COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Customs (SLC) is expected to collect Rs. 1 trillion as tax revenue for 2016, Director General Chulananda...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian state oil company Petrobras will sell its share in Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in Latin...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's container throughput and cargo throughput fell by 8.7 percent and 1.1 percent respectively in 2015 year-on-year, according to...

PARIS: The French consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.2 percent in December 2015 as increasing prices of services and...

TOKYO: Japan's core machinery orders plummeted a seasonally adjusted 14.4 percent in November from a month earlier, marking the first...

LONDON: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced Wednesday that its investment into central Asia reached a record...

SEOUL: South Korea's central bank on Thursday froze interest rates at a record low as expected, keeping a wait-and-see stance...

LONDON: The United Kingdom-based oil and gas giant BP Plc plans to increase its business in the natural gas sector...

Beijing: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is aiming big for its smartphone business. Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, set an...

BEIJING: China's outbound M&A volume increased for the sixth consecutive year to a record high of $111.9 billion in 2015,...

BEIJING: China has achieved progress in diversification of trading partners. In 2015, the bilateral trade between China and its largest...

BEIJING: China's foreign trade ran into difficulties last year, with imports and exports both experiencing year-on-year declines. Despite encouraging figures...

BEIJING: Increase in exports of products developed locally through innovation has helped upgrade the trade and industrial structure of Dongguan,...

BEIJING: Two days after unveiling the first new vehicle from Detroit's Big 3 imported from China, General Motors Co said...

ISLAMABAD: Uzbekistan Ambassador Furkat A. Sidikov visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) and said that his country was...

BRASILIA: Brazil’s real followed commodities higher after a report showed Chinese exports unexpectedly rose last month in yuan terms. The...

HIDALGO: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo and Anzalduas International Bridges arrested two...

JAMAICA: An arriving passenger was planning to enjoy a very interesting cocktail, but U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers...

NEW YORK: U.S. Department of Commerce has ruled that Turkish steel exporters would be exempt from a special tariff imposed...

TUCSON: Paul A. Beeson, newly appointed Chief Patrol Agent of Tucson Sector, takes command and will lead Tucson Sector into...