LAHORE: The business community has urged the government to decrease prices of petroleum products by Rs 8.48 per litre cut,...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting to review arrangements for the planned Housing and Population Census-2016. The...

ATHENS: Greek toy retailer Jumbo said on Thursday net profit for the first half of its financial year to December...

PARIS: Veolia Environnement SA, Europe’s biggest water company, said net income rose 74 percent last year, meeting analysts’ expectations, aided...

OTTAWA: Canada Revenue Agency’s new “autofill” service allows anyone filing 2015 returns online to fill in a lot of the...

DUBLIN: Kerry Group, the firm behind the Charleville, Dairygold, and Low Low brands, posted a trading profit of €700m last...

GENEVA: Switzerland risks sending commodity traders scurrying for the exit when voters cast ballots on Sunday for an initiative seeking...

COPENHAGEN: A new analysis from the University of Copenhagen shows that an influx of refugees doesn’t increase unemployment amongst Danes...

OSLO: Norway said here the other day that it had authorised its pension fund, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund,...

BUDAPEST: Russia’s embargo on European products has reduced Hungary’s export revenues by 4.5 billion dollars, Gyula Budai, ministerial commissioner in...

KANDAHAR CITY: Dried a and fresh fruits worth $68 million have been exported from southern Kandahar province during the current...

TAIPEI: Industrial production fell 5.65 percent year-on-year last month as weak demand dampened the recovery following the Lunar New Year...

JAKARTA: Bank Indonesia (BI) expects the consumer price index (CPI) to fall by around 0.13 percent in the course of...

COLOMBO: Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian (left) and Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen exchange the finalized minutes of...

DOHA: The General Authority of Customs has launched a major marketing campaign to help build awareness for its Single Window...

KUWAIT CITY: The three main indexes of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) have closed at end of current week with an...

KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Bhd posted net profit of RM554.20mil in the fourth quarter ended Dec 31, 2015 compared with a...

SINGAPORE: Aerospace and defence conglomerate Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) saw weak results from its shipbuilding business, offset somewhat by...

BEIJING: China's Internet giant Baidu Inc reported on Friday a 33 percent jump in its revenue in the fourth quarter,...

BEIJING: The value of bonds issued in China in January surged more than 117 percent from a year earlier to...