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Tibet’s foreign trade down 60% in 2015

BEIJING: Tibet's foreign trade mainly with Nepal and India through the Nathula border point fell by nearly 60 per cent...

Veeco revenues increase in FY2015

PLAINVIEW: Process equipment developer Veeco Instruments Inc. has announced a 2015 revenue increase of 21 percent to $477 million from...

Inflation rate down to 0.10% in Jan

WASHINGTON: The inflation rate of the Maldives decreased to 0.10 percent last January, statistics show. According to the statistics of...

Bolivia says inflation rate quickens by 0.58% in Feb

LONDON: Consumer prices in Bolivia rose by 0.58 percent in February, pushing the year-on-year inflation rate to 2.64 percent, government...

Ethiopian inflation falls to 8.7% in Feb

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's inflation fell to 8.7 percent year-on-year in February from 10.2 percent in the previous month, the statistics...

Djibouti launches new project for export of Ethiopian gas

WASHINGTON: President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti on Thursday laid the foundation stone for a new mega-gas project for the...

Ohio unemployment rate increases to 4.9%

LONDON: Ohio's unemployment rate inched higher to 4.9 percent in January, according to state figures release this morning. The rate...

WPP PR revenues up 3% in 2015

LONDON: WPP has reported that its PR and public affairs firms, which include Burson-Marstelller, H+K Strategies, Ogilvy PR and Cohn...

Mexico’s inflation likely to be stable in 2016

WASHINGTON: The Bank of Mexico has confirmed that its recent rise in the interest rate was a one-off move and...

Inflation slows to 0.9% in February

MANILA: Inflation fell to 0.9 percent in February from 1.3 percent in January, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)...

Irish milk imports increases 50% in 5 years

WASHINGTON: The volumes of milk moving across the border has increased massively in recent years with milk imports from Northern...

Customs Agency launches new website

03/03/2016

LONDON: Customs Director Fernando Fernandez on Tuesday launched a new website, developed under best national and international commercial practices, with...

Cambodia’s oil imports increase 64% in 2015

03/03/2016

WASHINGTON: Cambodia imported 2.55 million tons of petroleum in 2015, up 64 percent from 1.55 million tons in the year...

First US chicken imports hit SA

03/03/2016

JOHANNESBURG: United States chicken imports hit South African supermarket shelves on Tuesday for the first time in 15-years, ending a...

Gold extends gains

LONDON: Gold edged up, building on its biggest monthly gain in four years, as concerns over the global economy after...

Kazakhstan sharply reduces exports in 2015

AZERBAIJAN: Exports of goods for the nine months of 2015 decreased by 42.4 percent - to $35.7 billion in Kazakhstan,...

Malawi sets to import 50 000 tons of maize from Tanzania

LILONGWE: Malawi is set to import 50 000 tonnes of maize from Tanzania to avert hunger, following a drought that...

Algiers imports of pharmaceutical products decline in 2016

ALGIERS: Imports of pharmaceutical products reached $127.92 million in January 2016 against $133.78 million in January 2015, drop by 4.38%,...

Global exports fall 11.3%, imports 13% in 2015

WASHINGTON: The Organisation for Economic and Cooperation Development (OECD) announced Tuesday that global trade had slowed down significantly in 2015,...

Belarus reduces oil export duties