The National Implementation Body wants electrical and engineering unions to re-engage with employers groups in a bid to avert this week's planned strike action. Up to 10,000 electricians are set to strike on Monday, in a row over pay and...
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DOHA - Qatar aims to have most of a 17 billion euro ($22.79 billion) rail project with Deutsche Bahn built by 2022, officials said on Sunday after signing one of the biggest-ever foreign deals for German industry.
INDIA is likely to miss the deadline of April 2010 for introduction of a countrywide Goods and Services Tax, or GST. That is the first impression one gets on reading the discussion paper on the subject released by the Empowered...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani business is moving into a recovery-and-risk mode, despite key economic indicators turning positive. With certain reservations, the business community, the government and the State Bank of Pakistan, or SBP,...
DUBAI - MEED, the Middle East's premier business intelligence provider, announced it has lined up over 50 leading industry experts for the third Arabian World Construction Summit, or AWCS, the single largest gathering for...