Helen Mirren: No Essex Girl
While female actors of a certain age bemoan the absence of suitable roles, the versatile septuagenarian Dame Helen goes from strength to strength. A...
World Bank boosts financial aid to countries fighting climate change
Plan includes better-adapted homes, schools and infrastructure, plus investment in “climate-smart” agriculture and water management
THE World Bank Group has announced a new set of...
New York’s blue-collar blues: if you can make it there…
Is paranoia over vanishing industrial heritage keeping the city that never sleeps awake? TONY LENNOX examines the changing face of commerce in The Big...
Balkan Trade War Heating Up
Fruit and vegetables have become the unlikely weapons as bad neighbours sharing borders feel the discord of strained relations…
By Darren Parkin
SINCE a fragile peace...
IFC: Why Corporate Governance Is Crucial to Myanmar’s Growing Private Sector
Emerging from decades of isolation, Myanmar is undergoing major reforms to become a more market-driven economy. Many are hoping for a meteoric rise of...
EU steels itself for trade battle as 25 percent US tariffs...
THE EU – the world's second-largest steel producer after China – is preparing to confront US tariffs on steel imports due to come into...
ICC & WTO Launch Small Business Champions Initiative
A joint effort to facilitate participation by smaller companies in international trade was launched today by the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO),...
Jeff Bezos: Transforming Retail into a Loss-Leader
Best known as the founding father of Internet behemoth Amazon, Jeff Bezos is more than a one-multi-global-success-trick pony. A divisive figure – mainly due...
Northern England in reverse: ‘14 years of growth may be lost’
REGIONS in the North of England could lose up to 14 years of growth in the wake of the pandemic, a study warns.
The North...
Autonomous drone tech ‘could add billions to UK economy’
THE UK government is considering a landmark national strategy for drone technology that could spawn jobs and drive economic growth.
A White Paper, A National...





































