International Customs

ROME: Italian police arrested four people on Tuesday on suspicion of smuggling arms, including helicopters and surface-to-air missiles, into Libya...

JAKARTA: The world’s most populous Islamic country, Indonesia, in its quest to broaden the Islamic economy in the country, is...

WELLINGTON: Wellington Drive Technologies is pleased to update earlier guidance on its 2016 trading performance, with significant improvement on the...

TOKYO: Excise tax collections from tobacco products fell by 9 percent to P91.6 billion in 2016 from P99.5 billion in...

NEW DELHI: Customs department at the Foreign Post Office in Delhi seized 1,810 grams of narcotics, concealed in 20 separate...

BANGKOK: Thailand’s low-cost airlines are increasing fares on domestic routes in a respond to a massive increase in excise tax...

WASHINGTON: While manufacturers across the U.S. are generally optimistic about revenues for 2017, small manufacturers are far more optimistic than...

WASHINGTON: Hassan Etemadi learned English from watching American movies in his rural village of Ghazni, Afghanistan. When U.S. troops arrived...

AMSTERDAM: Royal Dutch Shell (LSE: 0LN9.L - news) is to offload its holdings in 10 North Sea oil fields in...

MANILA: Excise tax collection from cigarettes and other tobacco products recorded a decrease in 2016 due to lower consumption, as...

SEOUL: The shipbuilding industry is forecast to lose 27,000 jobs in the first half of this year from a year...

MUSCAT: Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas on Tuesday signed an exploration and production sharing agreement with Oman Oil Company...

LONDON: U.K. manufacturing activity grew strongly in January, slowing only slightly from a 2 1/2-year high in December, a survey...

ANKARA: Turkey imported 30.42 million mt of bituminous thermal coal in 2016, rising 9% year on year to the highest...

ANKARA: Turkey's energy imports fell by 28.2 percent in 2016 compared to 2015, according to TurkStat data Tuesday. The data...

ANKARA: Egyptian and Turkish business forum has called on the two countries to boost economic. The relationship have been strained...

TEHRAN: Use of natural gas for producing goods/services with higher value added such as production of electricity and petrochemicals makes...

TEHRAN: The National Development Fund of Iran, the country's sovereign fund, announced that it plans to make investments in international...

CAIRO: A delegation from the Petroleum Ministry will visit Iraq in February to finalize the draft agreement to import crude...

MOSCOW: Big international banks provide the frontline troops in the battle against financial crime, or so their bosses like to...