Queen’s Birthday Honours: the full 2021 list June 12, 2021 Below the full list of names for this year ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) The Rt. Hon. Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, The Earl Howe. For political and parliamentary service. (Amersham, Buckinghamshire) ORDER OF THE BATH Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) [...]
Chinese phone maker ZTE fined $1.2bn for breaching sanctions for shipping US-built equipment to Iran March 7, 2017 ZTE has been slapped with penalties totalling $1.2bn (£1bn) by the US authorities for sanctions breaches. The Chinese phone maker pleaded guilty to shipping products containing US-produced equipment to Iran, which is a violation of US export rules, for almost six years. The US authorities had been probing export practices at the company for five years. [...]
Editor’s Notes: Time to wake up to your own online data dump March 23, 2018 Having spent the past decade pouring my every opinion and interest on toFacebook, I find myself outraged to discover that the data generated by my self-obsessed oversharing has been used to try and sell me things. Worse, political campaigns have been using my deep data footprint to try and target me with campaign messages. This [...]
Iran is open for business with a post-Brexit UK November 14, 2016 Iran is officially open for business after four years in the global wilderness. Following the imposition of financial sanctions in 2012 by the US for its burgeoning nuclear weapons programme, it was almost impossible for the west to do any business with Iran. Those sanctions were lifted earlier this year after France, Germany, UK, Russia and [...]
Can Oman double its tourism in just six years? Jenny Southan visits the nation’s top luxury retreats to find out… July 6, 2018 Just metres beyond the hotel’s infinity pool is the edge of a cliff that gives way to an enormous canyon that stretches towards the horizon. This is one of the highest points in the Middle East – 2,000 metres above sea level – and if you dare to venture over this precipice you can make [...]
Editor’s Notes: Jeremy Corbyn’s Russia position is the latest in a shameful line-up, the IoD strides on and City AM bucks the industry trend March 16, 2018 Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to recognise the hand of the Russian state in the Salisbury attack puts him at odds with the British government and its intelligence services, Nato, the United Nations Security Council, France, America, Germany and a host of other allies. It also serves as a reminder that if the British label you an [...]
Vodafone is heading to Iran with new connection October 18, 2016 Vodafone is entering the newly opened Iranian market in a new tie up after sanctions were eased in the country. The mobile carrier will partner with Iran's HiWEB to offer business customers service in the country while Vodafone will support various parts of HiWEB's business, including marketing, sales, distribution and Internet of Things services. "Vodafone’s corporate customers will get the benefit [...]
Penny Mordaunt named international development secretary November 9, 2017 Penny Mordaunt has been promoted to the cabinet, taking the international development seat vacated by Priti Patel last night. The Portsmouth North MP, who has been the minister for disabled people since Theresa May became Prime Minister last summer, was the favourite as she maintains both the delicate balance of views on Brexit within the [...]
Last Week in the City: Trade fears re-emerge August 3, 2018 Garry White, chief investment commentator, looks at the market-moving events that have shaped the UK equity markets this week (30 July to 3 August 2018). Interest rates were raised in the UK for the second time since the financial crisis, but the move was widely expected. The earnings season continued. Growth in all regions was [...]
Liam Fox: British public will not accept lower food standards after Brexit November 7, 2017 Trade secretary Liam Fox has said the government will not lower food standards after leaving the European Union, a day after a senior US secretary said better trade relations would demand it. Fox, who has previously been open-minded on matters such as chlorinated chicken, told Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK would not see “reductions [...]