AFP, TAUNUSSTEIN: Known the world over for its water-filtering jugs, the small German family-run firm Brita typifies the “Mittelstand”, small and medium-sized businesses that form the backbone of Germany’s economy and have turned it into an export powerhouse both envied and resented…

AFP, COTONOU: Getting around most towns and cities in West Africa often means an uncomfortable ride on public transport or haggling hard with a taxi driver.…

Customers do final choices about where to spend their time, money, and effort each and every day. They might be professional between 9 am to 5pm, but…

The government’s recent move to promote LNG (liquefied natural gas) -based power generation has pushed for bringing a big change again in final draft of the Power System Master Plan (PSMP) 2016, official sources said, reports UNB. The Power Cell, a technical wing of Power Division, Power Cell…

Indonesian government will accelerate negotiation on free trade agreements in an effort to boost shipment of products overseas, an official disclosed here on Friday, reports Xinhua from Jakarta. Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said that a total of 16 trade negotiations are expected to…

AFP, BOCHUM:  Thou-sands of steelworkers hit the streets of Bochum in western Germany on Friday in opposition to industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp’s plans to merge its steel division with India’s Tata. “We aren’t convinced that merging with Tata is the best and most appropriate…

Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) plans to lower the interest rate for its flat loan scheme to single digit as some private banks have already cut the interest rates on flat loans, reports BSS. “We’ll soon send a proposal to the Bank and Financial Institutions Division…

AFP, PYONGYANG: Petrol prices are being pumped higher in Pyongyang in the wake of United Nations sanctions restricting exports of oil products to nuclear-armed North Korea. Retail prices have gone up around 20 per cent in two months, the news agency saw in the capital. Earlier this month the UN Security…

AP,  WASHINGTON: Low-cost solar panels imported from China and other countries have caused serious injury to American manufacturers, a US  trade commission ruled Friday, raising the possibility of the Trump administration imposing tariffs that could double the price of solar panels from abroad.…

AFP, TULLAMORE: Brexit hung like a cloud over Ireland’s biggest agricultural fair this week, with the country’s food and farming industries, heavily reliant on their British neighbour, feeling the impact already. Nearly 300,000 people visited the 2017 National Ploughing Championships outside…