World Business

BUDAPEST: Attila Schillinger, head of  professional association MSSz, said that domestic sales of Hungarian breweries increased by 2% reaching 5.8...

BUDAPEST:  The Central Statistics Office (KSH) revealed in a second reading of data that Hungary’s trade surplus revised upwards to...

Johannesburg: According to the currency trader at Rand Merchant Bank, the rand firmed to a new one-week high against the dollar...

LISBON: Portugal ‘s state owned water company EPAL stated that its net profit  increased around  €54 million in 2014.Following the...

AMMAN: The Department of Statistics stated that the Kingdom’s olive oil production increased by 20 per cent in 2014.The Department of...

ATHENS: Greece failed to win support from creditors for proposals to cut spending and receive €7bn in bailout funds in return....

DOHA: Qatar continues to generate trade surplus, which totalled QR73.5bn in Q4, 2014, although imports have risen and exports fallen,...

TAIPEI:  Taiwan's manufacturing turnover rose by an annual 3.5 percent in 2014 to the highest annual level ever, but investment...

JAKARTA: State-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II (AP II) said it had secured a loan of Rp 1.5 trillion...

HONG KONG: The Cathay Pacific Group reported an attributable profit of HK$3,150 million for 2014, compared to a profit of...

SINGAPORE: Main board-listed CNA Group Ltd said that its that its wholly-owned subsidiary, CNA-HTE Vietnam Co. Ltd. has signed a...

SINGAPORE: Shell Singapore announced that it has finished upgrading its ethylene cracker complex on Bukom Island, boosting production of ethylene...

WARSAW: A Poland based company Maple is aiming to invest around PLN 123.5m to expand the output capacity of its...

HELSINKI: Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency stated that Finland credit rating maintained “AA+”. According to S&P, the stable outlook...

ATHENS: Greece Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Panagiotis Lafazanis met with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak in Moscow...

WARSAW: Poland's purchasing managers' index PMI inched down by 0.3 points in March. The output and new orders rose at...

CANBERRA: Australia trade deficit rose 25 per cent in February as iron ore exports fell due to the Chinese lunar...

SEOUL: The contribution of exports to South Korea's economic growth fell to a five-year low as outbound shipments were hurt...

HANOI: Frozen fish fillet imports from Vietnam into Chile have increased in recent years. Vietnam is the leading supplier to...

Seoul: South Korea is expected to offer 33.1 trillion won (US$29.9 billion) in tax relief to support economic recovery this...