Year: 2015

LISBON: A Spain-owned banking group announced Thursday that it will close another 26 branches and cut 187 jobs in Portugal ...

HANOI: Competent authorities in Vietnam have solved hundreds of thousands of cases of smuggling, producing and trading counterfeit goods in ...

HANOI: A business association in Vietnam is calling for simplified regulations as its new survey has found that 28 percent ...

HARARE: The country’s largest retailer, OK Zimbabwe on Thursday reported a nearly 72 percent fall in net profit to $1,2 ...

SHAMSHABAD: Customs officials on Thursday seized gold biscuits weighing 4.6 kilogramme worth around Rs. 1.2 crore from a woman passenger ...

NORTH CAROLINA: Police say 12 pounds of meth from Mexico was found in a car Wednesday night in Greenville. Members ...

HARARE: Zimbabwe's banana market could face an oversupply after leading producers stopped exports to South Africa, the country's biggest market, ...

COPENHAGEN: Carlsberg, the Danish brewer that has long been struggling in Russia, said it would take US$1.4 billion in charges ...

SINGAPORE: Casino operator Genting Singapore PLC said net profit fell 47 percent in the third quarter, hurt by lower VIP ...

HARROW: A fool and his gold may soon to be parted, but when it comes to fool’s gold the two ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong design and manufacturing firm Valuetronics Holdings reported on Friday an 11.3 per cent fall in net ...

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks fell on Friday morning as investor sentiment was dampened by declines in European and U.S. stocks overnight ...

SINGAPORE: Offshore marine group Nam Cheong reported on Friday that its net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30 ...

HARARE: The average deposit rates for one-month and three-month tenor deposits closed the week ending October 30 at 7,47% and ...

EUROPE: The largest telescope in the world is set to begin its construction as announced on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Named ...

WASHINGTON: Physicists have figured out why we're all so attracted to stars.For the first time ever, physicists from Princeton Plasma ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's economy expanded at the slowest pace in more than two years as private consumption eased, adding pressure ...

BEIJING: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened by 27 basis points to 6.3655 ...

CANADA: The fossil of a new species of duckbilled dinosaur, which paleontologists have dubbed "Superduck," sheds light on how such ...

PARIS: Astronomers have recently discovered what may possibly be the most ancient stars in the Milky Way, which can be ...