DHAKA: The year 2015 saw the garment sector log in its highest ever export earnings, facilitated in part by the...

ANKARA: The foreign trade deficit has decreased by 49.1 percent over the course of one year, falling from $8.317 billion...

ASUNCIÓN: Annual inflation in Paraguay reached 3.1 percent in 2015 on relatively stable food prices and some increases for imported...

MOSCOW: Russia’s inflation decelerated to its slowest pace this year, even as the weakening ruble and an embargo on Turkish...

DUBAI: Trade in pearls, gemstones, precious metals, plated ornaments and mineral jewels, registering at AED138.9 billion and accounting for 34.1...

SEOUL: The South Korean government will create a US$1.2 billion ship investment fund to aid the shipping industry which has...

MUSCAT: The Port of Salalah has opened a new deep-water general cargo and liquid bulk terminal. The multipurpose terminal will...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday rejected the by the Oil and Gas Development Authority’s (Ogra) summary regarding increase in...

ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan David M Hale Thursday called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his first meeting after...

SEJONG:  Overseas construction orders won by South Korean builders this year fell sharply from a year earlier due to weak...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday congratulated Abdul Rauf Alam of United Business Group on winning the election for the...

SEOUL: South Koreans love their mobile devices. According to Digieco, a research center run by Korea’s KT Corp, smartphone penetration...

MUSCAT: Port of Duqm plans to start export of minerals for the first time in February next year, said a...

NEW DELHI: India offered to step up crude oil imports from Iran as soon as sanctions imposed by the West...

RIYADH: With effect from 13 November 2015, ports in Saudi Arabia will not allow the discharge of any chemicals in...

TOKYO: Nissan's global production has increased for the seventh consecutive year with sales in some markets also rising. In November, Nissan...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has released an amount of Rs45,481.12 million (about Rs45.5 billion) to execute development schemes in Federally...

FAISALABAD: The experts of Punjab Agriculture Department have asked the farmers to start sunflower cultivation from January 1 to get...

DUBAI: Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade reached Dh966 billion during the first nine months of 2015, compared to Dh988 over the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways has announced to upgrade waiting halls of 16 major stations by equipping them with facilities like air-conditioners,...