ABU DHABI: A long-awaited federal credit bureau will start operating in the United Arab Emirates this quarter, allowing banks to check a customer's...
ABU DHABI: A long-awaited federal credit bureau will start operating in the United Arab Emirates this quarter, allowing banks to check a customer's...
ISLAMABAD: A special court set up to try Pakistan's former ruler Pervez Musharraf for treason adjourned Tuesday to consider a medical report on...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka said Tuesday it had raised $1 billion through a sovereign bond issue despite a warning by the International Monetary Fund...
LONDON: British no-frills airline Easyjet on Tuesday revealed that passenger numbers climbed by 3.5 percent in December to reach 4.5 million. Easyjet added...
ALGIERS: Algerian national flag carrier Air Algerie has signed agreements with three aircraft manufacturers, Boeing of the United States, the European aerospace consortium...
SAN FRANCISCO: Google joined Monday with automakers General Motors, Audi, Honda and Hyundai in a new partnership to bring the Android mobile system...
DOHA: Real estate transactions between December 29 and January 2 for the real estate sales contracts registered at the Ministry of justice are...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Tuesday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...
ISTANBUL: Bahrain-based Investcorp said on Tuesday it had acquired a significant minority stake in a Turkish producer of fresh cut and packaged processed...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia retailer Jarir Marketing posted a 16 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit on Tuesday, slightly above estimates as sales of...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's international Islamic banking assets are expected to grow to more than US$390 billion or about RM1.27 trillion by 2018 from...
TOKYO: More than 300 people across Japan have fallen ill after eating frozen food products contaminated with pesticide, reports said Tuesday. Shoppers have...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares closed down 0.59 percent Tuesday, extending the previous day's heavy fall, and following losses on Wall Street. The benchmark Nikkei-225...
SINGAPORE: Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) surprised traders last week with a second public tender in two months, offering up to 50,000...
SEOUL: South Korea's Samsung said Tuesday it expected a steep drop in its operating profit for the fourth quarter of 2013, as slowing...
NEW YORK: Boeing and flydubai announced Monday a firm order for 75 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 11 Next-Generation 737-800s, the US company's...
SINGAPORE: Hundreds of Singapore Airlines passengers left stranded in Azerbaijan after their Airbus A380 was forced to make an emergency landing were collected...
MANILA: Devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan pushed inflation in the Philippines to a two-year high of 4.1 percent in December, the government...
