Taiwanese companies hit by US-China trade war lured back home by Taipei

MANILA: The government is strengthening efforts against cigarette smuggling, a finance official said, as lawmakers rush to pass a bill...

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Human trafficking suspected as 65 Rohingya Muslims are found shipwrecked in south Thailand

BANGKOK: Thai officials said they discovered 65 ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees who were shipwrecked and stranded in southern Thailand. The...

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South Africa business sentiment stays at 2-yr low as GDP shrinks

South African business confidence stayed locked at the lowest level in two years in the second quarter as a slump...

Four Dutch arrested for large-scale ‘designer drug’ trafficking

Four Dutch persons were arrested in the Netherlands and Croatia last week as part of a major international investigation into...

Maersk invests €1.5M in HUUB fashion supply startup

Maersk has invested €1.5 million in Portuguese technological startup HUUB, which operates in the supply chain of the fashion industry....

Banking secrets: 3,600 accounts examined by tax department since 2001

Belgium’s tax department has already issued 3,600 authorisations for the auditing of taxpayers’ bank accounts since banking secrecy was relaxed...

Sacked JB Hi-Fi sales star wants more than his $66K compo

Sacked JB Hi-Fi sales star Shailen Kumar says the $66,300 he has been awarded for unjustifiable dismissal is not enough....

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Brazil’s economic recovery hinges on fiscal reforms, central banker says

BRASILIA: The Brazilian economy’s ability to emerge from its current funk and return to “more robust” levels of growth largely...

Dollar almost unchanged around ¥108.30 in late Tokyo trading

The dollar was almost flat around ¥108.30 in Tokyo trading late Thursday after overcoming its early weakness. At 5 p.m.,...

Korea’s won is Asia’s whipping boy in US-China trade war

South Korea's exposure to a stressed global manufacturing supply chain has knocked its currency - Asia's most risk sensitive -...

Jet Airways share price slumps over 23% on report NSE to remove stock from F&O trading from June 28

Jet Airways share price slumped in early trade today after NSE said shares would be pulled out of Futures and...

Peso gains ground, local shares slip

MANILA: The Philippine peso improved against the US dollar Tuesday, ending stronger at the 51-level, but the Philippine Stock Exchange...

Myanmar, Thailand sign agreement to facilitate overland trade

Overland cross-border trade between Myanmar and Thailand will officially commence at the end of July following an agreement to allow...

SA gold slump continues as annual production falls by 19.5%

South Africa's embattled gold sector faced more bad news on Thursday. According to Stats SA, annual gold production shrank by...

Trade disputes lead Dutch central bank to revise down growth forecasts

The pace of economic growth in the Netherlands is set to slow down slightly and is now projected to reach...

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Switzerland, Kenya take their ties to new heights

Kenya Airways will launch direct flights from Nairobi to Geneva and I will be on that inaugural flight. And although...

Ukrainian banks report 69.2% increase in profits during the first four months of 2019

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Ukraine’s banking sector remains on a strong growth trajectory as the far-reaching reforms of the past five years continue to...

Government to crack down on trade fraud