OTTAWA: Canada's labour market received a surge in full-time, private-sector work last month that helped drive the unemployment rate down...

AMMAN: A Jordanian industrial delegation will take part at Kenya Trade Fair, which will be held in Nairoubi on April...

DHAKA: The Border Security Force (BSF) said on Thursday that it seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN) of face value...

GENEVA: World trade volume in goods will grow a sluggish 2.8 percent in 2016, down from the 3.9 percent rise...

KATHMANDU: Department of Electricity Development (DoED) has decided to award development licences of two mid-sized run-of-the-river hydropower projects to Remit...

WARSAW: New data released this week implies that Poland’s apple exporters are still suffering as a result of losing their...

HELSINKI: Power production at Finland's Olkiluoto 1 nuclear power plant will be stopped for about a week starting from Monday...

LISBON: Portugal’s banking system returned to profitability in 2015 after four years in the red, the regulatory and supervisory authority...

DUBAI: Man-made developments and tourist projects have seen Dubai’s coastline grown by 6 percent over the past six years, a...

DUBAI: Dubai Investments has announced the acquisition of a 20 percent additional stake in Properties Investments (PI), a joint venture...

KIEV: The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has obliged banks to bring their charter capitals to at least UAH 200...

HANOI:  The Việt Nam Competition Authority (VCA) will host a public consultation meeting on May 5 to collect opinions from...

ROME: An Italian plan to set up a state-backed fund that would help troubled lenders by buying up bad loans...

BRASÍLIA: Banks in Brazil will step up corporate loan refinancing deals this year, the central bank said on Thursday, suggesting...

BRUSSELS: According to most recent statistics, the total scrap exports by the EU-28 countries fell significantly during the first month...

TOKYO: According to latest statistics released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance (MoF), the country’s imports of steel scrap dropped considerably...

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee Friday slightly slipped against the US dollar in open market and remained firm in interbank. According...

ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation measured through the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) has decreased 0.01 percent for the week ended April...

ISLAMABAD: The Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) has announced downward revision in the profit rates for various saving certificates...

SYDNEY, April 8 Australia lifted its 2016 price forecast for the country's biggest export earner iron ore by 11 percent...