Business

DOHA: RasGas Company Ltd (RasGas) is on a recruitment drive in the UK looking for young and talented Qatari students who would like...

London: Freight shipping prices have plummeted to a historic low, fuelled by a long-standing problem of too many ships and lower demand from...

DOHA: Ahli United Bank (AUB) reported a record net profit attributable to its equity shareholders of $482.5m for the year 2014, a growth...

DOHA: Widam Food Company (previously Mawashi)  recorded a net profit of QR62.2m for full-year 2014, compared to QR54.9m a year ago. The earnings...

Doha: Air Arabia has announced Kathmandu as the latest destination to be served from the recently launched Ras Al Khaimah hub. The carrier...

HONG KONG: China’s world-best stock market rally made January the busiest month for IPOs in a year. It also created a bundle of...

  Buenos Aires--Argentina's tax authority said Sunday it is seeking an international arrest warrant for an investment advisor suspected of helping Argentines hide money...

  Mogadishu---Mohammed Adan's four school-age children are the latest victims of new international banking regulations aimed at terrorists, but hitting ordinary Somalis hard. Adan's...

  Madrid---Spanish five-star hotels are serving up white rice for breakfast as Spain offers quicker visas and seeks more direct flights from China to...

    Caracas---With long, everyday waits in line to buy milk or toilet paper, Venezuela's economic crisis is proving ever more painful, as President Nicolas...

New York---Is the future of the US car industry in Silicon Valley? After Tesla and Google, Apple appears to be readying for a...

      Saint Petersburg---When heavy snowfall hit Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg last month it was nothing unusual, but city officials were overwhelmed and...

    Seoul---Korean Air and European aerospace giant Airbus have signed an agreement to jointly bid for an $8-billion fighter jet project, a company spokesman...

Abdulahmeed Alyousef (left) and Saud Aldolaimi. BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: A newly-developed real estate-based smart technology “Rinfo”, launched by the Qatar Business Incubation...

DOHA: Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company (MPHC), a subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum partially floated on the Qatar Exchange and one of the region’s premier...

DOHA: Gulf International Services (GIS), the largest service group in Qatar with interests in a broad cross-section of industries, issued a statement yesterday...

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives at the parliament building with his wife Danae Stratou ahead of a cabinet meeting in Athens, yesterday....

DOHA: Qatar banks’ loan book contracted by 1.4 percent in January 2015 compared to the month of December 2014. Deposits declined by 2.2...