BREXIT
BUSINESSMAY 1, 2019
BUSINESS APR 30, 2019
Facebook announced Monday it would make its data available to academics studying the
impact of social media on elections, part of an effort to prevent manipulation of social
platforms. The leading social network said some 60 researchers from 30 academic
COMMENTARY / WORLDAPR 28, 2019
BY THERESE RAPHAEL
WORLD / POLITICSAPR 25, 2019
Scotland will start preparing for an independence referendum before May 2021 without permission from London, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday. Scotland, part of the United Kingdom for more than 300 years, rejected independence by 10 percentage points in a 2014 referendum. But differences over ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDAPR 23, 2019
BY DAVID HOWELL
BUSINESSAPR 15, 2019
BUSINESSAPR 11, 2019
ASIA PACIFIC / SOCIAL ISSUESAPR 9, 2019
Bracing for life after Brexit, U.K. hospitals badly need more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona. But she twice flunked the English language test that is required to get there, in which she was asked to write about topics such as the merits of immigration ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDAPR 4, 2019
BY HARUAKI DEGUCHI
BUSINESS / CORPORATEAPR 4, 2019
British government officials and senior labor union members are set to visit Japan soon to urge Honda Motor Co. to review its plan to close its automobile plant in Swindon, in the south of the country. Late last month, thousands of people — including workers ...
NATIONAL / POLITICS APR 4, 2019
Tokyo and London have decided to postpone their ministerial security talks scheduled
for next week, a Japanese government source said Wednesday, due to the U.K.
Parliament's continued efforts to end the Brexit impasse. The fourth "two-plus-two"
WORLD / CRIME & LEGAL APR 3, 2019
British police on Tuesday were investigating two attempts to disrupt the rail network
that they said were linked to Britain's exit from the European Union. The devices
were found by rail workers on tracks in central England on March 21 and 27, but
BUSINESSAPR 2, 2019
BMW's Mini plant in Britain closes for four weeks from Monday and Peugeot's Vauxhall car factory shuts for two weeks in moves planned months ago to help the firms deal with any disruption resulting from Brexit, which has since been delayed. BMW, which builds just ...
WORLD / POLITICSMAR 31, 2019
Britain's exit from the European Union was in disarray after the implosion of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy left her under pressure from rival factions to leave without a deal, go for an election or forge a much softer divorce. After one of the ...
