, to put it mildly, very...

SEATTLE: Port of Seattle Commissioners will vote Tuesday to allocate another $5 million to the Lander Street Overpass project, an...

WASHINGTON: The Mombasa Port expansion programme has enabled the facility to accommodate bigger vessels, the management has said. Since 2012,...

WASHINGTON: A Malaysian tycoon is seeking to raise at least $700 million through an initial public offering of port assets,...

AMSTERDAM: Altice NV said its core earnings rose in the second quarter, as growth in the U.S. and Portugal offset...

MANILA: South Korea's customs authorities said Tuesday they have arrested or indicted seven men for smuggling in cigarettes worth 6.4...

MADRID: The first lemon harvest estimate by AILIMPO for the upcoming 2016/2017 campaign points to a production in Spain totalling...

OAKLAND: The Port of Oakland is busier than it has been in a decade. July marked the busiest month in...

OSLO: Norwegian energy company DNO said it received from the government a partial payment for the oil it exported in...

LONDON: Lithuania imported 8,160 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of gas in the first quarter of this year, down by 5.1 % form...

KUWAIT CITY:  An Arab expatriate was arrested at Kuwait International Airport in possession of 15,000 ‘Tremadol’ pills. According to sources,...

DOHA: Oil prices jumped more than 3 percent on Monday amid renewed speculation that OPEC would try to restrain output,...

KABUL: Chinese cement companies are scouring Central Asia for new opportunities as profits dry up at home, writes Dirk van...

SINGAPORE: Public transport operator SMRT on Monday (Aug 8) reported a 22.9 per cent fall in profit for the first...

PARIS: France's SFR reported a steep decline of its second-quarter core operating profit, hit by heavy promotions and customer losses...

BASEL: Swiss cable operator UPC reported second-quarter revenue up 1.1 percent year-on-year to CHF 340 million. Growth was led by...

ISLAMABAD: Sohail Afzal, a BS-20 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of Chief (IR-Policy...

BRASÍLIA: Brazil drastically reduced its imports of coke to 2,524 mt in July from 163,578 mt in the year ago-month,...

ISLAMABAD: Mussarat Ullah Khan, a BS-19 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has relinquished the charge of the post of Secretary....