Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his bold budget speech suspended business rates for shops and cafes, Beer, wine and cider duties were frozen as pubs get help, UK interest rates cut in an emergency move, and promises his measures to help the economy tackle the coronavirus outbreak which is expected to bring a “significant” short-term…
“The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful” – An award-winning film comes to UK Cinemas. Yang Ya-Che is the Writer and Director of this film. He has also directed Orz Boyz and GF*BF. The mainly female stars include Kara Wai (Happiness), We Ke-XI (the road to Mandalay), Vicky Chen (Angles Wear White) and…
Thousands of flights have been canceled worldwide to cope with the slump in demand caused by the coronavirus. Ryan Air will stop services to and from Italy from Friday 8 April, BA scrapping its routes until 4 April as Italy goes into total lockdown. Easy Jet has cancelled all of its flights to and from…
Jingye who completed the acquisition of British Steel saving 3200 jobs, but the rescue deal give only control of the manufacturer’s British and Dutch sites not its factory in Hayange, in northern France. Li Huiming CEO of Jingye. British Steel’s Hayange plant is deemed a strategic national asset by France as it supplies rail for…
Tesco agrees to sell its south-east Asian operations for $10.6bn Tesco has agreed to sell its south-east Asian operations for $10.6bn in cash to Charoen Pokphand, making it Asia’s largest corporate acquisition in the year to date and the biggest in Thailand’s history. Tesco said the sale would return about £5bn to shareholders via a…
Aon buys Willis Tower Watson for £30bn in an all share-deal that will combine world’s second and third largest insurance brokers into a new industry leader and throws up challenge to Marsh & McLennan, which until now has been the world’s number one in the sector by revenue, one year after they completed acquisition of…
The entire population of Italy are told to stay at home to curb the coronavirus outbreak and seek permission for essential travel. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the measures were designed to protect the most vulnerable “There is no more time”. Italy’s coronavirus death toll lappet from 366 to 463 on Monday as cases of…
Saudi Arabia has launched an oil price war targeting its biggest rivals to swamp the crude market with supplies at deep discounts to win new customers next month, a move that would send crude prices tumbling and expected to ripple through the US Junk bond market, where shale producers have borrowed billions of dollars recently.…
Italy which has one of the world’s oldest populations, 366 people have died and 7375 infected from the coronavirus outbreak Although some transport in and out of the regions affected continued on Sunday, flights still arrived at Milan’s Malpensa and Linate airports. Italy’s national carrier Alitalia said it would suspend all operations from Malpensa from…
“NOT QUITE JERUSALEM” BY PAUL KEMBER – AN AWARD WINNING WRITER – review by Penny Nair Price. 3rdto Sat 28 March. Tues Weds Thurs and Fris – 7.30 Sat 3pm and 7.30 Sat 3.30 only. Monday – closed – theatre only. The bar on ground floor is open as usual. At The Finborough Theatre…