How China’s Five Year Plans have changed the world
AFP via Getty Images China’s top leaders are gathering in Beijing this week to decide on the country’s key goals and aspirations...
Indonesia food poisonings and protests test Probowo’s first year in...
Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent Getty Images School halls have been transformed into clinics to help treat students When Prabowo Subianto campaigned to...
Reed says ‘job on the line’ over 1.5m housing target...
Justin RowlattBBC Panorama and Anna LamcheBBC News Getty Images Housing Secretary Steve Reed says his job should be “on the line” over...
China’s economic growth slows as trade tensions with US flare...
Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Getty Images The 4.8% growth in the third quarter marked a slowdown from 5.2% in the three months to...
Chancellor blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy
Rachel Reeves chose to stress the long-term damage done to the UK economy by the 2020 Brexit deal, in her remarks at...
Ed Miliband hints at cut to VAT on energy bills
Becky MortonPolitical reporter BBC The government is looking at the possibility of cutting the rate of VAT on energy bills, Ed Miliband...
Government vows to create 400,000 jobs in clean energy sector
Pritti MistryBusiness reporter Ed Miliband says 400,000 jobs is “not a target, it’s what we need” The government has announced plans to...
Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes...
All 1,287 Betfred shops could disappear from the UK High Street if Chancellor Rachel Reeves hikes taxes on gambling firms, the company’s...
Families are priced out of London, Assembly told
Kumail JafferLocal Democracy Reporting Service AFP via Getty Images The number of births in London in 2023 was 20% lower than the...
How nervous are investors about the stock market?
Every week it seems US financial markets are hit by another bout of fear. The latest worries spread this week from the...