ISLAMABAD: The government is making all necessary arrangements to start Karachi-Gwadar and Karachi-Iran ferry services within two months. The services...

MILAN: General Electric said on Sunday it had signed an agreement to invest $600 million in Italy in research and...

LONDON: Europe’s largest lender, HSBC, is imposing a hiring and pay freeze across the bank globally in 2016, two sources...

JERUSALEM: Intel Israel's exports fell slightly to $4.1 billion in 2015, 11% of Israel's high-tech exports (industry and services). Exports...

LAHORE: The Punjab government is spending over Rs 630 million on the establishment of new fish hatcheries and nursery units...

LONDON: The UK manufacturing PMI, just released, showed that activity rose to a three month high of 52.9 in January,...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand honey exports soared 41 percent to a new record last year as the country benefited from demand...

BRASILIA: Petroleo Brasileiro SA will cut its 2016-2020 investment plan by 5 percent to $93 billion as the state-run oil...

ANKARA: Israeli and Turkish energy firms signed an agreement on Sunday to sell $1.3 billion worth of gas to Edeltech,...

KIGALI: The government is setting up an export credit and insurance facility aimed at improving Rwanda’s trade competitiveness in the...

TOKYO: Japan Post Bank plans to start in-house investments in stocks in the second half of 2016, according to Katsunori...

ISLAMABAD: The timeline of work on 1,100-kilometre gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore worth $2 billion will be finalised by...

KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) issued the following shipping report for the last 24 hours, ending 0700 hours on...

CAIRO: Egypt's biggest lender, the state-owned National Bank of Egypt, provided more than $2.5 billion to cover import payments in...

OSLO: Norway’s largest bank, DNB, has said that cash has fallen out of favour with everyday Norwegians and is instead...

COPENHAGEN: The Norwegian discount supermarket chain Rema 1000 is stepping up the competition with its main rival Netto by announcing...

TOKYO: Japan’s Ministry of Finance has released official import statistics for 2015, with bananas, pineapples and grapefruit leading fruit imports...

MADRID: Car sales at seven-year high in Spain, the association of Spanish car producers (ANFAC) confirmed that 2015 was the...

CANBERRA: Chinese thermal coal imports tumbled last year, mirroring the decline seen in coking coal imports over the same time...

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government, under its five-year (2015-2020) plan, has announced to give two million free of cost olive saplings...