NEW DELHI — Neda Saiyyada was among a handful of women in India whose company gave her six months of maternity leave last year instead of t...
DETROIT, United States: Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp. pleaded guilty to fraud Monday and agreed to pay $1 billion in penalties for ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Oil major Saudi Aramco has signed a $7 billion deal to take a 50 percent stake in a mega Malaysian oil refinery proj...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian companies and their Saudi Arabian counterparts signed on Tuesday preliminary agreements for seven deals worth more t...
RABAT: Morocco’s key tourism sector barely grew last year amid security challenges, but operators are hoping Chinese and Russian visitors wi...
TOKYO: Negotiators from 16 Asian countries are meeting in the Japanese port city of Kobe this week for talks on a regional trade pact seen a...
NEW YORK: Passive investment funds are poised to shift an estimated $2 billion from far-term to near-term crude futures over the next week, ...
SINGAPORE: Oil prices rose on Monday, with the market set to rise for five of seven sessions as a global supply glut appears to ease, but ri...
JEDDAH: Global prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are expected to remain constrained beyond 2020 as a wave of fresh supply capacity comes...
MANAMA: The proposed second causeway linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain is likely to boost Bahrain’s tourism industry, Khalid Al-Rumaihi, CEO ...
BARCELONA, Spain: Handsets that just make calls and send texts — were set to disappear as technology moved on, but they have survived in eme...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Monday that Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Saudi Aramco will invest $7 bi...
RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia on Sunday launched a parallel equity market designed to boost small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that closed up ...
BEIJING: China will focus on stable development of its capital markets this year, but will press ahead to further open its markets to foreig...
TUNIS: Tunisia is likely to sell stakes in three state-owned banks this year and cut up to 10,000 public sector jobs as part of reforms dema...
CAIRO/LONDON: Egyptian officials say plans to increase charges for entry visas paid by foreign visitors arriving in the country have been pu...
LONDON: Over the years, euro zone economic growth has been a bit like the Sirens in Homer’s Odyssey: Singing a song of promise, only to end ...
MADRID: Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with artificial intelligence functions and other innovations at the world’s biggest mobi...
LONDON: Dependent on foreign workers and subsidies from Brussels, Britain’s small but important agricultural sector is losing sleep over the...
WASHINGTON: The US has rekindled interest in ultra long-term debt, including possibly a rare century bond, to lock in the current very low b...