Indonesians who paid thousands to work on UK farm sacked within weeks
Exclusive: Several sent home for slow fruit picking face debts as watchdog investigates alleged illegal fees Indonesian workers who paid thousands of pounds to travel...
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China posts record trade surplus as foreign importers rush to beat tariffs
The $99bn figure comes as data shows exports growing at fastest rate in 15 months while imports fell China posted a record $99bn (£76.4bn) trade...
China to hold hearing into brandy imports as tension grows with EU over tariffs on EVs
Ministry will discuss investigation into claims that European producers are selling goods below market rates Business live – latest updates China has ramped up its...
Westpac customers in Tennant Creek unable to buy food following ‘disastrous’ branch closure, critics say
Banking watchdog finds Westpac committed ‘serious and systematic’ breaches when closing remote NT branch in 2022 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates...
Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot
GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south Geologists have raised concerns about potential Chinese censorship and bias...
DS Smith’s £5.8bn takeover by US rival going ahead despite competition
Merger with International Paper moving at ‘absolutely full steam’ in face of separate interest from Brazil’s Suzano The boss of the FTSE 100 company DS...
Russian ties and cheap tech: G7 leaders unequivocal in criticism of China
Concerns set out over supply of materials with military applications, and impact of subsidies on global market China’s role in providing assistance to Russia in...
‘Greed’: John Deere rolls out hundreds of US layoffs and sends work to Mexico
Agricultural equipment company plans to move production out of the country in move condemned by workers US workers at John Deere plants have accused the...
BAT subsidiary lobbies Pakistan to allow export of cigarettes to Sudan
Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco’s plan to ‘flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes’ is ‘shameful’ A subsidiary of British American Tobacco is...
Nigerian unions shut down national grid and airports as indefinite strike begins
Electricity substations shut down, flights suspended and parliament gates blocked in protest over minimum wage Nigeria’s main labour unions have shut down the national grid,...
