The analytical report addresses the impact of the waiver of fees for expatriate workers in the industrial sector, an initiative introduced in 2019 and running until the end of 2025, under a recent ext ...

World Bank President Ajay Banga has increased balance sheet leverage and taken other capital adequacy measures to squeeze out an additional $10bln to $12bln in annual lending capacity ...

The US central bank's decision to slash interest rates this week is a "very positive sign" for where the world's biggest economy stands, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday. Yellen's ...

SEOUL - South Korea's LIG Nex1 said on Friday it won a 3.71 trillion won ($2.8 billion) order from Iraq to export mid-range surface-to-air missile defence systems. The defence company did not give any ...

The blasts that killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 over two days targeted communication devices used by the Iran-backed Hezbollah group ...

London's FTSE 100 index closed up 0.9 percent, paring back some gains after the Bank of England held its own rate steady at ...

The Israeli army said it struck hundreds of targets in Lebanon on Thursday as fears of full-scale war soared following deadly explosions of hand-held devices belonging to Hezbollah operatives.

Hezbollah's leader acknowledged Thursday that his group had suffered an "unprecedented" blow when thousands of operatives' communication devices exploded across Lebanon in deadly attacks it blamed on ...

The euro also firmed to $1.1160, up 0.8% for the week and within striking distance of the August peak of $1.1201 ...

Warner Music Group said on Thursday it would lay off about 150 employees, in addition to its earlier job cuts this year, totaling to about 13% of its workforce as part of a revised strategic ...

SHANGHAI: China unexpectedly left benchmark lending rates unchanged at the monthly fixing on Friday, confounding market expectations that were primed for a move after the Federal Reserve delivered an ...

SYDNEY: Asian shares extended their rally on Friday, bathing in the afterglow of an outsized interest rate cut in the United States, while the yen was jittery ahead of a monetary policy decision in ...