ISLAMABAD: The government has delayed the process of privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for six months as protests against...

LAHORE: The ginners have asked the government not to waive duty and tax on the import of cotton from India....

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has set a target of planting 159 million trees throughout the country in the next three...

BEIJING: Figures released on Friday showed how the slowing economy has taken its toll on China's collection of taxes and...

ANKARA: Turkey imported 3 million mt of bituminous thermal coal in December, bringing the total volume for 2015 up to...

BEIJING: China's 2015 fiscal revenue growth fell to a 28-year low of 5.8 percent, the lowest since 1987. General fiscal...

WASHINGTON: US economic growth braked sharply in the fourth quarter of last year as businesses stepped up efforts to reduce...

WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc has banned sale of guns on its online social network and its Instagram photo-sharing service. The move...

ABU DHABI: South Korea is importing about 100 million barrels of crude oil every year from the UAE and the...

MADRID: Consumption continued to rise in Spain contributing to the country's economic recovery, the economics newspaper Expansion reported on Thursday...

HANOI: Vietnam's gasoline imports from South Korea could see an increase this year, following a reduction in import duty since...

PARIS: Growth of gross domestic product (GDP) in France, the eurozone's second largest economy, would accelerate this year, but it...

SKOPJE: The Macedonian State Statistical Office (SSO) on Friday reported industrial production in December 2015 increased by 10.5 percent compared...

NEW DELHI: Essar Oil, the top Indian buyer of Iranian crude, imported 96 percent more oil from Tehran in December...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico's official statistics bureau, the National Institute for Statistics and Geography (Inegi), announced Friday that Mexico had grown...

RIGA: Retail trade picked up in Latvia last year, showing a 4.9 percent growth in constant prices compared to 2014,...

LONDON: OPEC oil production has jumped to its highest in recent history in January as Iran increased sales following the...

TIRANA: Albania's exports fell by 7.7 percent in December 2015 compared with December 2014, official figures showed here the other...

JAKARTA: The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in cooperation with the Central Java and Yogyakarta customs and excise offices uncovered on...

BANGKOK: Thailand’s government will buy natural rubber directly from growers as the world’s largest producer shores up efforts to stem...