Oishi Group eyes South African market
SHANGHAI: Filipino-owned Liwayway Group of Companies, the company behind the Oishi brand, is set to make its first foray outside...
HK Customs seizes cocaine in chocolate wrappers worth HKD1.5 million
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs seized around 1.4 kilograms of suspected cocaine here the other day, which was not-so-craftily concealed...
Indonesia’s foreign exchange reserves jump $5.7b
JAKARTA: Bank Indonesia’s foreign-exchange reserves jumped the most since April 2012 last month, giving the central bank more scope to...
Oman adopts conservative approach in estimating non-oil revenue
MUSCAT: Oman government has adopted a conservative approach in estimating non-oil revenue in the recently announced State Budget for 2016....
China’s PPI falls 5.2% in in 2015
BEIJING: China's producer price index (PPI), which measures wholesale inflation, dropped 5.2 percent year on year in 2015, official statistics...
Iraq extends ban on imports of frozen, live poultry products
BAGHDAD: Iraq has extended a ban on imports of frozen and live poultry products to cover two dozen countries, including...
Bangladesh H1 garment exports up over 9%
DHAKA: Bangladesh saw its garment exports increase over 9% in the first six months of its 2015/2016 financial year, new...
Shanghai tax revenue rises 22% to $170bn in 2015
SHANGHAI: Shanghai’s tax revenue surged 22 percent from a year ago to more than 1 trillion yuan last year for...
Three on trial on charges of importing banned pills to Dubai
DUBAI: Dubai Two merchants and a trading company manager have been accused of importing 35 million banned pills and 2.5...
China’s online gaming industry revenue grows by 30%
BEIJING: The revenue of China's online gaming sector kept growing by around 30 percent annually in the past eight years,...
Association warns of slow auto sales during January
BEIJING: China's auto dealers might find the road a little rocky in January after customer demand was largely met at...
Japan presses Singapore to ease ban on Fukushima food imports
TOKYO: Japan pressed Singapore to ease its ban on Fukushima food imports, following the European Union's move to relax restrictions...
Norway seafood exports more than double in 10 years
OSLO: Norway exported seafood worth NOK 74.5 billion in 2015. This is 8 per cent, or NOK 5.8 billion, more...
Egg imports from Ukraine to Israel halted
KIEV: Eggs imported from Ukraine, where there is no mandatory inoculation of chickens against salmonella, were sold in Israel for...
Kazakhstan shipped record high volumes of linseed for export
ASTANA: Linseed exports from Kazakhstan reached 45.3 KMT in November, that was 76% higher than in October and 54% higher...
China consumer prices growth hit 6-yr low in 2015
BEIJING: China's consumer inflation continued to slow in 2015 due to lackluster domestic demand amid a slowing economy, official data...
China’s forex reserves ‘abundant’: regulator
BEIJING: China's foreign exchange reserves are "relatively abundant" despite a record monthly drop, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)...
China to invest $11.7bn into new airports this year
BEIJING: China is to invest about 77 billion yuan ($11.7 billion) this year on the construction of civil aviation infrastructure,...
Bank deposits in Albania rise to $7.7bn in Nov
TIRANA: The total deposits in Albania's banking system rose to 974 billion Lek (7.7 billion U.S. dollars) by the end...
ADB’s operations hit record high of $27.15bn in 2015
MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here the other day that its operations reached an all-time high of 27.15...
