International Customs

SEOUL: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday asked concerned officials to discuss specifics on how best to use the US$12...

Indian’s polished diamond exports fall 10% to $3.37b

NEW DELHI: Indian's polished diamond exports for two months in the start of the financial year fell 10 per cent...

Japan’s All Nippon Airways develop US service with Houston

TOKYO: Japan’s All Nippon Airways, with new nonstop flights between Tokyo and Houston, now serves 10 North American cities. All...

Australia agrees fuel duty improvement in 2014 Budget

CANBERRA: The Australian Government has reached an agreement with the Opposition on the implementation of fuel excise duty hikes originally...

4 Dutch men charged after 270 kilos drugs found hidden in ambulance

BERLIN: Drug smugglers posed as paramedics and hid 270 kilos of cocaine, heroin an amphetamine in secret compartments of an...

SunEdison plans to instal 50 MW of rooftop PV in Australia

CANBERRA: US renewables developer SunEdison Inc (NYSE:SUNE) is planning to instal in Australia some 50 MW of rooftop photovoltaic (PV)...

American countries facing housing crisis

WASHINGTON: From Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine. From Jacksonville to Juneau. No matter where you look, there isn’t enough affordable...

Venezuela accuses Brazil senators seek to destabilize the country

CARACAS: Venezuela's foreign ministry has accused a group of Brazilian senators of seeking to destabilize the country during a brief...

US customs found cocaine labelled baking powder on flight from Guyana

NEW YORK: The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says an arriving passenger on a flight from Guyana...

Rare ancient Egyptian shroud fetches €374,000 at auction

HELSINKI: A rare 3,400-year-old Egyptian burial shroud fetched 374,000 euros ($426,000) at auction in Paris Thursday, on the latest leg...

Portugal makes early €1.8b payment to IMF

LISBON: Portugal has authorised the early re-payment of a further €1.8 billion to the International Monetary Fund, the Minister of...

Greece Gets ECB Lifeline While Tsipras Prepares for EU Summit

ATHENS: The European Central Bank extended Greece a financial lifeline ahead of a meeting of leaders on Monday that may...

Spanish win Lisbon transport tender

MADRID: The Spanish group Avanza has won the tender for the franchises to run the Lisbon bus and metro system,...

Zim’s Hwange to sell 50,000mt of coal to South Africa

JOHANNESBURG: Hwange Colliery Co. of Zimbabwe plans to export 50,000 metric tons of coal to neighboring South Africa this year...

Grimaldi in for up to $600m of new ships at Yangfan

HELSINKI: Grimaldi Group of Naples has just added a further 10 newbuildings to its already large orderbook of ships, Splash...

Wintershall offloads Norwegian assets for $602m

COPENHAGEN: Wintershall, a subsidiary of German chemicals giant BASF, is selling its assets in four non-operated fields Knarr (20%), Veslefrikk...

Star Bulk offloads ageing capsize star Mega 170,631 dwt

ATHENS: Drybulk giant Star Bulk Carriers has sold ageing capesize Star Mega (170,631 dwt, built 1994) to an unnamed party....

Nigeria Customs intercepts 8,000 bags of rice at Gbaji

ABUJA: The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ has intercepted about 8,000 bags of smuggled rice...

Osun, Oyo Customs generate N3bn, seize N113,450,176 goods

NAIROBI: The Area Customs Comptroller for Osun and Oyo Command, Mohammed Sulaiman Bawa friday revealed that the Command Revenue Figure...

Dutch to continue Iraq military mission