This International Women’s Day, Big Issue Invest is celebrating the female-led award-winning social enterprise Foundervine. The organisation has supported over 5,000 diverse-led ventures to start and scale through training, space, networks and access to capital. The organisation has recently been ...
As Jeremy Hunt prepares to present his first spring budget next week, the Treasury is coming under renewed pressure from business leaders to announce greater support to revive faltering investment and economic growth. Companies are facing a “one-two punch”, with ...
IWG, the world’s biggest provider of serviced office space, reported record revenue last year after cashing in on the popularity of hybrid working. Mark Dixon, the property industry veteran and IWG’s founder and chief executive, believes that head offices are ...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s headline inflation dropped to its lowest rate in 13 months in February and came in below expectations, commerce ministry data showed on Tuesday, helped by easing energy and food prices. The headline consumer price index (CPI) rose ...
NEW DELHI — The Indian government on Tuesday said it has directed two of its agencies to “immediately intervene” and purchase red onion crops from the market after prices fell significantly over the last month, resulting in protests by farmers. ...
SINGAPORE — Plastics entering the world’s oceans have surged by an “unprecedented” amount since 2005 and could nearly triple by 2040 if no further action is taken, according to research published on Wednesday. An estimated 171 trillion plastic particles were ...
BERLIN — When Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calvino found out she would be the only woman lined up for a photo call to promote the high-profile Madrid Leaders Forum last May, she walked out. “We can no longer consider it ...
Double Dutch, the producers of award-winning premium mixers and tonics, has launched its Female Bartending Scholarship Programme for the third year, as part of its ongoing mission to foster upcoming female talent in the hospitality industry. With research revealing that ...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve will likely need to raise interest rates more than expected in response to recent strong data and is prepared to move in larger steps if the “totality” of incoming information suggests tougher measures are needed ...
WASHINGTON – The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats. The endorsement boosts efforts by a number of lawmakers to ban the popular app, which is owned ...