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MANILA: High-profile Bilibid inmates detained at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) headquarters in Manila are apparently more than willing...

TAIPEI: Nan Shan Life Insurance Co Ltd yesterday said its board had approved a plan to buy into AIG Taiwan...

ROME: European stocks were broadly lower on Friday, as renewed concerns over a potential Greek default weighed after the International...

COLOMBO: Hatton National Bank PLC (HNB), the premier private sector commercial bank in Sri Lanka, has introduced ‘7 Day Banking’...

DOHA: Qatar is the Middle East’s leading Internet economy said a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks jumped 1.39 per cent following a second successive rally on Wall Street and in line...

SINGAPORE: Singapore-based private equity firm Quadria Capital has raised US$304 million for healthcare investments in Asia. It announced on Tuesday...

SYDNEY: Australian stocks shrugged off a positive lead from Wall Street to close 0.2% lower Friday after softer oil and...

SINGAPORE: Oriental University City Holdings, a subsidiary of main-board listed Raffles Education Corp, has announced an investment of A$5.2 million...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's 1MDB said on Friday it will start looking for suitors to invest in Bandar Malaysia - one...

ROME: UnipolSai SpA, Italy’s second-largest insurer, agreed to buy the hotel businesses of Una SpA for 287 million euros ($315...

NEW YORK: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Newark Liberty International Airport caught a passenger allegedly attempting to smuggle...

SUCRE: Illegal mining in the border with Bolivia is reaching staggering numbers, the Peruvian high commissioner on mining, Antonio Fernandez,...

TOKYO: Japanese stocks rose, paring the Topix index’s first back-to-back weekly drop since January, after the yen weakened against the...

CHRIST CHURCH: Ten people have been arrested and several clan labs uncovered in a months-long operation targeting the sale and...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has transferred/posted three Pakistan Customs Service officers of BS-21 with immediate effect. According to...

BEIJING: China stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Electricity...

ISLAMABAD: Mansoor Ahmad Bajwa, an Inland Revenue Service officer of BS-21, presently posted as Chief Commissioner-IR, Regional Tax Office, Gujranwala,...

BEIJING: Chinese banks extended more loans last month, and the growth of money supply accelerated after the central bank eased...

BEIJING: Chinese investors have become the second largest foreign players in French vineyards, just after Britain, according to a study...