JERUSALEM: 2,000 Moldovan construction laborers are expected in Israel as plans to bring in Chinese workers have stalled. The housing department...

WUZHEN: Alibaba founder Jack Ma said Wednesday that he is willing to increase e-commerce business in Russia, where his company...

BEIJING: Changes to China's value-added tax (VAT) policy are expected to be complete by the first half of 2016, ending...

ISLAMABAD: After decrease in solar photovoltaic (PV) prices in the global market, the upfront tariff for new solar power plants...

JAKARTA: Indonesia will import 600,000 tonnes of corn in the first quarter of 2016, the chief executive of the state...

LAHORE: Russia has announced to invest $2 billion in 1,100-km-long pipeline for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Karachi’s port...

ISLAMABAD: The leftover development work in the federal capital’s sector D-12 would be completed in three months. The Capital Development...

WASHINGTON: Pier 1 Imports Inc. PIR, +4.02% shares fell in the extended session Wednesday after the specialty retailer's quarterly sales...

BEIJING: China's central bank projected its baseline forecast for 2016 growth at 6.8 percent on Wednesday, expecting the number of...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX), a key gauge of the export performance of the small and highly open economy,...

FRANKFURT: Germany's imports of natural gas jumped 22 percent in the first ten months of 2015, though lower crude oil...

TOKYO: Japan logged a goods trade deficit of 379.72 billion yen (about 3.11 billion U.S. dollars) in November after a...

HONG KONG: Untaxed European Union-made cigarettes worth HK$52 million have been confiscated in Hong Kong during a joint operation between...

PORTAGE: Exports topped imports at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor for the first time in several months as the Great...

WALLINGTON: A 22-year-old Hamilton man has been sentenced to two years and seven months’ imprisonment for importing and possessing drugs....

MOSCOW: The Russian presidential decree to suspend the implementation of the Commonwealth of Independent States free trade deal in regard...

KATHMANDU: Imports from major Nepal-India customs points dipped by as much as 59 per cent in the first four months...

CHANDIGARH: In its largest destruction of seized heroin ever, a high-level drug disposal committee of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)...

ALGIERS: More than 5,700 smuggled mobile phones were seized Monday, by a detachment of the People's National Army (ANP), coming...

LONDON: A whopping 130 kilos of cocaine and heroin – with a street value of £8million – has been seized...