KABUL: The deteriorated security situation, administrative corruption and political instability are found main hurdles to the development of trade, industry...

BEIJING: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country's largest lender, announced Wednesday that its net profits grew 0.5...

WASHINGTON: Australia's Qube Holdings Ltd and Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc are raising a A$1 billion ($753 million) loan to...

BEIJING: Chen Siqing, president of BOC, said: "Commercial banks have reached the end of the era when they had double-digit...

BENGALURU: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), which ships more than half of India’s container cargo passing through its ports, plans...

BEIJING: China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) reached 2.02 trillion yuan in revenues last year, a 28.6 percent drop year...

BEIJING: China Cinda Asset Management, one of the country's four state-owned distressed asset managers, reported a 17.9 percent increase in...

NEW DELHI: Buoyed by pick-up in demand, India's 12 major ports saw cargo traffic increase by 4.18 per cent to...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has approved several development projects worth Rs 218.219 billion. The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) meeting,...

MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has reduced its economic growth forecast for the Philippines to 6 percent for this...

BERLIN: Annual inflation rate in Germany returned to an above-zero level in March, but remained far below the authority's maintenance...

KARACHI: The Asian Development Bank, in its latest report, has projected positive results, saying Pakistan’s economy will continue to pick...

ST.PETERSBURG: Sales of imported automobiles in Russia this year might fall at twice the market’s overall rate, government analysts predict....

MOSCOW: Russia's expansion as a sugar producer is likely to generate a surplus of the sweetener in 2016/17 with exports...

JAKARTA: To reduce dwelling time, the government has announced a new policy that would integrate risk assessment on goods imported...

MOSCOW: Head of Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Sergey Dankvert does not rule out that a ban...

DUBLIN: Cocaine with an estimated street value of €500,000 was seized during the search of a premises at Coolquay, The...

LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has installed third and last radial gate on spillway of 969MW Neelum-Jhelum...

LONDON: The Department for Work and Pensions has spent over £100,000 on lawyers fighting a court battle to save its...

PARIS: The French data protection authority said it has fined Google 100,000 euros (US$111,720) for not scrubbing Web search results...