Year: 2015

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Customs has seized 4.4 million illegal cigarettes worth 130-million in a container at the Orugodawatta Container Yard ...

MADRID: Spanish customs seized 11 tonnes of hashish and detained 55 people across the country as part of an operation ...

COLOMBO: The new Sri Lankan government is seriously considering the controversial US$900 million Colombo Port city project and could scrap ...

CHENNAI: German luxury car manufacturer Audi has opened its second showroom in Bengaluru. This is the third Audi showroom in ...

TEHRAN: Iranian Minister of Industries signed an agreement with its Chinese’s counterpart to set up an industrial town in Jask ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued notifications regarding charge relinquishment/assumption by the four Inland Revenue Services officers of ...

SAN CLEMENTE:  US Border Patrol agents arrested a man at the I-5 Checkpoint who had more than 23 pounds of ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong port ended a year it would rather forget with annual container throughput falling for a third ...

NEW DELHI: What do you do with the best-selling SUV on the market? If you’re Honda and the vehicle is ...

HONG KONG: A telescope aboard a prolific Sun-watching NASA spacecraft has captured its mind-boggling 100 millionth image of the Sun. ...

NEW ZEALAND: Recently California is observing a huge fall of big trees. Although a number of causes have added to ...

ANKARA: Turkey’s Central Bank announced a 0.5 percent cut in its headline interest rate on Jan. 20, following months of ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs smashed a syndicate suspected of cross-boundary smuggling of mobile phones here the other day. Hong ...

AMMAN: The Kingdom's trade deficit went up by 4.1 percent until November 2014, reaching JD9.45 billion compared with JD9.84 billion ...

DUBLIN: The European Central Bank will buy about €12 billion in Irish sovereign bonds in its quantitative easing campaign to ...

MUSCAT: Oman Development Bank (ODB) provided 4,639 loans last year with a growth rate of 7 per cent compared to ...

DUBLIN: Business owners across Fingal, as well as Louth, are set to benefit from a subsidised Business Growth Programme commencing ...

Tunis: Depending on the political will of African Governments, the year of 2015 holds an opportunity for the African continent ...

TEXAS: US Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operation agriculture specialists recently completed an enforcement operation targeting prohibited agriculture ...

SYDENY: Rare frilled shark that has been caught by a fisherman in Australia, where no one remembers ever seeing one ...