BERLIN: German chemicals and pharmaceuticals powerhouse Bayer AG upped its growth forecasts for the year after a strong second quarter...

CAPE TOWN: South Africa's producer price inflation accelerated in June after slowing in the previous three months, figures from Statistics...

BAGHDAD: Iraq is negotiating with Exxon Mobil Corp. and Petrochina Co. to develop two oil fields in the south of...

AMMAN: The private sector can be an important driver for growth and rising prosperity in the Middle East and North...

MUSCAT: Oman’s crude oil exports grew by 6.3 per cent to 164.57 million barrels in the first half of 2016,...

HELSINKI: The unemployment rate was 9.3 per cent in June 2016, having been 10.0 per cent one year before, according...

WARSAW: The Polenergia group is planning to build Poland’s first Baltic Sea offshore wind farm. The groups wants to erect...

KIEV: Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved a draft agreement on avoiding double taxation and preventing tax evasions with Malaysia....

KIEV: Ukraine trimmed borrowing costs for a fourth month after inflation slowed more than predicted and the hryvnia remained stable....

DUBAI: United Arab Emirates fuel prices will drop for the first time in five months in August, due to declining...

ISLAMABAD: Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah Kazmi, a Pakistan Customs Service officer of BS-20, has relinquished the charge of the post...

ADU DHABI: UAE-based Arkan Building Materials has posted revenues of Dh411 million ($111.8 million) and net profit of Dh40 million...

ATHENS: The tax incentives being offered in Greece today for the acquisition of a residential property are virtually zero, according...

ISLAMABAD: Muhammad Amir Thahim, a Pakistan Customs Service officer, has assumed the charge of the post of Second Secretary at...

ANKARA: Turkcell Group revenues rose 8.6 percent year-on-year in Q2 to TRY 3.358 billion. EBITDA grew 3.5 percent to TRY...

ROME: Sales of construction machines have been improving in Italy. Data from the Italian equipment manufacturing association, UNACEA, shows how...

ISLAMABAD: Ghazala Nasir Siddique, an Inland Revenue Service officer, has been promoted to BS-18 on regular basis in her group....

WELLINGTON: New Zealand First leader and Northland MP Winston Peters is backing concerns by wood processors at the hollowing out...

BRASÍLIA: Brazil has expressed interest to extend cooperation to Pakistan in renewable energy, said Claudio Raja Gabaglia Lins, ambassador of...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has issued corrigendum for an Inland Revenue Service officer’s (BS-17) reinstatement notification. In partial modification...