New research exposes the difficulties businesses face accessing finance from mainstream lenders and how alternative solutions can plug the gap. More than a quarter of business leaders surveyed have had difficulties accessing finance from main banks, over a third say ...
The UK economy edged back to growth in July with output up by an estimated 0.2 per cent in the month, following a 0.6 per cent fall in June. It means gross domestic product, the main measure of output, stagnated ...
TOKYO — Bucking the age-old stereotype of hard-drinking college students, Manaka Okamoto considers the next day’s schedule before cracking open an alcoholic beverage. “If I have to get up early, and I think ‘Oh, I should hold off on drinking,’ ...
TOKYO — Japan’s government is planning to waive tourist visa requirements from some countries as part of a further easing of border controls enacted to stop the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Fuji News Network reported on Monday. Prime ...
LONDON — Mourners in their thousands will be able to file past the coffin of Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth in a round-the-clock lying-in-state from Wednesday evening to early on the day of her funeral. Hundreds of thousands of people are ...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is considering joining India and China in buying Russian oil to offset increasing pressure of rising energy costs, the Financial Times reported on Monday. “We always monitor all of the options. If there is the country (and) they ...
Sixteen works have become the first Chinese web novels to be included in the British Library, one of the world’s largest academic libraries. The works now in the library’s Asian & African collections are My Heroic Husband, Up in the ...
Some of the UK’s biggest strikes have been called off after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Unions representing Royal Mail postal workers and rail staff said that “out of respect for her service to the country and her family” ...
WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., invoked the memory of America’s united response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda and vowed to “never give up” in the face of terrorist threats in a solemn commemoration ...
A group of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs have urged the Prime Minister to back a new entrepreneurship competition in a push to get British startups back on track. In a letter to Liz Truss, the group, which include senior management ...