PARIS: France signed arms export contracts worth some €16 billion (US $17.5 billion) in 2015, with Dassault Aviation, MBDA, DCNS...

KUWAIT: Oil prices hit their lowest since 2003 on Monday (Jan 18), as the market braced for a jump in...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) shrank by a worse-than-expected 7.2 per cent in December from a year ago, the...

ANKARA: Turkey’s exports in 2015 showed a decline of 8.7 per cent compared with the previous year, falling to US$144bn,...

BEIJING:  Algeria and China on Sunday inked a 3.3-billion-U.S-dollar deal to build and exploit the new center transshipment port of...

HEBEI: A ship docks at the Qinhuangdao Port yesterday in north China’s Hebei Province. The port posted a record containerized...

BEIJING: China cuts more than 300 billion yuan ($46.15 billion) of taxes in 2015 to boost mass entrepreneurship and innovation,...

BEIJING: China will shut down more than 1,000 coal mines in Guizhou, Yunnan, Heilongjiang and Jiangxi provinces as parts of...

TEHRAN: Iran has reached a deal with the European consortium Airbus to buy 114 passenger planes once international economic sanctions...

BEIJING: China's real estate sector warmed up further in December, with more major cities reporting month-on-month rises in new home...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang said here the other day that Hong Kong can make use of...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has formally launched a new ICT (information, communication and technology) fund for startup ventures worth SAR500 million...

BEIJING: China collected 11.06 trillion yuan ($1.69 trillion) in taxes in 2015, up 6.6 percent year-on-year, new data showed on...

BEIJING: For Chinese, online shops are quickly evolving from simply a means to get a bargain to somewhere movers and...

DUBAI:  Saudi Hollandi Bank posted a 2.3 percent fall in fourth-quarter net profit on Sunday due to higher staffing costs...

SYDNEY: The China Australia Free Trade Agreement, which took effect on Dec 20, promises to boost the dairy industry in...

WASHINGTON: A slumping steel industry led to declines in several key commodities across the Port of Toledo’s docks last year...

BEIJING: When a Chinese restaurant owner in Silicon Valley needs a logo or a menu design, he or she will...

MOSCOW:  Vnesheconombank, one of Russia’s biggest banks, is ready to look at possible cooperation with Iran to promote Russia’s exports,...

TIRANA: Albania's fuel retail prices in the domestic market slightly dropped by an average of 5 ALL (0.04 U.S. dollar)...