COPENHAGEN: Danish roofing manufacturer Icopal will be sold to North America's largest roofing manufacturer GAF for approximately 1 billion euros,...

SOFIA: During the first ten months of 2015, Bulgaria's fresh vegetable imports increased by 18%, reaching 190.9 thousand tonnes, while...

HANOI: Vietnam’s market year 2014-15 wheat consumption remained at 2.15 million tonnes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural...

NEW YORK: World steel production shed 2.8 percent last year to 1.62 billion tons after five years of growth, with...

BEIJING: Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group Co has agreed to invest up to $10 billion in India to...

BEIJING: China’s state-owned enterprises reported a drop in profit for 2015 as the broader economy recorded the slowest annual expansion...

BEIJING: As the date to release the annual report pushes closer, performance forecasts have been released by listed companies and...

RAWALPINDI: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence Production has recommended allocation of a separate annual budget for the Ministry...

MUMBAI: Edible oil imports could rise as much as 11 per cent to a record 16 million tonnes in the...

BEIJING: China will export more aviation, transportation and telecommunication technologies and products this year as global demand has changed and...

HANGZHOU: The GDP of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, grew by 10.2 percent to one trillion yuan ($150 billion) in...

SINGAPORE: Singapore-focused business park and industrial property trust Viva Industrial Trust has posted a 20.6 per cent rise in distributable...

HONG KONG: The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Mr Gregory So, and the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Mr...

HONG KONG: During an anti-narcotics operation at Hong Kong International Airport last Thursday, around three kilograms of suspected methamphetamine was...

KUALA LUMPUR: Global palm oil production is expected to be lower in 2016 than forecast due to the El Niño...

CAPE TOWN: Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P’s) expects a tough year for the South African economy. In its ‘Sub-Saharan...

KUWAIT: 2015 was a milestone for Kuwait’s projects market, with an unprecedented KD 9.7 billion ($32.2 billion) worth of contracts...

DOHA: Qatar is expected to witness an estimated spending of about $12bn (QR43.7bn) by 2024, a sharp jump of 150...

COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is likely to make its formal application for the European Union’s (EU) General System of...

JAKARTA: State-owned lender PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) will make available Rp 11.5 trillion (US$72 million) in its 2016 micro...