Year: 2015

NAIROBI: Kenya's central bank said on Wednesday it planned to inject 7 billion shillings ($68.46 million) into the money markets ...

HARARE: Zimasco, a unit of China's Sinosteel Corporation has completely stopped operations at its ferrochrome refinery in Kwekwe after switching ...

BEIJING: China's outstanding foreign debt settled at $1.53 trillion by the end of September, data from the country's forex regulator ...

BEIJING: China continued to see a deficit in foreign service trade in November but the volume has narrowed, data from ...

BEIJING: Bank of China Ltd has agreed to sell a 20 percent stake in a power company, Huaneng International Power ...

HARARE:  Barclays Bank is to pay out $13,75m (£9,3m) to settle a US regulator’s claims that some of its customers ...

ROME: Apple has agreed to pay Italy 318 million euros (US$348 million) to settle a tax dispute after the US ...

PHOENIX: Phoenix Commodities has secured a tender to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer ...

TOKYO: Tokyo’s shares ended the year on a high note, climbing more than 9 percent in 2015 to rank among ...

ISLAMABAD: The price of petrol will likely be hiked from January 1, however, prices of other petroleum product will be ...

NAIROBI: Kenya's economy grew by 5.8 percent in the third quarter of 2015, up from the 5.2 percent experienced in ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's consumer price index is expected to grow at a slower pace to around 3 percent this year, far ...

SOFIA: The Bulgarian cabinet on Wednesday approved a decision to close down the Customs Agency unit of Svilengrad, days after ...

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s has a highly diversified industrial base and the broadly-based manufacturing sector produces in excess of 6 000 products ...

SHILLONG: Customs officers from Headquarters’ Preventive Unit, Shillong seized smuggled Chinese origin mobile handsets numbering over 200 valued Rs. 2.14 ...

JAIPUR: Nearly 65 kilograms of ketamine, popularly known as the `date rape drug', was seized in a raid conducted by ...

MOSCOW: Between December 19 and 29 this year, bulk terminals of Krasnodar Territory based sea ports loaded 1.032 million tonnes ...

MUMBAI : On Wednesday, the Anti-Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police revealed that it has seized drugs that value more than ...

MUMBAI: The air intelligence unit (AIU) of the airport customs on Wednesday arrested a couple for smuggling gold worth Rs60.88 ...

KOLKATA: The arrest of two small-time turtle traders in North Kolkata in August has triggered a domino effect in what ...