HANOI — Vietnam on Thursday reported faster economic growth in the second quarter, driven by the services sector, despite a slump in trade that analysts say could signal a slowdown ahead. Vietnam, a regional manufacturing hub, has been trying to ...
The West Midlands has cemented its reputation as a global investment hotspot, emerging as the UK’s top regional location for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) outside London. The region has recorded the highest annual growth rate of all UK locations. ...
The Government has injected £80 million into UK Businesses to revolutionise their industry with cleaner energy sources – such as hydrogen and biomass. The funding is part of a £1 billion drive to support state-of-the-art clean climate technologies, and is ...
The Institute of Export & International Trade has launched a £5m Export Support Programme to help UK businesses accelerate their journey into international trade. The announcement also coincides with the United Nations’ World MSME (micro, small and medium sized enterprises) ...
Amazon is launching legal action against ‘fake review brokers’ in an effort to curb the tide of online fraudulent reviews. The company said it has launched legal action against fraudsters attempting to mislead Amazon customers and harm Amazon selling partners ...
OTTAWA – Presumed human remains and debris from the tourist submersible crushed to pieces in an undersea implosion that killed all five people aboard were recovered from the ocean bottom and brought ashore to Canada on Wednesday, the US Coast Guard said. The possible remains and shattered bits of the submersible Titan, destroyed while diving to ...
Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee on Wednesday blocked state laws prohibiting the use of puberty-blocking drugs and hormones for transgender children from taking effect while lawsuits challenging the bans proceed. They are the latest in a series of similar rulings around the country, with laws in seven states ...
SYDNEY – The former premier of Australia’s most populous state engaged in corrupt conduct involving another lawmaker with whom she was in a secret romantic relationship, a years-long corruption inquiry that examined business dealings with China said on Thursday. The New South Wales Independent Commission into Corruption (ICAC) said in a report handed to parliament ...
Twitter’s new chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, is working on a slew of measures to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Elon Musk’s ownership, including introducing a video ads service, pursuing more celebrities and raising headcount, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday. Ms. Yaccarino, who started as CEO on June 5, is ...
Politics is of its very nature biased in favor of intervention and planning. Even in its “minarchist” or “night-watchman” version, politics is based at root on the idea that some decisions must be made coercively and imposed on unwilling minorities ...