With the news that FTSE bosses received an average 16 per cent pay rise last year, relations between senior leaders and employees in the corporate world are becoming increasingly strained. Whilst this widening pay gap is not currently reflected among ...
Tens of thousands of benefit claimants will face lower payments if they fail to look for work, under a clampdown to be announced by Jeremy Hunt. In a move to create a dividing line with Labour, the chancellor will set ...
A technology company has cancelled its trial of a four-day working week after finding the scheme increased staff stress, made them unhappy and did not improve productivity. Krystal, an internet services firm in London, introduced a four-day operation in June, ...
ABU DHABI – Major oil and gas company chiefs held discussions with heavy industry bosses on Sunday in the United Arab Emirates in an effort to agree a firm commitment to reduce carbon emissions ahead of a United Nations climate summit next month. The COP28 summit is scheduled to take place in Dubai between ...
TOKYO – Japan’s move to bar most used-car sales to Russia slammed the brakes on a trade nearing $2 billion annually that had boomed in the shadow of sanctions over Ukraine elsewhere, according to trade data and market participants. In early August, ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unlike most 27-year-olds, Chung Ching Kwong does not want any of her life shared on social media. Both her and her loved ones’ safety and freedom are at stake, said Kwong, who left Hong Kong in 2020 to ...
YOKOHAMA, Japan – Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 4.5-metre-tall (14.8-feet), four-wheeled robot that looks like “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million. Called ARCHAX after the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx, ...
During a New York speech, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, aka “The Maestro,” uttered the phrase: “Irrational Exuberance.” He was referring to the bullish action in the stock market at the time, which, in his mind, might have been ahead of ...
The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as “the social contract.” But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR. Original Article: States ...
BEIJING — The United States is the true “empire of lies,” the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday, lashing out at a US State Department report that accused Beijing of ploughing billions of dollars annually into information manipulation efforts. China ...