International Customs

TAIPEI:  Banana growers in Yunlin County, Taiwan shipped the year’s first batch of special “Oolong Bananas” headed for the Japanese...

ROME:  Italian textile machinery grew by 29 per cent in the final quarter of 2017, driven by significant increases in...

HELSINKI:  Finland at the moment (being expected to end by January 2019), this does not say much about what Finns...

KHAT MANDU: Nepal is taking steps towards agricultural diversification and commercialization which has shown hopes for improvement of country’s economy,...

MADRID: In 2015, the IMF lead its report on Spain with this warning: “in spite of the significant improvements since...

KIEV: Ukraine in 2017 imported 80,500 new cars, from which Hr 15.8 billion of customs fees were paid, whereas in...

ATHENS: Greece has completed the benchmark sale of a seven-year bond, sending markets the strongest signal yet that the country...

MUSCAT: Tax on tobacco will soon be doubled in Oman, senior officials at the Ministry of Health announced on Sunday....

BANGKOK:  Thai commercial banks’ loans may increase 6-8 percent this year after rising 4.4 percent in 2017, reflecting the improving...

MANILA:  The Philippines will buy 250,000 tonnes of rice via an open international tender and delivery will be in June,...

CAPE TOWN: Fin24 reported that global drive towards lower carbon emissions and regulations addressing climate change are among the challenges...

BERLIN: The Germans, for their part, had learned from the crash of the Weimar Republic into National Socialism and the...

TOKYO: Power generation amounts (see below) created through renewable energy sources are growing rapidly around the world, largely due to...

BRASILIA: Amazon in Latin America's largest economy, where it currently relies on third parties to ship their own goods sold...

AMMAN:  Jordan has ranked first in the Middle East and North Africa in renewable and clean energy growth, according to...

MUMBAI: The argument is that income that an asset generates should be booked to tax, irrespective of whether it is...

HANOI: Vietnamese company is no longer seeking US financial support to build a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam, bringing to...

SEOUL: South Korea is going to sign a currency swap deal with Switzerland, all eyes are on whether the country...

JAKARTA: The Indonesian Navy has finally nabbed MV Sunrise Glory and four Taiwanese crew members for smuggling one ton of...

HANOI: Though Việt Nam remains a big importer of textile feedstock and accessories from China, its rising exports to China...