COPENHAGEN: The President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi on Thursday announced to continue with the low-interest-rate policy...

BRUSSELS: The executive body of the European Union (EU) Thursday presented a guidance aimed at supporting consumers, businesses and public...

BEIJING: China's foreign service trade amounted to $257.02 billion during the first four months of the year, up 16.8 percent...

BEIJING: China and the United States will facilitate dialogue and enhance communication on key bilateral economic issues, a senior official...

RIYADH: Uber Technologies Inc said it received its biggest investment to date, raising US$3.5 billion from the Public Investment Fund...

NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs Group Inc cut investment banking jobs in the past few weeks, joining securities firms that are...

HONG KONG: Bank of East Asia Ltd (BEA), the largest family-run bank listed in Hong Kong, has embarked on a...

SINGAPORE: Singapore state funds bought US$1 billion of shares in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd as part of...

TAIPEI: Minister of Finance (MOF) Sheu Yu-jer yesterday told lawmakers that reassessing taxes on dividends is not among the government’s...

VIENNA: Venezuela is going to increase its oil production by 7.14 percent up to 3 million barrels per day, Venezuela’s...

NAHA: About 600 kilograms of illegal drugs with a street value of some 42 billion yen ($387 million) have been...

GEORGE TOWN: Police detained a husband and wife couple and seized 182 kilogrammes of cannabis worth about RM540,000 in two...

DUBLIN: Heroin with an estimated street value of €1.4 million has been seized by the Garda as part of its...

NEW YORK: The world’s food-import bill is set to tumble to a seven-year low in 2016 as a decline in...

MOSCOW : The export portfolio of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has reached $48 billion, head of Russia’s state technologies...

TOKYO/SINGAPORE: Asian shares advanced on Friday as investors looked to U.S. employment data that could add to or detract from...

FRANKFURT: European stocks ended mixed to slightly lower by Thursday's close, as investors digested the latest news out of OPEC...

TORONTO: Canada's main stock index rose on Thursday, led by energy and financial stocks as oil settled higher after a...

NEW YORK: A rally in health-care shares helped U.S. stocks edge higher on Thursday. Some investors were wary of making...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N MNA Maiza Hameed said the government would bring more sectors into the tax net in the...