Year: 2015

AMSTERDAM: At the risk of hitting the man when he is down and being sin-binned by the ref for doing ...

OSLO: Statoil will invest about 2 billion Norwegian crowns ($236 million) in building a floating wind farm off the Scottish ...

ANKARA: Ankara Three local business owners are teaming up for the Fourth Annual Turkey Drive to collect frozen turkeys to ...

LONDON: WhatsApp has released a new beta version of its chat software for Android, which finally brings with it support ...

CANBERRA: Australian retail sales have met expectations in September, rising 0.4%. Despite coming in line with expectations, the annual increase ...

CANBERRA: Fitch Ratings expects major Australian bank profit growth to slow as the housing market cools and the economy transitions ...

DOHA: Qatargas announced that its Boil-Off Gas (JBOG) recovery facility has safely recovered approximately 535,000 metric tonnes of Liquefied Natural ...

KUWAIT: KIPCO – the Kuwait Projects Company – has announced a net profit of KD 37.2 million (US$ 123.1 million) ...

KUWAIT: Customs detectives found one kilogram of Hashish near the inspection area of Abdali border crossing. Detectives believe that a ...

CANBERRA: Australia’s trade deficit narrowed sharply in September, declining to $2.317 billion. The figure, smaller than the downwardly revised $2.711 ...

JAKARTA: The government plans to attract investments worth Rp 130 trillion (US$9.6 billion) to border areas in the next five ...

WASHINGTON: Payment processing giant Visa announced plans Monday to buy its sister company, Visa Europe, in a deal that could ...

HANOI: Masan Beverage Ltd, part of consumer goods-to-financial services conglomerate Masan Group, will pick 65 per cent stake in Quang ...

MUMBAI: According to a latest report in WSJ, it states that Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc is in talks with ...

BEIJING: Sales of Chinese-brand tablet computers, such as Lenovo and Huawei, rose in the third quarter while those of global ...

BEIJING: China needs 2 trillion yuan (US$315 billion) of “green” investment annually in environment and energy-saving sectors in the next ...

BEIJING: China stocks rallied on Wednesday after President Xi Jinping made comments on its economy and the government unveiled the ...

HANOI:  Profitability of domestic commercial banks has reduced compared to previous years due to rising risk provisions for non-performing loans, ...

HANOI:  Businesses expect further improvements in customs clearance to promote management efficiency while creating convenience in cross border trade, a ...

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks jumped 2.42 percent Wednesday morning, as Japan Post shares skyrocketed in their long-awaited market debut after an ...