WELLINGTON: Baby carriers and boxes of neckties were found to be concealing about 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine when they arrived...

LONDON: Chennai Port Trust on Friday commenced supplying bunker fuel to ships at anchorage, an official said. Till recently, international...

WASHINGTON: American steel mills shipped 7 million net tons of steel in January, a 7.2 percent increase over December. However,...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ports and shipping minister Arjuna Ranatunga has ordered a probe into revenue losses caused by non use...

LISBON: Portuguese exports rose by 0.7% against a 0.3% increase in imports in the three-month period through to January of...

KUWAIT: Customs officers at the Saad Al-Abdullah Airport arrested an Arab man with possession of six plastic bags of diamonds...

DOHA: Qatar’s Insurance premium reached $2bn in 2015, registering 11 percent compound annual growth rate since 2007. Qatar’s insurance sector,...

KATHMANDU: Birat Petroleum has slashed the price of its petrol to Rs99 per litre from Rs130, in line with the...

JAKARTA: A French company specializing in sports apparel is planning to invest US$500 million in Indonesia, underlining growing interest from...

DHAKA: State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation plans to import 2,200 mt of 0.03% sulfur gasoil from India's Numaligarh refinery owned by...

TAIPEI: Intel Corp, one of the world’s largest makers of computer components, is planning to sell part of its venture...

WARSAW: The Polish central bank’s Monetary Policy Council (RPP) said on Friday it has left the country’s benchmark interest rates...

HANOI: Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Văn Ninh has agreed with the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s plan to issue more...

AMMAN: Jordan seeks to attract more religious tourists and students from Indonesia, while Jakarta wants to benefit from Jordan’s strategic...

ABU DHABI: The cargo division of Etihad Airways generates over $1 billion in annual revenues and is one of the...

KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia has published its financial results for the year ended 31 December 2015, saying it had seen...

HELSINKI: Private sector labour costs rose by 0.8 per cent in October to December 2015 when compared with the respective...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs detected two suspected smuggling cases at Lok Ma Chau and Shenzhen Bay Control Point yesterday...

LONDON: European shares rose on Monday as funding plans from the European Central Bank for the region's lenders buoyed markets,...

MUSCAT: Oman on Sunday floated two tenders seeking proposals from international consultants to provide financial, commercial and legal advisory services...