COLOMBO: Excise tax revenues from vehicles fell 10.6 percent to 59.433 billion rupees in the first four months of 2016...

GENEVA: The economic ministers from three of Switzerland’s most prosperous cantons – Basel City, Geneva and Zurich – are calling...

PARIS: France will have to react to Britain's plan to cut corporation tax to below 15 percent and enact reforms...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s financial secretary John Tsang Chun-wah warned recently that the city’s economy is facing its “worst time...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s answer to Singapore consolidating its ports to enhance efficiency and reduce cost will come from an ongoing...

SINGAPORE: Factory activity shrank for the 12th straight month in June as the lacklustre global economy continued to weigh on...

WASHINGTON: A new government proposal could have international visitors to the U.S. sharing their Facebook and Twitter info. International visitors...

CARACAS: Venezuela’s oil revenues plummeted 40.7 percent last year due to sinking global oil prices, the nation’s state-owned Petroleos de...

LONDON: British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne plans to slash corporation tax to less than 15 percent to tempt...

OTTAWA: Realtors in Toronto and Vancouver are pitching Canadian cities as relatively safe property havens now that London, for years...

TAIPEI: The nation’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) came in at 53.3 last month, settling above the neutral mark...

URUMQI: Textile and garment exports to Central Asia and Russia via ports in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have increased by...

ROME: Italian police have arrested 23 people accused of being part of a criminal network smuggling people across the Mediterranean,...

DUBLIN: More than 3,000 retailers are calling on the Government not to increase tax on tobacco products amid concerns that...

WOLVERHAMPTON: Nearly half a million illegal cigarettes have been seized in Wolverhampton in just two years, it has been revealed....

MANILA: Law enforcers seized close to P1 billion worth of shabu, while at least 18 suspected drug dealers and users...

MOSCOW: The Moscow Region Commercial Court has halted proceedings in the lawsuit of Apple’s subsidiary in Russia, “Apple Rus” against...

ATHENS: EBC Solicitors SA announced that its Cyprus-based unit, EBC Seed Fund Limited, has signed an agreement to sell 34.41...

TOKYO: Asia markets were broadly lower on Tuesday at the open, likely taking cues from European equities, which slid Monday...

ATHENS: The market turmoil continued in Athens on Monday, due to fiscal concerns and the business unrest resulting from the...