Nigeria Customs seizes 100 cartons of poultry products
ABUJA: The Nigeria Customs Service headquarters compliance team, Idiroko axis has intercepted an Isuzu Mini truck with registration number LSR...
Counterfeit shoes worth US$150,000 seized in east China
BEIJING: Xiamen Customs in east China's Fujian Province seized more than 14,000 pairs of fake Adidas, Nike and Puma shoes...
HCMC Customs tax collection rises 5% to $4.25bn in 2015
HCM CITY: The HCM City customs department collected taxes worth nearly VND94 trillion (US$4.25 billion) last year, a 5 per...
Malaysia’s Customs seeks heavier penalties over illegal cigarettes
PASIR GUDANG: The Customs Department wants heavier punishment meted out to business owners found to be selling contraband cigarettes in...
Senate approves Philippines Customs modernization act
MANILA: The Senate on Monday, approved on 3rd and final reading the proposed Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), which...
China Customs seizes smuggled iPhones worth RMB500,000
BEIJING: Huanggang Customs House (affiliated to Shenzhen Customs District) seized an entry smuggling case, in which 360 iPhones were hided...
China retail sales rise 11.1% in Dec
BEIJING: China's retail sales of consumer goods performed well in December thanks to pro-consumption policies from the government, official data...
Belarus Customs prevents illegal import of Br90b worth of goods on border with Russia in 2015
MOSCOW: Mobile teams of the Belarusian customs service prevented the attempts to smuggle goods worth Br90 billion, on the Belarusian-Russian...
China police bust cross-border drug gang
HENAN: Police in the central Chinese province of Henan apprehended 114 suspected members of an organized cross-border drug syndicate. The...
Russia destroys Polish mushrooms, Turkish tomatoes
MOSCOW: Russia's plant health watchdog has seized and destroyed around 588kg (1,296lbs) of banned vegetables since last Wednesday, in two...
China industrial output grows 5.9% in Dec
BEIJING: China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, grew 5.9 percent year on year in December, down from the...
Russian government backs industries support plan — PM
MOSCOW: The Russian government supported the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Trade to aid branches of industry in...
Wanda plans ‘substantial’ deals as property sales slump
BEIJING: Dalian Wanda Group Co, the property-to-entertainment conglomerate headed by Asia's richest man, is planning five "substantial" acquisitions this year...
Lufax valued at $18.5bn with new funding
SHANGHAI: Lufax, the Internet financial arm of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company, is valued at $18.5 billion with a recent...
Asia Clean Capital receives $40m finance facility from Goldman Sachs
HONG KONG: Asia Clean Capital Ltd (ACC), a renewable energy solutions provider, just announced a $40 million project finance facility...
Crude shock lands Chinese oil majors on a slippery slick
BEIJING: Experts say despite past irrational overseas investments, spending may well continue as good deals are still possible The year-end...
New Zealand Treasury chief appreciates China’s role in AIIB
WELLINGTON: The head of the New Zealand Treasury on Monday praised China's contribution to the setting up of the new...
China’s economic growth down but within ‘reasonable’ range
BEIJING: Chinese economic growth decelerated to the 25-year low of 6.9 percent in 2015, down from 7.3 percent in 2014,...
Wealthiest 62 people now own half the world’s population
BRUSSELS: The wealthiest 62 people now own as much as half the world’s population, some 3.5 billion people, as the...
Spain’s bad loans ratio falls to 10.35% in Nov
MADRID: Spanish banks' bad debts as a percentage of total loans fell to 10.35 percent in November, according to provisional...
