• Liberia: President Sirleaf Welcomes Pathway International Initiative to Invest - Closed Liberia-UK Trade and Investment Forum.

    [Liberia Govt] President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has welcomed and encouraged more investment opportunities in Liberia as a means strengthening the economy to create more jobs in Liberia. She said: "The service is good and will be needed in countries such as ours, as we seek more partnerships to improve the ...

  • Amid uncertainty, UK Treasury chief to offer bleak outlook

    Britain's Treasury chief is likely to offer a stark outlook as he outlines his priorities in taxes and spending in the first budget update since the country voted to leave the European Union.In the biannual economic statement to lawmakers due Wednesday, Philip Hammond can take some solace in the resilience ...

  • Murkomen, Ruto's aide got sh15 million devolution cash

    Fresh revelations have emerged linking Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen and Korir Sing'oe, a top legal aide in Deputy President William Ruto's office, to a controversial Sh302 million contract from the Ministry of Devolution. The two are partners in Sing’oe, Murkomen & Sigei Advocates that was paid Sh15 million by ...

  • Hospitals and medics under attack by anti-Huthi forces in Ta’iz - Amnesty

    Source: Amnesty International Country: YemenAnti-Huthi forces in Ta’iz, south Yemen, are harassing and intimidating hospital staff and endangering civilians by stationing fighters and military positions near medical facilities, says Amnesty.Anti-Huthi forces in Yemen’s southern city of Ta’iz are leading a campaign of harassment and intimidation against hospital staff and are endangering ...

  • Samsung-AstraZeneca JV initiates clinical trials of Rituxan biosimilar in Korea

    Archigen Biotech Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture between Samsung BioLogics and UK-based AstraZeneca, has initiated the clini

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    Regno Unito, tasse sulle imprese sotto il 15%?

    Il Regno Unito del nuovo primo ministro conservatore Theresa May non ha ancora avviato le procedure per la formalizzazione della Brexit ma, nel frattempo, sta già pensando a come evitare che l'abbandono del "Vecchio Continente" provochi una emorragia di capitali stranieri. Per questa ragione l'ex segretario di Stato per gli affari ...

  • UK Treasury chief: Brexit uncertainty could drag on economy

    Britain's economy could face a slowdown because of the uncertainty caused by the decision to leave the European Union, the government's finance minister said Sunday.In an illustration of the conflicting forces at work, the Conservative government is facing pressure from dozens of its own lawmakers to make a decisive break ...

  • How Nigeria Should Engage US Under Trump – Enwegbara

    Odilim Enwegbara, a development economist and international finance specialist, is an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of London. In this interview with CHIBUZO UKAIBE, he spoke on the significance and implication of Donald Trump’s emergence as President-elect of United States, to Nigeria and Africa. He also advocates ...

  • US elections: A mad man showed up and all hell broke loose

    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” A friend in the UK sent me this quote the day after Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to Donald Trump in the U.S. elections.A white standup comedian, George Carlin ( 1937-2008 ) from New York said so.But another white friend in ...

  • Carabao kicks off footie deal

    SET-listed Carabao Group Plc (CBG), the maker of Carabao Dang energy drink, will spend 800 million baht to sponsor the Football League Cup in England from 2017-19 with an aim to widen its product reach in the global market.

  • Guardiola defends Rooney over drink row

    Wayne Rooney received support from an unlikely source when Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola revealed Friday he too drank alcohol while on international duty. England captain Rooney publicly apologised after pictures taken in the early hours of the morning of him at a wedding party at the team hotel following ...

  • Dying UK girl convinces judge to let her body be frozen 'until cure for cancer is found'

    The teenage girl's instructions were direct: She didn't want to be buried, but to be frozen - with the hope she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured."I want to live and live longer and I think that in the future they may find a cure ...

  • Obama gathers key Europe leaders amid questions about Trump

    President Barack Obama joined the leaders of key European countries in Germany on Friday to discuss an array of security and economic challenges facing the trans-Atlantic partners as the U.S. prepares for President-elect Donald Trump to take office in January.Obama's meeting with the leaders of Germany, Britain, France, Italy and ...

  • Lapid slams UK Labour leader Corbyn for having 'a problem with Jews'

    Lapid: "Jeremy Corbyn [called] Hezbollah and Hamas his friends. These are terrorist organizations - for the EU, for international law - terrorists. He called them his friends."

  • Zero tolerance needed against tax secrecy, says former Panamanian government adviser

    Former Panamanian Government advisor Joseph Stiglitz told the EU Parliamentary Committee looking into Money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (Pana) has suggested that secrecy in tax affairs should be treated like a disease which needs to be isolated.There needs to be a "comprehensive global approach" against secret tax structures, ...

  • UK's Johnson accused of offering impossible Brexit vision

    British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is offering Britons an unrealistic and unachievable vision of the U.K.'s future outside the European Union, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has said.It's the latest sign that Britain's effort to woo EU leaders before formal exit negotiations is meeting with skepticism.Dijsselbloem — who also heads ...

  • Brexit vote was 'not legally binding', says Supreme Court judge

    The EU referendum was not legally binding, a Supreme Court judge hearing the government’s appeal against the Brexit legal challenge has said ahead of the December court case.Lady Brenda Hale made the comments in a speech to lawyers in Kuala Lumpar, during which she reflected on the upcoming case, www.independent.co.uk reports. ...

  • Google looks to add 3,000 more jobs when it opens new London office

    U.S. tech giant Google on Tuesday confirmed it will expand its vast campus in central London, a move a source said is expected to bring 3,000 jobs to the British capital. Google announced it would add a new office building to a complex currently under development behind London’s King’s Cross ...

  • Liberia: National Investment Hosts Liberia-UK Trade Investment Forum

    [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -As a follow-up to the Investment Forum held in New York in September 2015, the National Investment Commission in collaboration with the British Embassy in Monrovia (through its Foreign Commonwealth Office) and Developing Market Associates (DMA) a leading investment promotion firm for sovereign governments worldwide, will be hosting ...

  • UK PM says country must respond to world transformed by Brexit, Trump

    Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump have transformed the world in a year, Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday, in a speech arguing that governments must heed people's concerns about the impact of globalization on jobs and communities.In a major foreign policy speech ...

  • UK government said to have no plan for Brexit

    A memo prepared by a consultant to the British government says ministers have no coherent plan for leaving the European Union and may need to hire up to 30,000 civil servants to complete the country's exit from the 28-nation bloc, the Times of London reported Tuesday.The newspaper said the leaked ...