Kenya’s energy ministry considers tax incentives on fuel-saving cars
NAIROBI: Apart from going from 0 to 99 Kph in five seconds flat, the VW Sport Coupe GTE Concept car ...
Year: 2015
Oman, Brazil trade reaches $1.1b in 2014
MUSCAT: Trade between Brazil and Oman has been steadily increasing in the last few years, though has reached $1.1 billion ...
Pacific County ports dredging up sediment solutions
ILWACO: Port managers in Ilwaco and Chinook say they are lucky to have landed a commitment from the US Army ...
British retail spending rises 4.7%, biggest year-on-year since April 2014
LONDON: British retail spending rose at its fastest annual rate in almost a year last month, boosted by Easter falling ...
Cash-strapped Greece govt faces another €200m payment on May 1
ATHENS: The concerns come as voices in Athens have repeated threats to stop paying back their international creditors if no ...
Nokia to offer advanced 2G, 3G, 4G mobile broadband technologies, next-generation mobile broadband infrastructure for data traffic in Pakistan
Islamabad: Minister for IT and Telecomm Ms. Anusha Rahman Khan has said that the government was committed to enabling the ...
800-1200 MW less hydel generation last week: DISCOs, NPCC directed to overcome power shortfall
ISLAMABAD: In bid to reduce loadshedding, the Ministry of Water and Power has directed the Power Distribution Companies (DISCOs) and ...
Google abuses its dominant position: More than two dozen companies, organizations have filed antitrust complaints in Europe against Google
LONDON: The European Commission is said to be planning to charge Google with using its dominant position in online searches ...
Turkey PM to launch first homegrown $115 million seismic ship
ANKARA: The first Turkish-made seismic-survey vessel, Turkuaz, is to be launched this weekend in Istanbul. Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz ...
Greece’s 200,000 SMEs in danger of strangulation
ATHENS: Prominent members of the Greece business world said that around 200,000 small-to-medium businesses are in danger of financial asphyxiation. ...
New book creates doubt of legality on Dong’s sale of 18% shares to Goldman
COPENHAGEN: Denmark sold 185 of its shares to Goldman an American bank still facing some doubts on its legality. A ...
Japan stocks sink on yen at start, Nikkei sheds 0.3%
TOKYO: Japanese stocks dipped out of the Wednesday market open, feeling the weight of solid gains for the yen, but ...
Finnish wages, salaries grow 1.3% year-on-year
HELSINKI: The Finnish statics showed that the wages and salaries of the whole economy remained 1.2% higher than in the ...
Finlad’s Ericsson to cut 95 jobs from research & development department
HELSINKI: Telecommunications giant Ericsson plans to withdraw 95 jobs from its research and development department and starts co-determination negotiations next ...
Unemployment remains biggest threat to welfare of Finland in 2014
HELSINKI: Finnish social barometer survey publish its results of 2014 shows that the unemployment is biggest threat to the welfare ...
Turkey to purchase 15 KT-1T basic trainer aircraft from South Korea
ANKARA: A top Turkish official confirmed that the country will go ahead with a planned purchase of 15 KT-1T basic ...
Finland’s industrial output falls 5.1% in February 2015
HELSINKI: Finland statics shows that the output of total industries adjusted for working days was 5.1 per cent lower year-on-year ...
Stockmann departure from Oulu may affect 230 employees
HELSINKI: Stockmann will launch negotiations with a total of 1,100 employees in Finland over the redundancies of a maximum of ...
Danish Bestseller’s women employees over 90% in 2014
COPENHAGEN: Bestseller is one of the biggest Danish success stories in China to date, with 6,500 stores spread across 400 ...
Danish tourism growth stagnant at 4% between 2002-2014
COPENHAGEN: A study of European tourism carried out by the magazine Momentum showed that Denmark’s tourism growth over that period ...
