TOKYO: A toy helicopter created from cannibalised smartphones was among the main attractions at a huge toy show in Tokyo yesterday, where producers...
TOKYO: A toy helicopter created from cannibalised smartphones was among the main attractions at a huge toy show in Tokyo yesterday, where producers...
SINGAPORE: Singapore yesterday censured 20 banks, including top global lenders, over attempts to manipulate local benchmark rates — part of a widening rate-rigging...
TUNIS: Tunisia has won $1.2bn in funding from the Saudi-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB), aimed at backing industrial, agricultural and trade projects in...
LONDON/HAMBURG: Iran has ramped up its campaign to import wheat, buying more than 800,000 tonnes in two weeks in what some traders said...
A TV cameraman films a stock market indicator board in Tokyo yesterday. LONDON/TOKYO: Europe’s main stock markets rode out a roller-coaster session following...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange gained 189.47 points or 2.04 percent last week to close at 9,479.80 points. Trading value increased by 65.21 percent to...
DOHA: United Development Company (UDC), master developer of The Pearl-Qatar, announced yesterday its intention to sign a loan agreement facility with Qatar National...
DUBAI: Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised its assessment of Qatar’s stock market to overweight from neutral, and cut the United Arab Emirates...
LONDON: Global oil prices rebounded gently yesterday, reversing earlier losses on the back of improving economic data in top crude consumer the United...
Officials pose for a group picture. DOHA: Qatar German Pipes Company (QGPC), a subsidiary of Al Sulaiteen Group of Companies, for the first...
Heavy traffic slowly moves along a ring road surrounding Beijing. China is the biggest auto market by the number of vehicles sold and...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates is succeeding in strengthening its state finances by restraining spending, and managed last year to reduce the oil...
LONDON: Britain’s bid to exploit shale-gas deposits was boosted yesterday as utility Centrica Plc bought a quarter stake in a major gas-bearing formation...
NEW DELHI: Jet Airways yesterday appointed Gary Kenneth Toomey as its new chief executive, two months after a landmark deal in which Abu...
Representatives from Tasweeq, Qatar Shell and Qatar Petroleum celebrate the loading of first GTL-blended jet fuel cargo. DOHA: Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Company...
DOHA: Morgan Stanley Capital International’s (MSCI) decision to upgrade Qatar will render significant impetus to Qatar’s financial market. Welcoming the index compiler’s decision...
VIENNA: Austrian construction firm Porr announced yesterday it was to sign a ¤1.89bn ($2.5bn) contract to build one of Doha’s new metro lines,...
DUBAI: A statement on foreign exchange policy by Qatar’s Central Bank governor has struck a nerve in financial markets across the Gulf, reminding...