International Customs

MADRID: A Moroccan woman was caught trying to smuggle a 19-year-old man across the border with Spain curled up inside...

AMMAN: Members of the World Bank Group, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), are set to...

KABUL: Minister of Finance Eklil Hakimi and Kabul-based Italian Ambassador Roberto Canton signed Herat-Chasht e Sharif road construction contract in...

DUBLIN: Making it easier for eurozone banks to sell off problems loans would help unblock the banking system, according to...

DUBLIN: A big improvement in the amount of VAT the Irish government collected last month has helped assuage some fears...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s external trade deficit widened by 32.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) to US$ 1.05 billion last October, as a...

COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan rupee fell on Friday due to dollar demand from importers and banks as foreign investors continued...

HONG KONG: “It is awfully stressful,” says Martin Wu, a 21-year-old University of Hong Kong student and frustrated prospective home...

TAIPEI: Housing transactions in the Taiwan’s six municipalities soared 37.5 percent last month from a year earlier as buying interests...

MUSCAT: Better-than-expected job creation last month is supporting sentiment on this first Friday of February, and crude is being swept...

LISBON: Portugal's second city could became the latest municipality to impose a tax on overnight stays, after the current mayor...

ATHENS: Consumers are facing a vegetable shortage as poor weather across Europe is hitting supplies to super-markets. Vegetables such as...

KIEV: Sunseed meal exports from Ukraine totaled more than 463 KMT in December 2016. The pace of export sales somewhat...

ROME: Italian luxury fashion group Salvatore Ferragamo (SFER.MI) plans to grow revenue at twice the market rate from 2017-2020, backed...

COPENHAGEN: Ciber has agreed to sell its German and Danish businesses to German IT company Allgeier, advancing Ciber's efforts to...

OSLO: Sales of Norwegian salmon to Europe dropped in January, as higher prices start to hit consumers, according to a...

WELLINGTON: The Russian agricultural safety watchdog has announced that it will temporarily ban imports of beef from New Zealand from...

OTTAWA: The rich, as we well know, are different from you and me. They’ve got more money – plus a...

DUBAI: The GCC’s hospitality market is expected to grow at a 7.6 per cent CAGR from an estimated $25.4 billion...

DUBAI: Nine companies that provided outstanding work in the last nine months of 2016 were honored recently by the Dubai...