Asian stock markets were subdued on Monday, as tensions in Ukraine kept investors cautious amid an absence of catalysts as several markets remained closed for the Easter holiday. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched down 0.1 percent. Japan's...

Damascus- Indo Asian News Service: Syria has raised the price of gasoline by 20 percent as part of government-guided austerity measures to cut costly subsidies, the fifth increase in three years. The Ministry of Trade and Consumer Protection announced Wednesday that the price of one...

Iran and Russia will find it hard to agree any oil or gas trade deal because they are rivals in both markets , Iran's deputy oil minister for international trade said on Monday. Iran and Russia have been discussing various ways of increasing bilateral trade,...

Libya's Zueitina oil port prepared on Monday to load crude into tankers after the government reached a deal with rebels to reopen four terminals that insurgents have occupied since the summer. The federalist rebels agreed on Sunday to end gradually their eight-month blockade...