World Business

NAIROBI: Kenya has raised its tax revenue forecast for the financial year ending in June 2017 by 8.7 percent as...

LONDON: Egyptian chocolate spread maker Swifax has doubled its sales and is struggling to keep up with demand since the...

WASHINGTON: Despite its estimated 802 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of unproved, technically recoverable shale gas resources, Argentina’s dry natural gas...

WASHINGTON: Unemployment in the Bay of Plenty has dropped sharply, bucking the national trend. The Bay's unemployment rate is now...

ABUJA: Nigeria's anti-corruption agency says agents seized nearly $10 million from a safe in a slum building belonging to a...

CHENNAI: VirtusaPolaris reported revenues for the Oct - Dec 16 quarter at $217.2 million, an increase of 3.4% sequentially and...

WASHINGTON: In January, Research & Planning reported that Wyoming’s unemployment rate decreased to 4.8 percent in December. After peaking at...

ABUJA: The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) has  approved the promotion of 1,561 Junior Officers to various...

ABUJA: The Zonal Coordinator, Zone 'A' of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Assistant Comptroller-General Monday Abueh, has said that the...

WASHINGTON: The Greek unemployment rate eased to 23 pct of the workforce in November 2016, from 24.5 pct in November...

WASHINGTON: Consumer prices in greater Buenos Aires rose 1.3 percent in January over the previous month, Argentina's official Indec statistics...

ABUJA: Nigeria will increase custom duties for tomato imports and waive tariffs for some farming equipment to stimulate local production...

WASHINGTON: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$22.69 billion (US$713 million) for January 2017, down 10.2% sequentially...

WASHINGTON: Cambodia’s total exports to the United States declined last year compared with 2015, due to uncertainties in the US...

WASHINGTON: The global unemployment rate is expected to rise modestly from 5.7 to 5.8 per cent in 2017 representing an...

WASHINGTON: According to some US importers, such as Andy Economou, the COO of TastyFruitti International, Chilean pear imports were doing...

WASHINGTON: Transcend Information has reported consolidated revenues of NT$679 million (US$21.88 million) for January, down 40.7% from the previous month...

LONDON: Winbond Electronics' consolidated revenues fell about 2% sequentially and 1% on year to NT$3.42 billion (US$110 million) in January...

WASHINGTON: The Customs department probing the operation of a Muvattupuzha-based gold smuggling syndicate has imposed a fine of 90 crore...

KAMPALA: Uganda's Annual Inflation rose to 5.9% in January 2017 as compared to the 5.7% recorded during the year ended...