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UK budget predicted to be a nightmare before Christmas
AFP, Published on 15/11/2022
» LONDON: Britain will Thursday hike taxes and slash public spending in a government budget that signals a return to austerity despite a cost-of-living crisis and recession headwinds.
UK to offer 10,500 post-Brexit visas to counter growing worker crisis
AFP, Published on 26/09/2021
» LONDON: Britain will issue up to 10,500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced Saturday, in a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy.
Fire and rehire: Britain's new labour battleground?
AFP, Published on 09/05/2021
» LONDON - As coronavirus wreaks severe economic damage, some British employers stand accused of taking a highly controversial measure to stay afloat: fire and rehire.
From poaching to avocados, Kenya's elephants face new threat
AFP, Published on 18/03/2021
» KIMANA (KENYA) - Just after dawn, Tolstoy lumbers into view. A wandering giant, with tusks almost scraping the earth, this great elephant has roamed beneath Mount Kilimanjaro for nearly 50 years.
Food-share apps seeking to help environment
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» LONDON: Jack Convery pops into a London branch of Italian eatery Coco di Mama to grab a cut-price lunch ordered on his smartphone's food-sharing app Karma.
China denies allegations of forced labour at Shanghai prison
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» BEIJING: China Monday denied allegations that prisoners were being used for forced labour, after a British newspaper reported that a London schoolgirl found a message in a Christmas card claiming to be from inmates at Shanghai's Qingpu Prison.
Chinese prison in forced labour scandal unmasked
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» BEIJING: Shanghai's Qingpu Prison, the Chinese prison at the centre of a forced labour scandal, describes itself as a "first-class" facility, where inmates can learn about jade sculptures and receive therapy.
Going 'nude': UK supermarkets test plastic-free zones
AFP, Published on 21/08/2019
» LONDON: British supermarkets are starting to go "nude".
Britain blocks Sainsbury's/Asda supermarket merger
AFP, Published on 25/04/2019
» LONDON - Britain's Competition and Markets Authority watchdog on Thursday blocked the merger of supermarket giant Sainsbury's and Walmart-owned Asda, arguing it would result in higher prices and less choice.
Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand
AFP, Published on 04/10/2018
» YANGON: A "mafia" of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom's notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say.