MANILA: Seven banks have heeded the call of the Bureau of Customs to extend operating hours and facilitate payment clearance...

SEOUL: South Korean rice hit shelves in Beijing for the first time in history on Thursday to meet rising Chinese...

LAHORE: Federal Board of Revenue’s Directorate General of Training & Research Lahore has arranged a workshop on audit techniques for...

COPENHAGEN: Denmark's second and third largest banks are among the institutions accused of helping customers avoid taxes. Nordea and Jyske...

BANGKOK: Slower economic recovery and shrinking exports are the main reasons quoted by the BoT for the lower adjustment, as...

SAO PAULO: New-vehicles sales, production and exports in Brazil dropped in March and also in the first quarter of this...

OSLO: Norwegian bank DNB, the nation’s largest, said it shouldn’t have helped its customers set up businesses in tax havens....

RABAT: Saudi Arabia and Morocco have signed an aid agreement worth $230 million, the Moroccan finance ministry said on Wednesday,...

MADRID: Spain's Santander, the eurozone's biggest bank, said Wednesday during a meeting with unions that it plans to slash up...

BUDAPEST: Hungary last week paid back the final 1.5 billion euro instalment of a loan it took up from the...

JOHANNESBURG: South African drugmaker Adcock Ingram said on Wednesday it sold its Indian unit for 336 million rand ($22 million)...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Police have recovered more than 500 kilograms of hashish from a drug smuggler in the Durbaba district of...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico's auto production fell 11 percent in March compared with the same month last year and exports plunged...

TAIPEI: Foreign-exchange reserves in the nation reached US$431.60 billion at the end of last month, an increase of US$2.78 billion...

WASHINGTON: The latest data from the EU milk market observatory shows strong export growth for EU butter and cheese to...

DOHA: QNB Group, the largest lender in the Middle East and Africa, has posted a net profit of QR2.9bn ($787m)...

TEHRAN: Iran’s media reported on Thursday that the country’s exports to the United States increased six times over a period...

KUWAIT: Sources at Kuwait airport said a ruling family member arrived from a Gulf country and entered the VIP hall...

DUBAI: Set for completion by 2020, the new Doha port will propel the shipping sector forward, double GDP, and consolidate...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left for Beijing yesterday to negotiate a US $ 125 million penalty that...