Food inflation in shock rise to 8.7%
JOHANNESBURG: Food prices in South Africa rose by an average of 8.7 percent between December 2014 and December 2015 and...
ING, DBS sees January inflation barely moving
MANILA: Singapore-based DBS Bank Ltd. and Dutch financial giant ING Bank expect inflation in the Philippines to have barely moved...
Russian inflation falls 10% for first time in 14 months
MOSCOW: The annual inflation in Russia has fallen into single digits in February for the first time since December 2014,...
PM meets Jordanian Turkish business council
AMMAN: Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Thursday met with the Joint Jordanian-Turkish Business Council that comprises the Jordanian Businessmen Association...
Iraq Kurds to pay partial salaries due to economic crisis
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Kurdish region has announced it will pay only partial salaries to all government employees except security personnel as...
Polish GDP to grow 5th fastest in EU
WARSAW: Real-GDP growth in Poland will continue at a strong and steady pace of 3.5 percent in both 2016 and...
Portuguese Portucel Soporcel Group raises sales, profits in 2015
LISBON: Portucel Soporcel says year 2015 is a landmark in the company's history. Portucel became a player on the tissue...
Norwegian seafood exports surge 18%
OSLO: Norwegian seafood exports surged to 6.7 billion kroners last month, a rise of 18 per cent or one billion...
Border force seizes 5 packets of charas at Indo-Nepal border
KATHMANDU: Sahastra Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) sleuths today seized charas worth Rs 29 lakh from a person at Raxual on...
Nepse crosses 1,250 pts to set fresh record
KATHMANDU: Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) on Thursday crossed 1,250 points, setting a fresh record. The benchmark index escalated 9.29 points...
Ukraine to lose $1.1 bln on export in 2016
KIEV: Ukraine’s losses on export due to Russia’s restrictions will top $1.1. bln in 2016, Governor of the National Bank...
Tax office gets 10,864 fraud alerts in 2015
HELSINKI: The Tax Administration last year received through its hotline 10,864 tips of suspected tax frauds. According to the Tax...
Finland to grant EUR 28.4m to Turkey refugees
HELSINKI: Syrian refugees wait on the Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on February 1, 2016. Turkey, which is hosting at least...
Vietnam’s cashew exports jump 15.6% in Jan
HCM CITY: Viet Nam's cashew exports in January jumped 15.6 per cent year-on-year to US$183 million, according to the Ministry...
Revenue from crude oil falls sharply in Jan
HANOI: The total state budget revenue in January was 95 per cent of the revenue year-on-year due to about 66...
UAE’s non-oil trade reaches Dh792 bln in 2015
ABU DHABI: The UAE’s non-oil trade reached Dh792 billion in the first nine months of 2015, remaining stable compared to...
Italian cabinet meeting to discuss various reforms
ROME: Italian cabinet meeting to discuss various reforms of the troubled banking sector has been postponed until next week, government...
Australian utility AGL to exit upstream gas operations
CANBERRA: Eastern Australia-based utility AGL Energy has decided to shut its upstream gas operations, citing the "volatility of commodity prices...
Torkham Customs generates Rs 4b revenue annually, Rs 361m monthly
PESHAWAR: Torkham Customs Station generates monthly revenue of about of Rs 361 million and nearly Rs 4 billion annually. Torkham...
Saif Ullah takes helm of Karachi I&I-IR as director
ISLAMABAD: Saif Ullah Khan, a BS-20 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of Director,...
