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MANILA: Philippine government crushed a parking lot full of luxury, sports and classic cars on Wednesday as part of its...

BANGKOK: Thailand aims to increase cross-border trading value by 15% this year to a record high of 1.5 trillion baht...

BRASILIA: Brazil's consulate in Auckland is telling its nationals that if they are caught smuggling drugs into New Zealand they...

CAPE TOWN: African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK) said it was launching a $1 billion financing programme with the Export Credit Insurance...

AMSTERDAM: Conor Ewood Atkinson, of Beech Grove, pleaded guilty to production of cocaine to the island, attempting to possess cocaine,...

KABUL: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between exporters of pine nuts and Azizi Bank on the occasion....

TAIPEI: Two Taiwanese men and an Indonesian migrant worker were arrested after being caught red-handed smuggling NT$2 million (US$68,450) worth...

DOHA: Qatar has launched a five-year development plan that focuses on making the Gulf nation more self-reliant in the face of a...

MUSCAT: The Customs at Muscat International Airport seized marijuana, psychotropic substances and narcotics tablets, in two drug busts. According to...

ATHENS: Greece's planned August exit from its third European Stability Mechanism bailout, has triggered investor optimism. Its July 2017 bond...

KIEV: Ukrainian government for the first time has resorted to a quantitative measure of Ukraine’s European integration progress, reporting about...

ROME: European shares dipped on Wednesday as strong results from Adidas and robust mining stocks were more than offset by...

OSLO: Business conditions deteriorated slightly in Norway’s western oil-producing regions in the last three months, but companies are becoming more...

KATHMANDU: Nepali embassy with the aim to bolster economic diplomacy, trade, investment, tourism and labour migration as a part of...

WARSAW:  Poland’s energy market regulator has increased gas prices for PGNiG retail clients by 1 percent but cuts in distribution...

JAKARTA: Business Recorder reported that Mongolian coal exports fell by a third in February, the country’s statistics bureau said that,...

COPENGAHEN: Denmark was found to have the heaviest burden of taxation as a percentage of the economy in a new...

TOKYO: Japan's ethylene production in February fell 10.7% from a month earlier to 522,000 mt, the Ministry of Economy, Trade...

Brussels: Belgium boasts that it is top of the European league for recycling packaging waste, with 87 per cent of plastic bottles,...

MANILA: For well-off people like politician Pantaleon Alvarez, getting out of a bad marriage in the Philippines is pricey but...