BUDAPEST: The government has earmarked about 9 billion forints (EUR 28.7m) for infrastructure investments and economic development programmes in northeastern...

KABUL: Industrialists on Saturday criticized the 25 percent hike in electricity tariff and the Meshrano Jirga called the government’s decision...

DUBLIN: Revenue officers seized 20,000 smuggled cigarettes and seven kilograms of tobacco in Dundalk yesterday. Gardaí were called to the...

OTTAWA: Canadians are repeatedly asked to abandon paper forms and send their income-tax files electronically, but it turns out the...

GENEVA: Swiss milk producers say that milk prices are so low that farmers are no longer able to cover their...

COLOMBO: Prices of vehicles above 1000 cubic centimeter engine capacity will increase following the increase of the minimum unit tax...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong Customs yesterday detected a suspected smuggling case at Lok Ma Chau Control Point and seized 75...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's plan to track all credit card transactions in a bid to crack down on rampant tax evasion is...

SINGAPORE: Property company SingHaiyi Group has reported a 47.1 per cent drop in fourth-quarter earnings to $8.4 million. The decline...

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande said here the other day that a British exit from the EU would be bad...

MOSCOW: Russia is allocating 100 billion rubles ($1.5 billion) from the state budget for the construction of Il-114 and Il-96-400...

MOSCOW: State energy company Rosneft is to sign a new deal supplying Greece with oil, the RBC news outlet reported...

WASHINGTON: The total value of US landings fell by 1.3% in 2014 relative to 2013 fueled substantially by declines in...

BEIJING: Chinese banks saw their bad loans rise in the first quarter due to a slowing economy, but the risks...

BEIJING: China's central bank on Monday pumped more money into the market to ease a liquidity strain. The People's Bank...

PARAMARIBO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Friday an economic program for the South American country of Suriname to...

NEW YORK: It’s no surprise that one of the biggest mysteries of life happens to be life itself - how...

LONDON: Mars is as far away as humans have so far dreamed of going to, but the end goal is...

KENNIEDY SPACE CENTER: NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world’s...

SEOUL: Towards the end of March, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A9 Pro. A phablet boasting a 6-inch display, some of...