International Customs

TAIPEI: Banks incorporated in Taiwan saw profits in their offshore banking units (OBU) fall year-on-year in January, while earnings in...

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan national arrested for allegedly smuggling gold into India at international airport here. The passenger, who hails...

JAKARTA: State-run telecommunications giant PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) will likely lower dividend payments by more than 40 percent this year...

DOHA: The size of Qatar’s insurance market is picking up, though slowly, and has hit an estimated $2bn. This represents...

KUWAIT CITY: Al-Mazaya Holding held its Ordinary General Assembly Meeting of 2014 here the other day at Al- Mazaya Tower...

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) held its annual General Assembly meeting here the other day at the bank's headquarters....

JOHANESSBURG: Burger King Worldwide plans to enter new African counties before the end of the year as it follows Yum!...

ABUJA: Retired workers of the Nigerian Customs Service derided the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) for its inability to pay their...

LAGOS: To bridge the demand-supply gap in the rice industry, Olam Nigeria Limited has unveiled its locally produced rice to...

AUSTIN: House lawmakers have tightened up language in their main bill to enhance law enforcement along the border, as supporters...

TEXAS: A federal judge has sentenced two former managers in Mexico's Gulf cartel to long prison sentences for their roles...

MEXICO CITY: The Central American children flooded into Texas in a way he had never seen in his three-decade career,...

NEW YORK: El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Indio Station rescued a distressed man who was lost...

ABUJA: The 6hours cargo clearance through the achievement of the Single Window environment, and also achieve the presidential declaration of...

LAGOS:  Nigeria will enforce the repatriation of dollar-proceeds from exports and is planning sanctions against those not complying, Central Bank...

ABUJA: Nigerians will soon begin to pay higher taxes in a move by government to shore up its revenue profile...

ABUJA: The value of external merchandise exported from Nigeria rose sharply in 2014 from 14.2 trillion in 2013 to 17.2...

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that the government will install 20,000 fingerprint scanners at grocery stores throughout the country....

NEW YORK:  US Customs and Border Patrol officers at the El Paso port of entry arrested 27-year-old Claudia Elizabeth Hernandez...

ABUJA: The launch of the World Customs Organisation’s (WCO) Mercator Programme in June 2014, the organisation has continued to advocate...