TAIPEI: Industrial heavyweights yesterday urged the incoming government to maintain cross-strait rapprochement and facilitate a review of the service trade...

LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the government is fully aware of the difficulties being faced by agriculture sector....

DOHA: Qatar Navigation (Milaha) yesterday held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and ratified all the items on agenda of the...

MOSCOW: Total imports of polyethylene (PE) into Ukraine increased to 38,900 tonnes in the first two months of 2015, up...

LAHORE: The Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has reduced the urban public transport fares to about 11 percent after recent reduction...

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Finance Chairman Senator Saleem Mandviwalla has called for closure of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan...

HANOI: Beverage companies seek to delay until the beginning of 2017 the application of amended regulations on calculating their special...

KUWAIT: Abdaly customs officers foiled a track driver’s attempt to smuggle 13,270 captagon tablets into Kuwait. A source said that...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is planning to import 1000MW electricity from Turkmenistan on a fast-track basis, said President Mamnoon Hussain. While talking...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan has presided over a meeting to prepare proposals and chalk out a...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s exports fell 18.7% to US$ 817.5 million in December 2015 from a year earlier while imports fell...

ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan and Turkmenistan have signed eight accords on cooperation including an MoU on financial intelligence to curb...

CANBEERA: Australia's unemployment rate has unexpectedly dropped to 5.8 per cent, in positive economic news for the Turnbull government ahead...

BRUSSELS: The European Union's envoy to Israel met Wednesday with Israel's Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz to discuss possible exports of...

OSLO: The European Union granted export licences for 991,000 tonnes of soft wheat this week, but the big weekly volume,...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand shares eked out a small gain Thursday, helped by data showing the economy grew at a faster...

AMSTERDAM: Netherlands Dutch parliament has already voted against the exportation of armaments to Saudi Arabia as a form of protest...

BRASÍLIA: The most recent statistics released by Brazil’s Secretary of Foreign Trade (Secex) indicates significant rise in iron ore exports...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs concluded a two-day territory-wide anti-piracy operation yesterday and seized more than 14,000 suspected pirated optical...

SEOUL: The Korea Iron and Steel Association announced on March 16 that South Korea imported 1.776 million tons of steel...