International Customs

SEOUL: The UN security council has blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies involved in smuggling oil and coal in...

BRUSSELS: Lawmakers voted yesterday to reduce the prince's 307,000-euro (USD 378,000) annual allowance by 15 per cent, a cut of...

WILLING TON: One of the North Island's most diverse boutique orchards  encompassing blueberry, raspberry and avocado production operations  has been...

CAPE TOWN: The South African Banking Association has warned of a possible banking crisis if land expropriation without compensation takes...

BANGKOK:  Thailand for 6,000 baht ($192) two years ago, Win from Myanmar worked as a fisherman until he lost his...

AMSTERDAM: The Netherland-based Enza Zaden Asia Holding Sdn Bhd has officially opened a headquarters and logistics hub at the Penang...

KABUL: One year after Afghanistan strengthened human trafficking laws to prohibit the use of boys for sexual entertainment, there is...

BAGHDAD: Iraq is reportedly ramping up efforts to expand its capacity to pump and export oil through building a processing...

DOHA: Qatar register an healthy about 2% year-on-year real growth in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017, according to the...

KUWAIT CITY:   Kuwait cannot impose tax on the remittances of expatriates because it is a member of international financial organizations...

KATHMANDU: Nepal's central bank has paved the way for domestic commercial banks to borrow from foreign banks and financial institutions...

LISBON: Portugal's industrial production growth moderated in February after accelerating in the previous month, figures from Statistics Portugal showed Thursday....

HELSINKI:  China's Shanying Paper will take a majority stake in a new Finnish company Boreal Bioref, securing financing for a...

HANOI: According to Manh Thi Tuyet Mai from the General Department of Taxation (GDT), the business code system does not...

WILLING TON: A 37-year-old businesswoman, Joyce Okafor, was arraigned yesterday before an Ogba Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defrauding a man...

ROME: Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan's Chief of Staff, has said that around 150 wealthy expats have taken up...

JAKARTA: Indonesia will unveil a simplified scheme for tax holidays next week and state oil firm PT Pertamina should be...

BERLIN: New German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has come under sharp criticism for nominating an all-male team of state secretaries....

CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s trade balance swung to a 431 million rand ($36.35 million) surplus in February following a 27...

TOKYO: With prices on the global market remaining at a low level, Japan is forecast to import 15.3 million tonnes...