Year: 2015

HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks rallied Thursday morning, with energy firms boosted on hopes for further reforms of China's state-owned ...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will defend its decision of levying 0.2 percent withholding tax on bank transactions ...

HANOI: Fighting against counterfeit goods has been a big challenge for Viet Nam, especially since violations of intellectual property rights ...

ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan (GoP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a Letter of Exchange for the establishment of ...

BEIJING: China’s apple imports are expected to jump nearly 50% over last year to 100,000 metric tons, while pear and ...

GENEVA: First, withdrawals from the vaults of the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE), our best measure for Chinese wholesale gold demand, ...

HANOI: Numerous Vietnamese firms and member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) gathered at a business forum yesterday in ...

BEIJING: Beijing will allow independent refineries to export refined fuel next year for the first time, sources said, freeing up ...

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee further depreciated against the US dollar in open market, however, it remained firm in interbank. As ...

BEIJING: Power company China Three Gorges Corp yesterday agreed to pay 13.8 billion reais (US$3.7 billion) for the rights to ...

BEIJING: Chinese conglomerate HNA Group is expanding its global footprint by acquiring a 23.7 percent stake in Azul Brazilian Airlines, ...

BEIJING: The General Administration of Customs (GAC) has rolled out 18 measures to buoy China's sinking foreign trade, its spokesperson ...

TOKYO: The Finance Ministry plans to seek a law revision to give customs officers the authority to seize and dispose ...

NEW DELHI:  A Red Sanders smuggler was was arrested from Pitampura in north Delhi today and sandal wood weighing more ...

PRETORIA: South African Revenue Services (SARS) officials seized R4,2 million worth of illegal cigarettes in two separate raids on the ...

HANOI: Vietnam’s government has green-lighted an ambitious proposal to grow Panax vietnamensis, or Vietnamese panax, in a huge area of ...

JACKSONVILLE: Multiple air and marine units seized nearly 700 pounds of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea, including a P-3 aircraft ...

NAIROBI: Some 2,772kg of rice was yesterday impounded from Sirat Vision Ltd in Industrial Area Nairobi by the Anti-Counterfeit Agency. ...

DHAKA: The law enforcing agencies have carried out 322,000 raids in the first six months this year to check smuggling, ...

BEIJING: China Pharma Holdings, Inc. an NYSE MKT listed corporation with its fully-integrated specialty pharmaceuticals subsidiary based in China, today ...