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Billion-pound lawsuit against Apple over App Store opens in UK
AFP, Published on 13/01/2025
» LONDON - Did US tech giant Apple abuse the dominant position of its app store in the UK? A trial opening Monday in which plaintiffs want more than one billion pounds is set to answer that question.
China leads race to become world's top cashless society, says British expert
Xinhua News Agency, Published on 06/07/2023
» LONDON: China is on track to becoming the world's top country for cash-free transactions, Kent Matthews, professor of banking and finance at Cardiff University told Xinhua recently in an exclusive interview.
English winemakers toast summer heatwaves
AFP, Published on 12/10/2022
» APPLEDORE (UNITED KINGDOM) - Under a blue sky, seasonal workers ran their secateurs along long rows of grapevines, harvesting a variety of pinot noir grown during the summer heatwave.
Bruised emerging markets are battle-ready for a US recession
Bloomberg, Published on 04/07/2022
» Emerging markets are well positioned to stare down a US recession and may even be able to lure investors their way.
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.
G7 leaders at UK summit target plan for 1bn jabs
AFP, Published on 11/06/2021
» FALMOUTH: G7 leaders on Friday open a three-day summit aimed at helping to end the Covid-19 pandemic and forge a climate-centric economic recovery, after pledging to donate one billion vaccine doses for the world's poorest countries.
BDMS aiming for 50 hospitals by 2021
Business, Darana Chudasri, Published on 22/02/2019
» Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Plc (BDMS), the country's largest private hospital operator, aims to raise the number of hospitals under its wing to 50 by 2021 from 45 now, in both local and overseas markets.
New Year break a big test for Chinese economy
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/02/2019
» HONG KONG: China’s consumers have cut back on purchases of everything from iPhones to Swiss watches as the trade war with the US hits the economy.
Google, Escap venture formed
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 14/12/2018
» Google and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (Escap) signed a memorandum of understating for a joint research network on artificial intelligence (AI) in Asia-Pacific.
Coca-Cannabis? Coke analysing cannabis in drinks
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2018
» The Coca-Cola Company said Monday it is "closely watching" the expanding use of a cannabis element in drinks, another sign cannabis and cannabis-infused products are getting more acceptance in mainstream culture and a harder look from long-established pillars of American business.