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BERN: The recruitment agency Randstad, announced the 10 winners of its 2015 best-Swiss-employer awards. Nine of the top ten were...

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s state-owned Pertamina is expected to import around 11 million barrels of gasoline in April, up 2.15 million barrels...

TOKYO: Japan started providing up to Yen 877.8 billion ($7.98 billion) shipping insurance cover for tankers carrying Iranian crude for...

NEW DELHI: The landmark interim nuclear deal between Iran and permanent members of the UN Security Council apart from Germany...

New Delhi: The government raised import tariff value on gold to $385 per 10 grams and silver to $543 per...

BERN: The United States fined $211 million (CHF203 million) a Swiss based BSI bank for aiding and abetting tax cheats....

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will meet with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in June, the White House announced. Queen...

AMSTERDAM: Royal Philips NV agreed to sell a majority stake in its Lumileds lighting components unit to a group of...

HANOI: The direct flight from Kenya to Vietnam was announced by Kenya Airways. This is the first airline to open...

BRUSSELS: The European Union is weighing a major investigation into how Internet platforms like Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. operate...

HELSINKI: Finland’s Rovio Entertainment, the publisher of the Angry Birds mobile games, reported that its revenues shrank 9 percent to...

BERLIN: A year ago, Russia was still regarded by German car manufacturers as a market with a great future. Speaking...

CAPE TOWN: The challenges are increasingly common ones for Africa’s largest companies, serving customers embattled by insecurity and economic turmoil....

BERLIN: German companies are hoping to win billions of euros worth of business from Iran after world powers reached a...

NEW DELHI: The Government threatens to publish 30 names in official gazette after Switzerland pledges to help tax officials in India....

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), the largest bank in Kuwait (rated Aa3 by Moody’s, A+ by S&P and AA-...

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s revenues dropped by one fifth in the first 11 months of the fiscal year due to the decline...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Science Minister Steven Joyce has welcomed the trend of businesses in New Zealand investing more in research...

PUTRAJAYA: Officials from the Customs Department were bombarded with nearly 3,000 calls to its GST hotline on the first day...

TOKYO: Japanese government decided whether to join a planned Chinese-led investment bank by late June if governance standards and other...