International Customs

OSLO: The Norwegian krone rallied to an over two-month high against the euro and one-month high versus the yen following...

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum with Bangladesh to hire 120,000 workers in a year from it. The deal was...

SEOUL: South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) has confirmed that it missed its revenue target in 2014 by some 4.4...

AMSTERDAM: PPG Industries Inc. announced to expand its precipitated silica production capacity in Delfzijl, Netherlands by more than 15,000 tons...

THE HAGUE: A Dutch ship that sparked controversy because it was named after a Nazi will have its name changed,...

BERLIN: Cross-border lending is growing in the euro zone for the first time since the bloc’s financial crisis prompted banks...

JEDDAH: Saudi Supreme Court has executed a Syrian man, Abdullah Mohammed al-Ahmed, on the charge of smuggling a large quantity...

CANBERRA: The Australian Tax Office has said it has received “a number of discrepancies”  among hundreds of Swiss HSBC accounts...

Moscow: Hamburg authorities expected to decline in seaborne trade with Russia to accelerate this year as a lagging impact of the...

CANBERRA: India’s 7,500-km coastline is served by a dozen major ports, about 200 notified non-major ports in nine maritime States...

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s new 15 percent export tax on raw platinum, which was introduced earlier than expected, will cost Anglo American...

WELLINGTON: The big container ships that ply the world’s trade routes are growing ever larger, holding down the cost of...

TAIPEI: Initial results show that exports picked up by 3.4 percent to $25.12 billion (NT$795.87 billion) last month from a...

SINGAPORE: A drug-trafficking ring comprising Malaysians and Singaporeans has been crippled with the arrest of nine suspects during a joint...

MUSCAT: The agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, Hassad Food Co, acquired a significant minority equity interest in...

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s central bank governor, Fahad Al Mubarak, said that country should revise energy and water subsidies, as these...

JOHOR BAHARU: Malaysian police busted a drug trafficking syndicate comprising Malaysians and Singaporeans in a raid and seized drugs, cash...

NEW DELHI: Indian statistics ministry announced in a data released that Indian economy will accelerate 7.4 per cent this financial...

GEORGE TOWN: Malaysia Bukit Aman's Special Tactical Intelligence Narcotics Group (Sting) and Penang police seized more than 150kg of drugs...

NEW DEHLI: Indian currency opened at 62.15 as against the US dollar today, while last day it closed at 62.17...