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TOKYO: Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is nearing a deal to buy General Electric Co.’s European private-equity finance business, according...

WELLINGTON: Columbia Marketing International looks forward to another season of big growth in its New Zealand apple program. Wenatchee, Wash.-based...

WELLINGTON: Fears of a downturn in the volume growth of world trade in 2015 appear to have been realised. The...

SYDNEY: Leading global producer Australia lowered its forecast for iron ore prices as Chinese steel production eases, but said export...

CANBERRA: Australia’s biggest exporter of livestock has broken its record for the most amount of cattle exported by the company...

SYDNEY: New Australian home sales have recorded their first monthly fall for 2015, with a drop in sales of detached...

LAS CRUCES: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Santa Teresa port of entry seized 529 pounds of...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico expects a finalized 12-nation Pacific trade deal to double the country's agricultural exports to Japan's mostly closed...

FRESNO: Jose Luis Montoya-Salazar, aka Rafael Salazar-Sanchez (Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, pleaded guilty to conspiring with Jimmy Gil, 35,...

NEW YORK: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it is amending its...

KINGSTON: Kingston Wharves Limited (KWL) upsized the limit of its expansion plans at the wharf from US$70 million to US$100...

KINGSTON: Telecoms provider Digicel says in the last 48 hours more than 1,200 mobile customers have ported in to its...

KINGSTON: Representatives of three Jamaican 'start-up' companies are currently receiving global business training in the Middle East to make their...

CAPE TOWN: Inflation expectations increased in the second quarter, which the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) is likely to...

CAPE TOWN: The total amount South African consumers owed creditors rose 1.4% to R1.6-trillion in the first quarter, data from...

CAPE TOWN: Slowdown in economic growth in the first quarter hit local industries hard, with official data showing on Tuesday...

ATHENS: Liannex Corporation (S) has placed a RM 228m ($60.4m) bid to acquire the non-oil and gas subsidiaries of Malaysian...

ATHENS: French container carrier CMA CGM is to secure $1bn in financing from the Export-Import Bank of China. The two...

ANDHRA: Arcelor Mittal is proposing to establish a steel plant in Dharwad for an investment of Rs 5,000 core and...

BENGALUR: President of the Bosch Group in India at the annual general meeting of the Bangalore Chamber of Industry &...