Category: Business

Oman Central Bank (OCB) has announced that the total value of government treasury bills allocated for this week amounted to OR 30 million.

The bank explained in a statement Monday, that the value of the bills allocated for a maturity period of 28 da…

BEIJING: China’s foreign exchange reserves totaled US$3.2882 trillion as of the end of August, up by $31.8 billion, or 0.98 percent compared to the end of July, official data showed Saturday.

Xinhua News Agency quoted the State Administration of Fore…

RIYADH: The Saudi General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) has won the bid to host the United Nations World Data Forum in Riyadh after a competitive bidding process.

The decision was made by the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Cap…

The Qatari Businesswomen Association (QBWA) is set to take part in one of this year’s most significant international business events, the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum. Taking place from September 10 to 13 in Geneva, the forum’s theme is “Re…

Hangzhou: A new high-speed railway linking Hangzhou and Wenzhou in east China’s Zhejiang Province began operations on Friday, Xinhu reported.

The 276-km line, with a designed speed of 350 km per hour, has nine stations. Its operation offers a rapid t…

Manila: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an ambitious new road map to guide its evolution and scale up its support on key challenges facing Asia and the Pacific, including accelerated efforts to combat climate change and expand private se…

Rome: The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined marginally in August, as decreases in quotations for sugar, meat and cereals outweighed increases in those for vegetable oils and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the…

Doha: QNB noted in its weekly note that G-7 countries’ fiscal conditions are set to deteriorate on the back of a high demand for more government spending, high nominal policy rates and the deployment of fiscal-monetary coordination.

QNB said that emb…