Year: 2015

DOHA: Qatar Navigation’s (Milaha) general assembly has approved the recommendation to amend the concerned article to increase the company’s foreign ...

Qatar’s QNCC to raise production by 12 percent

DOHA: Qatar’s main cement maker, which claims catering to over 70 percent of the local demand, is gearing up to ...

Kuwait’s GCM signs deal to acquire SPX stake

KUWAIT CITY: Global Capital Management LTD (Global), the alternative asset management arm of Global Investment House, announced that GMFA Fund ...

Kuwait security operatives seize illicit liquor factory, nab two Asians

KUWAIT CITY: Two Asians were arrested for running a liquor factory as Ahmadi security operatives raided the basement of a ...

FBR starts manhunt for 24,000 missing taxpayers

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ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has started a quest for 24,000 taxpayers registered in the general sales tax (GST) ...

Lebanon FM announces fight against corrupt customs officers

BEIURT: Finance Minister of Lebanon, Ali Hasan Khalil, announced to continue efforts to fight against the corrupt customs officers at ...

Kuwait authorities seize illicit heroin, 50g of shabu, 650 narcotic pills

KUWAIT CITY: A Bangladeshi man working as a cook in the house of a Kuwaiti citizen was arrested in possession ...

Singapore stocks open lower, Straits Times down 3.49pts

SINGAPORE: Singapore stocks opened lower on Friday with the Straits Times Index down 3.49 points to 3,382.67 at 9.01am, following ...

Vaio introduced its first smartphone through Japanese MVNO B-mobile with 5-inch display

New Delhi: Sony's Vaio Corporation has introduced its first smartphone through Japanese MVNO B-mobile. The Android smartphone will compete with ...

More protection needs to reduce impact of climate change on Great Barrier Reef

SYDNEY: More protection is needed to reduce the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, a major international ...

102.95 in open market, 101.70 in interbank: Pak rupee continues losing spree

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee further weakened Friday against dollar both in open market and interbank despite reports that reserves are ...

German property financier Berlin Hyp raises new business with €5b investment

BERLIN: German property financier Berlin Hyp raised new business last year to €5bn including €1bn extensions, from €3.2bn in 2013, ...

Shell opens its first LNG fuelling station in Rotterdam

AMSTERDAM: Shell has opened its first LNG fuelling station in Rotterdam Waalhaven, the Netherlands, for trucks operating in Europe. The ...

Since 1999 It is first major solar eclipse but cloud cover predicted for much of country

LONDON: Cloud cover predicted for much of the country could mean viewers can't see the sun at all and not ...

Australian dollar weakens ahead of Fed speech

PERTH: The Australian dollar has weakened ahead of a speech by Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens. The local currency fell ...

Microsoft to start data centre in Pune later on 2015: Microsoft hopes to reach out to 10,000 SMBs across 250 cities

PUNE: Microsoft has announced that it would be opening a data centre in Pune by the end of 2015, one ...

R100m illicit foreign currency seized by SA Customs: Nhlanhla Nena

CAPE TOWN: FINANCE Minister Nhlanhla Nene has confirmed that the South African Revenue Service (SARS) confiscated foreign currency worth an ...

Threat of cloud cover at solar eclipse may make it difficult to be able to see sun at all

LONDON: Cloud cover predicted for much of the country could mean viewers can't see the sun at all and not ...

Zamano rings up annual pre-tax profit of €2.177m, up 13.5% YOY