Business

Wartsila and N-KOM sign MoU 02 Mar 2015 - 01:43 am

Chandru Rajwani (centre right) and Seppo Hautajoki (centre left) at the MoU signing event. DOHA: Wartsila and Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) have...

Mannai working on two foreign acquisitions 02 Mar 2015 - 01:37 am

DUBAI: Qatari investment firm Mannai Corporation is working on two acquisitions as part of a drive to expand the proportion of its revenue...

Samsung unveils Galaxy S6, curved-edge variant 02 Mar 2015 - 01:34 am

Samsung President J K Shin presents the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday. BARCELONA: Samsung...

MPHC sees lower sales volume and earnings 02 Mar 2015 - 01:33 am

DOHA: Mesaieed Petroch-emical Holding Company (MPHC), a subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum, yesterday projected a lower sales volume and earnings for 2015. In a...

QE index falls 02 Mar 2015 - 01:31 am

Doha: Qatar Exchange index dropped 26.62 points when the bourse closed at 12,445.34 points. The transport index gained 0.41 percent (2,441.06 points), industries...

Decline in value of hydrocarbon exports squeezes trade surplus 02 Mar 2015 - 01:30 am

DOHA: Qatar’s trade surplus shrank by a sizeable 48.3 percent in January 2015 from a year ago as the value of its exports...

QPMC to highlight role in quality construction materials supply at GEF 02 Mar 2015 - 01:18 am

QPMC Chief Executive Officer Eisa Al Hammadi DOHA: Qatar Primary Materials Company (QPMC) will highlight its role in supplying quality aggregates and sand...

Mobile industry tiptoes towards 5G 02 Mar 2015 - 01:17 am

Huawei’s Consumer Business Group Chief Executive Officer Richard Yu presents his company’s new devices during a press conference in Barcelona yesterday. BARCELONA: Running...

Little spillover effects from uncertainties in Greece 02 Mar 2015 - 01:11 am

The Greek national flag flutters over a kiosk in Athens yesterday. Deal with European creditors on bailout plan cheers markets: QNB DOHA: QNB...

Sri Lanka cancels licences for foreign mining firms 01 Mar 2015 - 04:12 pm

Colombo--Sri Lanka's new president has cancelled mining licences issued by the previous government to 16 foreign companies to search for blue sapphires and...

Ireland looks forward to dairy boom once EU quotas go 01 Mar 2015 - 02:16 pm

Dublin---Four weeks from the lifting of European Union milk quotas, Ireland is looking forward to a radical shake-up of its farming sector that...

Crisis in rear-view mirror as Geneva motor show revs up 01 Mar 2015 - 01:27 pm

Geneva---The front end of McLaren's brand new P1 GTR seems to form a knowing smirk, a pointer perhaps towards the race-track ready motor...

Russian supermarkets freeze prices for inflation-weary shoppers 01 Mar 2015 - 01:11 pm

Moscow---Lots of things freeze in Russia's bitterly cold winters, but not usually food prices, yet that is exactly what top supermarket chains are...

China manufacturing shrinks again in February: govt 01 Mar 2015 - 12:39 pm

Beijing---China's manufacturing activity contracted for the second straight month in February, the government said Sunday, a day after the central bank announced an...

China manufacturing shrinks again in February: govt 01 Mar 2015 - 11:46 am

Beijing--China's manufacturing activity contracted for the second straight month in February, the government said Sunday, a day after the central bank announced an...

ECB to unveil details of QE programme, discuss Greece 01 Mar 2015 - 11:29 am

Frankfurt--The European Central Bank will unveil the details of the bond purchase programme it is embarking on later this month at its next...

India's budget shuns big-bang reforms, say experts 01 Mar 2015 - 10:58 am

New Delhi--The Indian government's budget was praised Sunday as balancing the need to boost business and help the poor, but some experts were...

India’s new gold scheme may hit Qatar market 01 Mar 2015 - 12:55 am

Gold bars on display. BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: India’s new “gold monetisation scheme”, announced by country’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his annual...