International Customs

SEOUL: South Korean government has decided to raise 7.4 percent tax to achieve revenue target for 2015 over last year's...

RIYADH: The Customs agents of Saudi Arabia have foiled an attempt to smuggle almost 3,000 live ‘ornamental’ birds from Bahrain,...

NILAI: Malaysian authorities foiled attempts by a syndicate to use Malaysia as a transit point to ship RM7.7mil (S$2.9 million)...

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s largest bank by assets, Bank Mandiri, is planning to seek about US$800 million in wholesale funding this year...

CANBERRA: Gerry Harvey has paid higher taxes than Apple in 2014 with $89 million compared to the Cupertino-based company’s $80...

ALOR SETAR: Malaysian police seized illegal smuggled firearms and arrested four people in a raid at a house here the...

KUCHING: Malaysia Marine Police Force seized 20,000 litres of diesel worth over RM200,000 during a routine check of a fishing...

TAIPEI: Taiwan collected NT$1.95 trillion (US$61.02 billion) in tax revenues in 2014, the highest ever in the country's history, according...

HONG KONG: The Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Mr Clement Cheung, said here the other day at the Customs and...

JAKARTA: Indonesia Customs Bureau of West Java and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) have arrested three persons, trying to smuggle...

KUWAIT: The Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company (QPIC) announced here the other day a net profit of KD 14.9 million ($50.8...

DURBAN: A South African police officer has been arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly trafficking drugs, officials said here the...

NICOSIA: In order to boost competitiveness and drive growth, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cyprus will now be...

VIENNA: France has been asked for the handing over of the tax data on clients linked with Austria after HSBC...

COPENHAGEN: As the policy makers try to flush out speculators still betting against krone’s peg to the euro, Denmark’s central...

COPENHAGEN: The world’s biggest container-shipping company in terms of capacity which is Denmark’s Maersk Lines is said to be in...

DENMARK: Denmark’s Nationalbanken has cut short its deposit interest rate after the European Central Bank announced incentives to cope up...

LISBON: Portugal’s property market continues to expand at double digit rates thanks to foreign buyers. More than one in five...

LISBON: A Beira-based Mozambican company Sociedade Malonda says it has reached an agreement with firms from Portugal under which it...

HELSINKI: Despite the economic recession, Finland’s exports in 2014 were almost on par with the previous year, 2013. Trade was...