Dutch transport firms face €60m bill for Belgian road pricing

BRASILIA: Brazilian oil company Petrobras, the country's largest company, will seek to eliminate 12,000 employees through voluntary resignations, in a...

Furqan made I&I Assist Director, Ashraf posted as PCA Assist Director

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has transferred/posted two Pakistan Customs Service officers of BS-17 with immediate effect. Furqan Mahmood was...

Govt improving livestock sector in Balochistan: Bosan

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is working to improve livestock sector in Balochistan, said Federal Minister for National Food Security and...

Dy Commissioner-IR Asfandyar exonerated

ISLAMABAD: Muhammad Asfandyar Janjua, a BS-18 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has been exonerated from the charges levelled against him....

Customs Superintendent Younas to retire on July 1

ISLAMABAD: Younas Haider Changezi, a BS-16 officer of Customs Department, is going to retire from the government service on attaining...

Gujranwala FIA tracing illegal currency exchangers

SIALKOT: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Gujranwala Deputy Director has formed team to check the record of all currency exchanges in...

Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade falls slightly to $349bn in 2015

DUBAI: Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade fell marginally to AED1.283 trillion ($349.3 billion) in 2015 from AED1.331 trillion in the previous...

Italy’s unemployment rate rises in Feb

ROME: Italy’s unemployment rate rose in February as a discount on social contributions for businesses hiring more workers was being...

Trina Solar plans to increase shipments in 2016

WASHINGTON: Trina Solar, one of China's largest solar panel makers, said it will increase its total solar module shipments to...

Chicago’s unemployment rate rises to 7.2%

WASHINGTON: The city of Chicago's unemployment rate climbed to 7.2 percent last month from 6.9 percent the year before, according...

Uganda’s inflation slides to 6.2% in March

KAMPALA: Uganda's year-on-year headline inflation fell to 6.2 percent in March from a revised 7 percent a month earlier, helped...

South Korea‘s export decline slows in March

SEOUL: South Korea’s exports continued to contract from a year earlier in March, but the rate of decline slowed from...

Belarus raises oil export duties

MINSK: Belarus raised export duties on oil and oil products, which are exported outside the customs territory of the Eurasian...

New support mechanism for renewable in Poland

WARSAW: The renewable energy law (“RES Act”) came into force in Poland in May 2015 and, the auctions, which were...

Portugal’s economic climate indicator rises in Feb