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HANOI: Shares inched lower for a second straight day, weighed down by banks and oil companies. The benchmark VN-Index on the...

HANOI: The Central Transport Hospital yesterday received VND116.8 billion (US$5.2 million) after selling 4.95 million shares during its' initial public...

SEOUL: SK Hynix, the world's second-largest maker of memory chips, posted a 6.3 percent rise in operating profit during the...

MADRID: Spain's unemployment is expected to fall by 650,000 people this year, the economics newspaper Expansion reported on Wednesday citing...

HANOI: Lower global prices have prompted coffee growers in Vietnam, the world's largest robusta producer, to ease the pace of...

HANOI: Malaysia’s GrabTaxi , which has secured $650 million through five funding rounds, has become the first peer-to-peer business to...

KATHMANDU: As much as 140,000 litre diesel and 20,000 litre aviation fuel has been sent to the Capital from the...

JAKARTA: State-run coal miner Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam continued to book profits in the first nine months of the year...

JAKARTA: The government expects to see additional income from the gas sector following the signing of six new gas sale...

WASHINGTON: 795 million people around the world do not have access to a sufficient supply of safe and nutritious food....

DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), rated A- S&P / A+ Fitch (both stable outlook), priced a highly successful $750m 5-year...

NAIROBI:  Kenya's banking regulator missed possible "malpractices" at Imperial Bank Ltd before it was taken over by a government agency...

DOHA: Nakilat, the shipping arm of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector, delivered QR756.3m profits for the first nine months...

KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait announced net profit of KD 25.4 million for the nine months period of 2015 compared...

WASHINGTON: North Sea tax receipts have plunged into the red for the first time in the sector’s history after the...

NEW DELHI: To reduce India's dependence on Colombo and Singapore ports for handling cargo traffic, the Narendra Modi government is...

HARARE: The global energy industry needs to invest $13.5 trillion through 2030 in efficiency measures and low-carbon technologies in order...

ABUJA: Nigeria Customs Ser­vice has said it will stop at nothing in its efforts to recover the N23.6 billion owed...

ABU DHABI: The Naturalisation and Residency prosecution of Al Ain jailed an Omani national and a Bangladeshi woman for 7...

BUDAPEST: Hungarian prosecutors say 21 police officers working at a border crossing with Ukraine have been detained, suspected of regularly...