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...
Ex-Apple adviser to meet Scottish female founders
RON WEISSMAN, a former senior executive at Apple and adviser to the late Steve Jobs, will meet with a group of Scottish-based female company...
A much-Googled question: ‘What is an NFT?’
By HAL WILLIAMS
IT’S SOMETHING BV asked as well (see Winter 2021/22 issue) — but global interest and ignorance have not been erased by our...
World Bank Visits Slavonia to Identify Growth Constraints
Zagreb, September 7-9, 2017– A World Bank team, led by the new Country Manager, Elisabetta Capannelli is undertaking a visit to Slavonia to discuss...
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...
Patrick Awuah: Educating the Future Leaders of Africa
The prestigious and pioneering Ashesi University in Ghana is on a mission to educate a new generation of business leaders. Built on a hilltop...
Emirates order keeps A380 in production
Giant airliner’s future had been under a cloud
The Emirates airline has pulled the Airbus A380 back from an early grave with an order for...
Dramatic fall in half-year profits strikes to heart of John Lewis
JOHN Lewis Partnership’s June predictions of low-to-zero profits for the first half of 2018 have proven precise, rather than pessimistic: a plunge of 99...
UK’s ATMs disappear as digital cash edges closer
FINTECH firm Intergiro has conducted a study to find which UK regions have seen the biggest decline in cash machines since 2018.
Using data from...
Selfless gesture: world’s super rich calling for higher taxation
SOME of the richest people on the planet want higher taxes on themselves and their peers to aid economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
A...
