Kuwait Banks Ready to Open Subsidiaries in Russia
MOSCOW: Kuwaiti banks would open their representative offices or subsidiaries in Russia if they receive such a proposal, Kuwaiti Central...
Japan’s machinery orders jump 15% in Jan
TOKYO: Japanese core machinery orders jumped 15% in January, the second straight month of increase, the government said Monday, despite...
Russia, China to build railway to eastern Siberia
MOSCOW: Russia and China signed an agreement to construct a railway line linking eastern Siberia to the Chinese province of...
Sri Lanka’s exports to Thailand down to $54 mln in 2014
BANGKOK: Sri Lanka's total exports to Thailand will continue to decline as the total value of Sri Lanka's largest export...
Russia to supply Afghanistan with million tons of oil
MOSCOW: Russia is considering the possibility of supplying Afghanistan with 1.5 million tons of oil per year, according to the...
US wine exports to hit $1.61bn in 2015
WASHINGTON: US wine exports, 90% of which come from California, reached $1.61 billion in 2015 – a 7.6% increase on...
Scomi Engineering building RM57m manufacturing plant in Brazil
KUALA LUMPUR: Scomi Engineering Bhd’s (SEB) manufacturing facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to be modelled after its main facility in...
US export restrictions could force ZTE to find new chips
WASHINGTON: Chinese phone maker ZTE may be using fewer components from Qualcomm, Broadcom, and other US companies in the future....
Iran seeks to up exports volume to Russia by $ 1.5 bln
TEHRAN: Iran plans to increase its exports volume to Russia by $ 1.5 billion in the new Iranian fiscal year...
US Customs seizes meth worth $296,800
SALTON CITY: El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Indio Station working at the Highway 86 checkpoint, arrested...
US Customs arrets most wanted smuggler
SAN DIEGO: The manhunt for a dangerous human smuggler ended last night as Martel Valencia-Cortez, one of the most-wanted targets...
Ecuador authorities seize 1.9 tonnes of cocaine
QUITO: Ecuador seized 1.9 tonnes of cocaine off the coast of the Galapagos Islands, as traffickers ply new routes to...
500k illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized across Wales
LONDON: Almost two tonnes of illegal hand-rolled tobacco - enough to make two million cigarettes - was seized in Wales...
Spike in sugar smuggling raises alarm
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Sugar industry leaders have noticed a spike in the amount of sugar being smuggled into the country as...
Ukraine exports 27.7 mln tons of grain since start of 2015/16 agri-year
KIEV: Ukraine since the beginning of 2015/16 agricultural year (July-June) as of March 11, 2016 had exported 27.732 million tonnes...
Danish children’s rights campaigner found guilty of smuggling
COPENHAGEN: A court in Denmark has fined a prominent children’s rights campaigner for giving a family of Syrian migrants a...
Customs foils bid to smuggle 200k dirhams to Dubai at Karachi airport
KARACHI: Customs officials have arrested a man at the Karachi airport for trying to smuggle 225,700 dirhams (Rs 64 million)...
South China cracks down on sugar smuggling
BEIJING: South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is cracking down on sugar smuggling into the country to protect the market....
S. Kalimantans coal exports decline again 9.8% in 2015
BANJARMASIN: South Kalimantans coal exports declined again by 9.8 percent to 126,800 tons in 2015 from 140,500 tons in the...
China central SOE profits turn around with 4.7% rise in Jan, Feb
BEIJING: Profits of China's central State-owned enterprises or SOEs in the first two months of this year grew 4.7 percent...
