Workers at the Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) construction site in Yangon yesterday. Myanmar has approved more foreign direct investment in the...
Workers at the Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) construction site in Yangon yesterday. Myanmar has approved more foreign direct investment in the...
PARIS: France should aim for a 30 percent cut in fossil fuel use by 2030, President Francois Hollande said in a speech yesterday...
Washington: It’s $1bn in payouts that JPMorgan Chase & Co most likely wants to forget. In agreements with regulators totalling $1bn and made...
BASRA: Royal Dutch Shell has restarted production at Iraq’s Majnoon oil field, one of four giant fields core to the country’s plans to...
NEW YORK: Brent crude oil edged higher yesterday but was headed for its second weekly decline, down more than three percent after a...
MUMBAI: India’s new central bank governor surprised markets yesterday with a bold decision to hike interest rates on fears of rising inflation, triggering...
PARIS: Abu Dhabi-based Etihad airlines is focused on taking a stake in India’s Jet Airways, its chief executive said yesterday amid media speculation...
NEW DELHI: India’s imports of Iranian oil shot up in August to more than four times the volume taken in July as one...
MADRID: Spain’s trade deficit plunged by a further 53.5 percent in July as the recession-hit country rode a boom in exports, officials said...
A woman walks past a branch of Foxtons estate agents in central London yesterday. LONDON: British property agent Foxtons enjoyed a strong stock...
DOHA: Buying support from local retail and foreign institutional investors eased the selling pressure to lift the Qatar bourse benchmark index by 2.61...
Employees of BMW celebrate the production launch of ethe i3 electric car in Leipzig, Germany, yesterday. The small car with new carbon vehicle...
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve has decided against reducing its stimulus for the US economy, saying it will continue to buy $85bn a month...
ATHENS: Greece is not out of the woods yet and the fragile balance created as the coalition government tries to implement reforms to...
SEATTLE: A longer version of Boeing Co’s Dreamliner successfully completed its first flight on Tuesday, passing a key milestone for a plane expected...
NICOSIA: Confidence in Cyprus’s once-bloated banking sector is still running low despite a massive reorganisation imposed under a ¤10bn international bailout in March,...
European Central Bank (ECB) troika representative Rasmus Ruffer (third left), International Monetary Fund (IMF) troika representative Subir Lall (centre), International Monetary Fund Mission...
LONDON: The Bank of England moved further away from adding more stimulus to Britain’s economy this month and seemed less concerned by rising...
