PESHAWAR: Former State Bank of Pakistan governor Ishrat Hussain has said that the Islamic banking system have not facilitated common...

KIEV: Ukraine plans to reduce imports of natural gas in 2016 by 20-30% compared to 2015, down to 11-13 billion...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said the increase in exports of Afghan products was a victory for traders and...

BRUSSELS: European Members of Parliament have endorsed a plan to help the Tunisian economy in the wake of last year’s...

BANGKOK: Thailand’s exports fell more than expected in December and contracted much more in 2015 than in the previous two...

ATHENS: Greece's current account deficit shrank in November from the same month a year earlier, mainly due to a lower...

BERLIN: Germany's imports prices declined at the weakest pace in four months during December, figures from Destatis showed Thursday. The...

KARACHI: Chevron Pakistan Lubricants has announced to bring more than Rs 2 billion investment in Pakistan in the next three...

TAIPEI: DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology Corp yesterday posted its weakest quarterly net profit in 10 quarters for the last quarter...

CAPE TOWN: Domestic cementitious volumes in South Africa increased by 7.8 per cent YoY to 3.6523Mt in the third quarter...

JAKARTA: The government needs to create a level playing field regarding its plans to allow 100 percent foreign ownership of...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is slated to get US $ 1 billion from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as financial assistance...

DOHA: Qatar’s foreign merchandise trade surplus (the difference between total exports and imports) was at QR9.3bn for December 2015. It...

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil ministers said yesterday that OPEC will not cut production unless producers outside the cartel...

ALGIERS: Algeria's 2015 grain imports rose 11.2 percent to 13.67 million tons despite efforts to curb purchases from abroad, official...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Thursday trimmed its 2016 growth forecast as a slump in oil prices forced Prime Minister Najib...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand imports rose to a record high last year as a decline in the value of the currency...

SINGAPORE: Las Vegas Sands Corp, the world's largest casino operator, posted fourth-quarter sales and profit that missed analysts' estimates as...

BEIJING: China's Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co confirmed on Wednesday an unsolicited takeover bid for Terex Corp, the...

BEIJING: China and Chile are in talks to expand the 10-year-old free trade agreement between the two sides, to boost...