LOS ANGLES: Cargo delivery and drop-off delays at the twin ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach appear to have...

TOKYO: S&P Global Platts assessed the spot premiums for aluminum imports at $79-$80/mt plus LME cash CIF Japan on Thursday,...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's exports are expected to have fallen in June on stubbornly weak global demand, a Reuters poll showed, underlining...

WELLINGTON: The dairy downturn has cost DairyNZ about $1 million of farmer levy revenue in the past year due to...

JAKARTA: Despite scoring the highest export value of the past year in June, Indonesia saw a 4 percent year-on-year export...

ANKARA: Despite a pick-up in domestic consumption, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Turkey slowed in the first quarter...

SEOUL: South Korea's central bank on Thursday kept its key interest rate unchanged at a record low 1.25 percent as...

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee Friday gained some value against the US dollar in open market. According to the local money...

ALBUQUERQUE: Following an eight-month investigation the U.S. Attorney’s Office arrested ten people Thursday on suspicion of running a heroin trafficking...

BANGKOK: Thailand will adjust its international trade policy by conducting strategic partnerships with priority countries that deepen cooperation in key...

BRUSSELS: Two Belgian pensioners have been arrested after allegedly smuggling £1.2million worth of heroin through the Port of Dover. Thomas...

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCoP), which met under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, has decided to...

NEW DELHI: Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC), India’s largest home finance company, raised Rs 3,000 crore through the country’s first...

ATHENS: Most Greek stocks and the bourse benchmark posted a seventh straight day of gains on Thursday, though trading volume...

ROME: The Iranian government has signed a deal with Italy’s highway agency ANAS for the construction and management of a...

CAPE TOWN: Rob Davies, South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, recently announced the upcoming launch of Trade Africa, which...

BEIJING: China’s economy grew 6.7 per cent in the second quarter, unchanged from the previous three-month period, as a buoyant...

SEOUL: South Korea's crude imports from Iran jumped nearly 115 percent in June from a year earlier as cheaper prices...

RIYADH: Saudi investors signed a contract of Indonesian gaharu wood (agarwood) imports worth of Rp100 billion (US$7.5 million). Local company...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government will spend Rs 315 million on different skill development projects and programmes during financial year 2016-17....