Gabon authorities seize 200kg of ivory
GABON: Home to half of Africa’s endangered forest elephants - has impounded more than 200kg of ivory in what may ...
Year: 2015
Zimbabwe’s finance minister forecast 2.7% growth for 2016
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s finance minister forecast a 2.7 per cent growth for next year, but analysts fear this is too ambitious, ...
Zimbabwe JA Solar wins $179m contract to supply
HARARE: Nasdaq Stock Exchange-listed JA Solar has won a $179 million contract to supply photo voltaic panels for Munyati solar ...
US Border Patrol agents seize 150 pounds of marijuana worth $89,000
CALIFORNIA: Border Patrol agents seized almost 150 pounds of marijuana Wednesday after discovering the drugs hidden in a truck trying ...
Garments manufacturers call for textile package
KARACHI: The representative of garments manufacturers has called for early announcement of textile package as the delay is further deteriorating ...
Australian dollar bounces back above US73 on jobs data
PERTH: The Australian dollar has spiked back above US73 cents on a stunningly strong jobs report. At noon (AEDT), the ...
Singapore’s CNB nails down drug racket
SINGAPORE: Drugs worth more than S$103,000 were seized yesterday in a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) operation. A suspected drug syndicate ...
Food prices inflation rise by 4% in 2016
OTTAWA: Food prices are set to outpace overall inflation and rise by as much as 4 per cent in 2016 ...
India will set up observatories to monitor climate change impact
MUMBAI: India announced Monday that it will open eight long-term observatories across the islands, deserts, and the Himalayas to monitor ...
Govt urged to pay attention to citrus industry
SARGODHA: Pests and diseases are main causes of low production of citrus, which need government attention to boost this profitable ...
UK court sentences man 20 month jail for smuggling heroin
LONDON: A 37 year old man who was caught with heroin worth around £7,000 at Lerwick’s NorthLink ferry terminal has ...
Indian rupee up 4 paisa against US dollar in early trade
MUMBAI: The Indian rupee rose marginally by 4 paise to 66.79 against the US dollar in early trade today at ...
Google’s quantum computer 100m times faster than a regular computer chip
WASHINGTON: Tapping into the ostensibly "magical fount" of quantum mechanics could possibly result to an outpouring of new and ground-breaking ...
Egypt authorities arrest man with archaeological currencies
CAIRO: Cairo Airport thwarted the smuggling attempt of 177 Egyptian, Libyan, Saudi and Iraqi archaeological currencies by an Egyptian passenger ...
Indonesia to import up to 1 million metric tons of Pak rice
JAKARTA: Pakistan and Indonesia have signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) on rice import. The MoU was signed by Indonesian Trade ...
Turkey imports 33.06 bcm of gas from various sources in 2015
ANKARA: Turkish state pipeline company BOTAS imported 33.06 billion cubic meters of gas from various sources in Jan.-Oct. 2015, compared ...
Japan to expand import quota for South Korean nori
TOKYO: Japan will more than double its quota for imports of South Korean nori to 2.7 billion sheets, the Fisheries ...
Vietnam cotton imports increase in 2015-16
HANOI: The heady growth in Vietnam's textiles industry, expected to export $28bn this year, is to take its cotton imports ...
Australia citrus export rises by 29% to 187,994 tonnes in first 10 months
CANBERRA: Australia’s citrus export industry continues to enjoy a remarkable turnaround in fortunes, with shipments for 2015 expanding by almost ...
