BEIJING: North Korean food imports from neighboring China dropped again in November, according to recent figures from Chinese customs. The...

JOHANNESBURG: South African white maize prices more than doubled in 2015 to record highs on mounting concerns about a scorching...

TEHRAN: Iran’s Petroleum Ministry and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Industries and Commerce signed an agreement for Iran’s one million tons annual...

HARARE: The African Development Bank has approved $1,5 million support for Zimbabwe’s beef and leather industries. The objective of the...

ANKARA: Turkey’s foreign trade deficit narrowed by 25 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2015 thanks to the...

WASHINGTON: The US industrial giant, General Electric, has announced to win a contract worth nearly $1 billion from the Saudi...

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

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Friday announced a Voluntary Tax Filing Scheme for the traders and said it would help...

TAIPEI: Taiwanese solar cell maker Gintech Energy Corp yesterday said it made NT$162 million (US$4.9 million) in net profit for...

MUMBAI: India will soon ask state-run traders to import half a million tonnes of duty-free corn after a second straight...

TAIPEI: The 62 offshore banking units (OBUs) of banks operating in Taiwan posted total assets of US$187.01 billion in November,...

JAKARTA: In an effort to develop small and micro businesses, 25 banks have been approved to take part in the...

KUALA LUMPUR: CIMB Group expects Malaysia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to be slightly slower at 4.6% in 2016....

NEW DELHI: Country's pulses import shot up to $217.564 million in July-November 2015-16, increased by 45.27 percent, official statistics said....

COLOMBO: Pakistan is likely to sell JF-17 Thunder aircraft, a third-generation fighter co-produced by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and China's...

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet (ECC) meeting, presided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, has approved to...

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s growth is going to be the third highest in the world in 2016, exceeding China’s. The country’s gross...

NEW DELHI: The purchase of cotton by Indian government is expected to drop down to 89 per cent in the...

KARACHI: About 582.56-kilometre roads have been constructed with a Japanese grant of Rs8.87 billion. This was revealed by Works and...

SEOUL: The Korea–Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA) is already delivering strong export returns to Australian farmers - returns that will...