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COPENHAGEN: Perhaps, surprisingly, it's a development that Denmark's financial watchdog says it welcomes. The value of Danish stocks being shorted...

BERLIN: The latest trade figures released by the German Federal Statistics Office, Destatis, on Friday come a day after another...

TOKYO:  Japan’s National Tax Agency chief, under fire for remarks about a suspected cronyism scandal, quit on Friday, but his...

SEOUL: Korea’s economy is expected to maintain its current recovery pace going forward on the back of brisk exports, a...

MANILA: Mindanao, the relatively poor and conflict-prone island in the southern Philippines, will be the "centerpiece" of President Rodrigo Duterte's administration...

CAPE TOWN: National Budget indicating an impact on long-term savings  positive or negative  a National Treasury regulation that kicked in...

BANGKOK: Bank of Thailand announced the two bodies will establish a framework for cooperation to promote use of local currencies...

HANOI: Interest in Vietnam among Japanese companies continues to grow, boosting the Southeast Asian country to the second spot, right...

AMSTERDAM: A Lehigh Acres man was arrested after authorities connected him to a package shipped from the Netherlands that was allegedly...

ROME:  Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday the European Union would decide at its next meeting on a...

ATHENS: Greece ceased VAT privileges on 27 of its islands. Previously, they enjoyed VAT rates that were 3% lower than...

KIEV: Ukraine is to seize assets belonging to Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom in a deepening legal dispute that has stoked fears...

HANOI: Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance is planning to increase the environmental protection taxes on oil and petroleum products to the...

AMMAN: Jordan, was officially opened on Thursday in the presence of water and irrigation minister Ali Al-Ghezawi and the Italian...

BAGHDAD: Hassan, who has been a coppersmith for 30 years, exercises a profession that dates to the Abbasid period of the 10th century,...

KUWAIT CITY:  Kuwait hosted women’s empowerment and equal opportunities Initiative, in partnership with the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council...

MUSCAT: Access to a debt market teeming with yield-hungry investors is helping some cash-strapped nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council...

WARSAW: Poland has become the fourth country to ratify the BEPS multilateral instrument, the OECD has announced on its website....

LISBON: Portugal off the list of member states with excessive economic imbalances, stating that it now has only “imbalances”. The...

ATHENS: Greece  the sixth most visited country by tourists in the European Union, can bring the travel industry to a...