TAIPEI: Taiwan's customs officers seized 2,468.82 kilograms of illegal drugs in the first half of 2016, compared with 2,900.54 kg...

KABUL: The country witnessed a trade deficit with all the trading partners in the SAARC region except Afghanistan in fiscal...

DOHA: A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for attempting to smuggle some 22kg of hashish...

BUDAPEST: A 55-year-old Ukrainian national has been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling. The arrest comes after 33 illegal migrants...

KATHMANDU: The country witnessed a trade deficit with all the trading partners in the SAARC region except Afghanistan in fiscal...

HELSINKI: Output of total industries adjusted for working days went up by 4.3 per cent year-on-year in June 2016, according...

MUSCAT: Oman’s conventional banks have achieved a robust 8.6 per cent year-on-year growth in credit disbursements, which stood at OMR19.4...

PESHAWAR: The Ministry of State and Frontier Regions (Safron) has been urged to impose five per cent levy on imports...

WARSAW: Poland is the most attractive place to invest in the Central-and-Eastern European region and ranks fifth in Europe, a...

KIEV: The representative office of Azerbaijan’s state energy giant SOCAR in Ukraine has recently created a new company for the...

ISLAMABAD: Dr Naeem Khan, a Pakistan Customs Service officer of BS-20, has relinquished the charge of the post of Chief....

DUBAI: The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has concluded a summer training programme for 16 students from different UAE...

DUBAI: Waha Capital, a leading investment company based in Abu Dhabi, UAE has reported a net profit of Dh305.9 million...

BAKU: Azerbaijan plans to exempt the export of services from the value added tax (VAT), Shamil Arabov, chief of the...

TEHRAN: Iran is preparing to allow local companies to import iPhones for the first time to try to curb the...

ISLAMABAD: Sajjad Azhar, a BS-19 officer of Inland Revenue Service, has assumed the charge of the post of Secretary (Lit...

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti police seized two huge shipments of amphetamine tablets in a new spectacular operation by the local security...

ONTARIO: Mr. Steve Orr, Chief Executive Officer of Shawcor Ltd. remarked “As expected, Shawcor reported a significant loss in the...

ANKARA: Turkey has benefited from the decline in oil prices over the past three years, managing to save $50 billion...

SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecom (Singtel) on Thursday reported a slight annual increase in its first quarter net profit, boosted by robust...