KARACHI: Federal Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, during a meeting with State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Ashraf Mahmood Wathra,...

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry has released its employment situation report for June. Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's inflation fell by 0.7 per cent from a year ago in June, compared to the 1.6 per cent...

HANOI: Inflation rose to 2.48 percent at the end of July, with the prices of most services and goods edging...

WASHINGTON: The Finance Ministry has found an unlikely, if temporary, ally in its effort to keep the tax revenues within...

KATHMANDU: Nepal's prime minister resigned on Sunday shortly before he was to face a confidence vote in parliament that he...

BEIJING: China's Huawei has reported a 40 percent rise in its first half revenues for this year, reaching RMB245.5 billion...

DHAKA: Bangladesh Ambassador John Gomes has every reason to feel bad about the delay in the recovery of the $15...

BAGHDAD: Iraq has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become India's top crude oil supplier while Iran has grabbed the fourth biggest...

LISBON: Portugal’s culture minister inaugurated a Jewish heritage center in the country’s east in memory of 80 former residents who...

PODGORICA: Montenegro’s first-half foreign trade deficit widened by 15.7% on the year to 829.4 million euro ($911.1 million), the statistics...

HELSINKI: There were 8,545 enterprise openings in the first quarter of 2016, according to Statistics Finland. Enterprise openings accounted for...

KARACHI: Life insurance companies operating in the private sector earned a net profit of Rs798.6 million in the first quarter...

MUSCAT: Oman’s mining industry has urged authorities to incorporate clear clauses for speedy processing of mining licence in a move...

WARSAW: Unemployment in Poland dropped to 8.8 percent in June, the lowest level in 25 years, according to figures released...

HANOI: Việt Nam’s consumer price index (CPI) rose a modest 0.13 per cent month-on-month in July, the lowest increase since...

SYDNEY: Woolworths, Australia's top grocer, on Monday said it will book costs of up to A$1 billion (S$1 billion), close...

ABU DHABI: The real estate market in Abu Dhabi, UAE, saw a minor decline during the second quarter in most...

SÃO PAULO: As the world starts to focus on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, economists here say they...

BRUSSELS: Property taxes vary widely around the world, from 11.3 percent in Belgium to nothing in New Zealand. The results...