HCM City becoming cigarette smuggling hub
HCM CITY: Smuggling of cigarettes from Cambodia into HCM City is becoming increasingly sophisticated, making it hard for authorities to...
Kuwait police nab Saudi with 600g meth
KUWAIT: Criminal detectives arrested a Saudi national red-handed using and smuggling drugs, and found 600 gm of shabu (meth) on...
Philippines Customs sees CMTA approval next year
MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is confident that the proposed Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) will be passed...
US Customs seizes 95 pounds of liquid meth at border
NEW YORK: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested two people Dec. 18 after they found liquid methamphetamine inside a...
Nigerian Customs arrests 23 with 1,300 cartons of frozen poultry products
ABUJA: The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘C’, of Nigeria Customs Service, Owerri, has arrested 23 suspects in connection with...
Brazil imports from GCC hit $2.54 bln in 2015
BRASÍLIA: In the same period, mineral fuel and oil were noted as the top imports amounting to a total of...
Philippines Customs to reshuffle set in January
MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC), government’s second largest tax agency, will reshuffle its key personnel in January in a...
Singapore court sentences 5-years jail to cigarette smuggler
SINGAPORE: A key member of a cigarette smuggling syndicate was sentenced to five years in jail on Tuesday for his...
Sri Lanka Customs nabs passenger with chains, bracelets
COLOMBO: BIA KatunayakeA passenger was arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) today wuth chains and bracelets in his possession....
Hong Kong Customs seizes counterfeit medicines
HONG KONG: Acting on information, Hong Kong Customs conducted a strike-and-search operation in Kwun Tong and Ngau Tau Kok and...
Vietnam GDP rises by 7% in 4Q
HO CHI MINH: Vietnam's economic growth quickened in the fourth quarter helped by rising industrial output and record- high foreign...
China’s state companies profit down 9.5% YoY to $301bn in Jan-Nov
BEIJING: Profit declines for China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) continued but narrowed in November, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday....
PetroChina puts sprawling pipeline assets into $12b firm
BEIJING: Chinese energy giant PetroChina Co is putting a sprawl of pipeline operations into a single company with a registered...
Ratchaburi Electricity joins China’s nuclear project
BEIJING: Thailand's Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Public Co Ltd has formed a joint venture with two Chinese companies to help...
Xinjiang’s produces 30b cubic meters gas in 2015
URUMQI: Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has produced more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year,...
China to cut on-grid tariffs for solar, wind power
BEIJING: China will cut payments to wind and solar electricity generators for contributing power to the grid, the country's state...
China receives $439m loans from EIB in 2015
BEIJING: China received around 401 million euros (US$439 million) in loans this year from the European Investment Bank, the Ministry...
Entrepreneur confidence index downs by 4.5% in Q4: PBOC survey
BEIJING: Chinese entrepreneurs are not as confident about the macro economy as they were in the previous quarter, said a...
3.7% deficit target: Ukraine approves state budget for 2016
KIEV: The Ukrainian parliament adopted on Friday the state budget for 2016, setting a deficit target of 3.7 percent of...
Customs seizes $74,925 from returning Taiwanese man
TAIPEI: A Taiwanese businessman who was trying to bring 9 million Japanese yen (US$74,925) into Taiwan lost about two thirds...
