International Customs

TUCSON: Border officers have seized more methamphetamine in Arizona this fiscal year than they did the entire previous year, continuing...

BRASILIA: Police in Brazil have uncovered a multi-million pound scheme to illegally mine and export Paraiba tourmaline, one of the...

JAKARTA: The economic slowdown has begun to take its toll on the profitability of banks as the decline in lending...

KUWAIT CITY: France is on the verge of finalising a contract worth about 1bn euros ($1.1bn) for the sale of...

BRASILIA: Amid a conflict with fruit and vegetable producers in the Southern provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, the Brazilian...

BRASILIA: Brazil's planned port privatisation has been delayed futher and is now postponed until the first half of 2016. Brazil’s...

DOHA: Save as PDF Add to Reading List Higher education expenses and rents combined with increasing transportation costs led Qatar's...

TAIPEI:The revenue of Taiwan's manufacturers in the first quarter of 2015 stood at 6.38 trillion New Taiwan dollars, up 1.3...

SAO PAULO: The Brazil Central Bank’s Economic Activity Indicator (IBC-Br) declined -0.8% month-on-month (mom) in April for -3.1% year-on-year (yoy)....

MEXICO CITY: Federal police apprehended nine members of a kidnapping and extortion ring in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico’s...

BOGOTA: Colombia statistics institute DANE reported that domestic demand rose 0.6% quarter-on-quarter (qoq) during the first quarter of 2015 (seasonally...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong customs officers arrested a truck driver at Lok Ma Chau control point after finding suspected illicit...

BOGOTA: The Colombian government on the weekend sent a protest note to Caracas regarding the decree signed by Venezuelan President...

HANOI: After 12 years of negotiations, the first shipments of Vietnamese litchi have been present in Australia, said Vietnam’s Ministry...

HANOI: Vietnam’s pangasius export turnover this year looks set to be $1.7 billion, a 4% year-on-year drop, due to difficulties...

CARACAS: Venezuela's weekly oil basket price slipped slightly for a second week as oil prices churned directionlessly in international markets...

NEW DELHI: A Kyrgyzstan national has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold jewellery, worth about...

TOKYO: Japan says it plans to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic later in 2015 even though the International Whaling...

ABUJA: Four Nigerian nationals and a New Zealander have received jail terms for their involvement in an international drug smuggling...

CAIRO: Egypt's non-petroleum exports amounted to $8bn in May 2015, compared to $10bn in the same period last year, with...