Business

Tokyo: Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation has joined hands with Toshiba Corporation and Denso to set up a plant in India to produce lithium ion batteries,...

London/Kiev: Ukraine could miss out on energy sector funding from China worth up to $3.65 billion because squabbles between ministries and the state-run...

Tokyo: Naruhito Nogami, a 37-year-old systems engineer in Tokyo, drives to discount stores on weekends to bulk buy cheap groceries, even though he earns...

Washington: US retail sales fell for a second straight month in March and consumer prices dropped for the first time in just over a year, underscoring the...

Washington: The Trump administration has officially declined to brand China a currency manipulator, in another major U-turn for the US president, who had...

Muscat: National Bank of Oman (NBO) said that its net profit for the first quarter of 2017 inched down by 0.7 per cent to OMR13.8 million from OMR13.9...

Muscat: Raysut Cement Company, the Sultanate’s biggest cement producer, said that its net profit declined by 61.77 per cent to OMR3.09 million for the...

Muscat: Bank Muscat, the leading financial institution in the Sultanate, posted a net profit of OMR44.23 million for the first quarter of 2017 compared to...

Yakutia, Russia: In winter it gets so cold that metal snaps. When the weather is warmer people make a living sifting the earth for fragments of gold in the...

Shanghai: U.S. President Donald Trump may have decided not to declare China a currency manipulator, an acceptance of the difficulty of making such a charge...