In financial markets at least, the mood has started to turn. Hong Kong vaulted to the number one spot globally for listings in the first half of this year, excluding the blank-cheque companies that ...

However, merit hiring is only the first step in reforming the civil service. Government-wide, this administration will prioritise merit through all parts of the workforce lifecycle: hiring will be ...

AT&T boss John Stankey recently went beyond specific peeves to warn of a wholesale ideological shift. The telecoms group, he wrote, would stop valuing “loyalty, tenure, and conformance” and move to “a ...

However, last week, when Germany’s Vincent Keymer, 20, won the Quantbox GM event at India’s chess heartland city of Chennai by a full two points with an unbeaten 2917 tournament performance, provided ...

The government is promising to simplify and lower the goods and services tax (GST), which should lift consumer spending. But India is a chronic fiscal and current account deficit country: it’s not ...

A school curriculum fit for modern purpose must encourage the study of Chinese civilisation rather than Mandarin ...

Axel Kicillof — the governor of Buenos Aires province who is vying with Kirchner for leadership of Peronism, Argentina’s main left-leaning opposition — scored 9.8 per cent. Conservative ex-president ...

A palpable sense of danger pervades the second book by London-based Irish-Canadian writer Joanna Pocock as she describes ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be joined in Washington by key European allies, in a push to find common ground with the US. Seven senior European leaders have said they will attend the ...

As a result, “Russia is now a gas station that is producing tanks”. And with high gas revenues, the country can more than make up for the fact that sanctions have frozen its overseas foreign currency ...

This small-scale history charts the true story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a married couple who set out to sail from Southampton to New Zealand in 1972. Almost a year in, an encounter with a 40ft ...

There’s hope that UK inquiry into police’s violent clash with miners enables reconciliation — with access to full evidence ...