DOHA: Siemens will soon supply six F-class gas turbines, four steam turbines and several generators for a new power generating...

KUWAIT: Acting Director of Drugs Control General Department Colonel Waleed Al-Duraiee said the department received information about an Egyptian man...

COLOMBO: New taxes imposed by Sri Lanka’s government will result in stagnant revenue growth this year as well as lower...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's household debt stood at RM1.03tril or 89.1% of gross domestic product (GDP). Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Chua...

PARIS: Total SA said fuel shortages spread to almost a third of its French gas stations after motorists rushed to...

GENEVA: The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against the BSI SA bank. The...

SINGAPORE: Airpost services provider Sats' reported a 1.7 per cent dip in earnings to S$50.7 million for the fourth quarter...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs yesterday evening detected three suspected smuggling cases at Man Kam To Control Point and seized...

LONDON: British banks could lose at least £1.45bn in payments revenue within the next few years as retailers develop revolutionary...

SALTON CITY: El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents from the Indio Station assigned to the Highway 86 checkpoint arrested a...

TUCSON: Customs and Border Protection officers at the Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry in Douglas, Ariz., arrested a Cananea,...

OTTAWA: Authorities in Canada have announced the reopening of eight shuttered work camps south of the wildfire-ravaged oil town of...

AMSTERDAM: Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of US insurer Transamerica Corp, divested the final ￡3 billion (US$4.4 billion) of annuities...

DUBLIN: Ryanair Holdings PLC forecast that earnings growth would slow this year as a spate of terror attacks and lower...

TAIPEI: Industrial output last month contracted at a faster-than-expected annual rate of 4.06 percent as a faltering global economy curtailed...

BERLIN: German chemicals giant Bayer said yesterday that it has offered US$62 billion for United States agriculture group Monsanto as...

BRUSSELS: Business growth across the eurozone dipped to a 16-month low in May, but stronger showings from Germany and France...

TOKYO: Japan’s exports fell in April at the fastest pace in three months as a stronger yen, and slowdown in...

NEW YORK: Sales of smartphones around the world in the first quarter rose 3.9 percent year on year to 349...

MANILA: The Bureau of Customs in the Philippines is spearheading an initiative that would spur ICT adoption within government organizations....