DOHA: The German engineering giant Siemens has appointed Alia Al Rifai as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company’s...

BERLIN: RWE has signed a seven and a half year deal with Qatargas for liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries into...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s exports fell a faster 11.2 percent to 945.4 million US dollars in March 2016 while imports fell...

GENEVA: Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is set to cut 350 IT jobs by the end of 2017, it has confirmed....

OTTAWA: One of Canada's most venerable religious charities has been told by the Canada Revenue Agency that it can no...

HONG KONG: The Secretary for Security, Mr Lai Tung-kwok, attended the third meeting in Shenzhen today with the Border Control...

SINGAPORE: Singapore mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal volumes grew 16 per cent in the first half of 2016 compared to...

LONDON: The United Kingdom is unlikely to try to lure investment by becoming a tax haven after it leaves the...

BEIJING: Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), a subsidiary of e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group, is forecast to record revenue of nearly US$9 billion...

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's finance minister says the oil-exporting country has posted a budget deficit of $18.2 billion for the most...

WASHINGTON: The Justice Department has begun scrutinizing thousands of U.S. taxpayers’ Swiss bank accounts to compare bank information with what...

ISLAMABAD: Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) has disbursed an amount of Rs. 16,706 million among 378,615 beneficiaries during the period...

MOSCOW: Russia's Gazprom gas giant has claimed it will return the highest dividends of all Russian public companies, the RBC...

JERUSALEM: A consortium led by US firm Noble Energy Inc has approved a US$265 million project to sink a new...

TAIPEI: Initial public offering (IPO) activity in Taiwan in the first half of this year was unfazed by the sluggish...

BEIJING: China's central bank pumped 840 billion yuan ($129 billion) into the market this week to ease liquidity. The People's...

BEIJING: China plans to invest more than 2.8 trillion yuan ($421.68 billion) into railway construction, building no less than 23,000...

PARIS: French car maker Renault will produce five new products in Iran in collaboration with two major Iranian companies, semi-official...

NEW DELHI: India will soon remove Cyprus from its tax blacklist as a non-cooperative jurisdiction for income tax purposes, local...

DUBLIN: Gardaí have seized cannabis herb and plants with an estimated street value of up to €290,000 in Co Laois,...