International Customs

ABUJA: Smuggling of rice across Nigerian borders has reached prohibitive levels, with hundreds of trailers plying back and forth from...

NEW YORK: A lorry driver who smuggled more than 146 million cigarettes into the UK hidden behind crates of rotting...

ABUJA: The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase on Thursday, renewed old ties with the Nigerian Customs Service. The partnership is...

BRASÍLIA: Officials at a Brazilian prison said they captured a trained mouse used by prisoners to shuttle drugs and other...

KIEV: The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine may get a new chief, a foreigner, a well-informed source in the cabinet...

WASHINGTON: Pegatron has reported consolidated revenues of NT$175.299 billion (US$3.35 billion) for October 2015, representing a 5.55% increase on month...

BAGHDAD: Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced on Wednesday, that the defense spending will be about 20 percent of the budget...

WASHINGTON: Insulation and building envelope manufacturer Kingspan said on Monday that sales rose by 44 per cent in the nine...

KIEV: Natural gas stocks as of early morning on November 9 reached 17 billion cubic meters (bcm), 9 percent more...

KIEV:  During three recent seasons, Ukraine counties steadily increasing the production volumes of rapeseed oil, due to both significant increasing...

SEOUL:  South Korean stocks shed 0.75 percent on Monday amid growing expectations for a U.S. rate hike following better-than-expected job...

SEJONG:  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Monday downgraded South Korea's 2015 economic growth outlook due to...

SEOUL: Iran has signed preliminary agreements with shipbuilders from South Korea, Germany and China for the construction of high-tech liquefied...

TOKYO: Shares in Japan and Shanghai rallied to fresh 2 1/2-month highs Monday, lifted by a weaker yen and stimulus...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand shares extended their decline from a record high after Vector sold a gas pipeline business at a...

WELLINGTON: The manufacturing industry used around 157,000 terajoules of energy in 2014, down 8 percent from 2012, Statistics New Zealand...

WELLINGTON: General Electric Co. has agreed to sell its Australian commercial-lending operation to Sankaty Advisors, the global credit affiliate of...

CANBERRA:  Australian shares plunged to more than one-month lows on Monday as investors fretted about tumbling commodity prices and the...

HCM CITY: Vietnamese and Japanese researchers have developed technologies to reduce proteins in natural rubber, thereby permitting the production of...

HANOI: Vietnam's benchmark VN Index was nearly flat at the break on Monday, edging down 0.06 percent, with gains in...