MADRID: The EU has almost doubled its watermelon imports over the last decade. Prices have also increased, from €0.387/kilo 10...

BERLIN: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday warned the financial sector that it had a responsibility to prevent speculation and...

WILLING TON: The cost for travellers to enter New Zealand is set to drop as plans to decrease the border travel levy...

SEOUL: The deepening selloff in cryptocurrencies has just claimed another victim: Bitcoin’s kimchi premium Prices for the virtual currency in...

ZURICH: The Tax Justice Network released their Financial Secrecy Index on Tuesday, ranking Switzerland and the United States as the top two...

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee Friday gained value against dollar both in open market and interbank. As per the local money...

MIRPUR (AJK): The imposition of property tax in Azad Jammu and Kashmir has been challenged in AJK High Court. Single-bench...

COLOMBO: The world economy appears to be booming – in its latest World Economic Outlook Update, published on January 22,...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Tariq Mahmood Pasha informed Sub-Committee of Senate  Standing Committee on Finance, and Revenue...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue Friday transferred/posted 35 Pakistan Customs Service officers of BS 17-19 with immediate effect and...

TEHRAN: The value of non-oil exports of Iran through the provincial customs checkpoints of Mazandaran has surpassed $329 million over...

ISLAMABAD: Samaira Nazir has declared her dual nationality on demand of Establishment Division. She declared in her proforma: “It is...

TEHRAN: Iran’s oil exports to Japan (including gas condensates) in December 2017 decreased by 11.2 percent year-on-year and reached ‎‎6.781‎‎‎...

KIEV: Ukraine continues stepping up export supplies of corn starch. The pace of Ukrainian corn starch exports still quickened in...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s state grains agency SAGO returned to the wheat market Thursday, as it sought to take advantage of...

VICTORIA CITY: Pre tax profits at Hong Kong banks were 15.8 per cent higher in 2017, as the pace of...

LAHORE: IMF resident representative Tokhir Mirzoe along with senior economist Teresa Daban Sanchez paid a courtesy visit to PRA Headquarters...

CANBERRA: Turnbull government will spend on environment and biodiversity programs this financial year, an analysis has found. Coalmining companies alone...

OTTAWA: Canada’s overwhelming dependence on one market for its oil and gas exports comes with a serious price tag. Canadian...

WASHINGTON: U.S. tax changes would help profit growth outstrip sales in 2018, while new drugs for multiple sclerosis and cancer...