Business

Brussels: The European Commission and China may be near a deal to avoid a dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and a wider trade war, diplomats...

Tokyo: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said China isn’t doing enough to tackle oversupply in its steel industry, after Group of Seven leaders pledged...

Washington: US business spending intentions weakened in April for a third straight month amid soft demand for machinery, but a surge in contracts to...

Muscat: Five people were injured when they inhaled fumes from a fire that broke out in a house in Touq area in the Wilayat of Izki, according to the Public...

Mumbai: State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender by assets, posted the sharpest fall in profits since 2011 as a central-bank audit...

Beijing: IT giant Microsoft is under fire in China as the company pushes users to upgrade their operating systems to Windows 10, with the pop-up upgrade...

San Francisco: Google won a jury verdict that kills Oracle’s claim to a $9 billion slice of the search giant’s Android phone business and may give...

500 expatriates working on the wrong visa have been arrested in Oman this month as the government has intensfied the raids to catch workers. This continued...

Muscat: A 35 per cent tax on petrochemical firms has been approved and tax on LNG firms has been increased from 15 per cent to 55 per cent in a joint...

Latest: Oman hikes taxs on LNG firms Muscat: In a joint session between the Majlis Al Shura and State council, suggestions to increase the tax on liquified...