International Customs

MANILA: More than a hundred rice traders in the Philippines have applied for permits to import a total of 750,150...

AMSTERDAM: Cocaine worth millions of pounds was found on a yacht in the South West after the skipper jumped to...

BRASÍLIA: Brazil’s inflation is expected to have decelerated in September with transportation inflation falling and food inflation peaking, said Societe...

DHAKA: Tea prices in Bangladesh fell about 1 percent at the weekly auction on Tuesday as the volumes on offer...

KATHMANDU: Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), the state-owned petroleum monopoly, has asked Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to revise surcharges being imposed...

AMMAN: His Majesty King Abdullah, accompanied by Her Majesty Queen Rania, on Wednesday received Albanian President Bujar Nishani at Al...

HELSINKI: Finland may dispatch patrol vessel Merikarhu to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Frontex opera-tion at the beginning of...

WARSAW: The Polish central bank's Monetary Policy Council left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday. According to the council, the rates...

LISBON: Portuguese banks will next year be required to report their offshore operations worth more than €15,000, according to a...

MUSCAT: Major Omani firms that constitute MSM 30 Index are expected to post a growth in both net earnings and...

LONDON: Misys, the UK financial-software maker owned by Vista Equity Partners, plans to sell about 500 million pounds ($635 million)...

DUBAI: Dubai Airports and its partners have raised AED 1.25 million (approximately US$ 340,600) for Orbis, the international eye care...

WASHINGTON: Fuel ethanol exports by the United States totaled 77.9 million gallons in August, up 12% from July, according to...

KIEV: The international reserves of Ukraine on October 1, 2016 amounted to $15.589 billion, having increased in September by 10.5%,...

ROME: The Bank of Italy said on Wednesday it had ordered Latvian lender AS PrivatBank to shut down its Italian...

WASHINGTON: California exports rallied strongly in August, posting the first year-over-year monthly gain since April 2015. California businesses shipped merchandise...

HANOI: Việt Nam’s economic growth this year is expected to hit 6 per cent, lower than was forecast in June,...

CANBERRA: Coal exports from the Hay Point, Dalrymple Bay and Abbot Point terminals in the Australian state of Queensland rose...

WELLINGTON: The New Zealand dollar held near a two-month low against the greenback as recent data from the world's biggest...

CANBERRA: An Australian parliamentary inquiry into the nation's Big Four banks this week is likely to usher in a slew...