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Multinationals Brexit: Global Finance

May 5, 2019
Early on, multinational companies suggested they would stick with the United Kingdom through Brexit. But uncertainty since the June 2016 election when voters decided to end membership with the European Union vote and a lack of processes to replace EU regulations is prompting many to end expansion...

LG Investigates Smart TV “Unauthorised Spying” Claim

November 27, 2013
Cable and satellite companies that provide television service monitor customer viewing habits. Some smart TVs may also send information about viewer habits and connected devices to manufacturers, suggests an IT consultant. Such feedback allows custom services, but also breaks UK law if consumers do...

Hunger Pains Test North Korea’s Dynastic Succession

February 1, 2012
Isolated North Korea has carried out early stages of transfer of power from Kim Jong Il to his third son, Kim Jong Un, with elaborate titles and displays of respect. But the government faces grave challenges stemming from decades of prioritizing military spending capped by a nuclear-weapons...

On a Shoestring, India Sends Orbiter to Mars on Its First Try

September 26, 2014
All of India is celebrating the grand achievement of its spacecraft reaching Mars’s orbit. Fewer than half of 51 attempts by nations to reach Mars have worked, and India is alone with success at the first try – and on a low budget at that. Launching Mangalyaan, Hindi for Mars craft, cost $74...

Uncertainty for Italy: Guardian

August 21, 2019
Italy and its populist forces are in political crisis. Giuseppe Conte resigned as prime minister and “The president, Sergio Mattarella, is now calling the shots in a crisis triggered when Matteo Salvini pulled the plug on the League’s tenuous relationship with the Five Star Movement (M5S) in an...

Multiple COVID-19 Vaccines in Development: CNBC

March 23, 2020
Researchers around the globe are in a race to find a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 with more than 300,000 confirmed cases reported worldwide. The World Health Organization describes an accelerated process after China shared the genetic sequence: “at least 20 different coronavirus vaccines...

Hillary Clinton Warns Africa of “New Colonialism”

June 13, 2011
After a brief decline in foreign direct investment in 2009, due in part to global recession, Asian firms and governments increasingly target Africa with investment and infrastructure support, aiming to exploit the continent’s oil, minerals and other rich natural resources. In recent years, Chinese...

China to Build Naval Hub in Djibouti

November 30, 2015
Djibouti, a former French colony, is a small economy that borders Yemen and Somalia, now described as stable. China is building its first naval installation in the former French economy, which will join “a U.S. military base that supports counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and...
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