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...The network prides itself on being the world’s oldest underground railway and one of its largest....
...The ESG team meets regularly with managers to assess progress towards net zero....
...My RHF the PM successfully negotiated a landmark international tax deal to make sure multinational corporations – including big tech companies – pay the right tax in the countries where they operate....
...But even the plans already announced are breathtaking in scope: the nationalisation of rail, water, mail and electricity distribution companies; significantly higher taxes on the rich; the enforced transfer...
...“We are living with a 19th-century railway system, with poor service and slow speeds. This will transform Indian Railways into a 21st-century service provider.”...
...We’ll end the practice of purchasing services through overseas branches to avoid UK VAT and we’ll crack down on insurance companies routing services through offshore territories....
...But progress is painfully slow. We cannot simply talk forever. So we will now introduce a UK Digital Services Tax....
...Labour and business: Policy tensions Corporation tax Labour says it will set out plans for a sharp increase in corporation tax — from 19 per cent to 26 per cent — for big companies while keeping it relatively...
...The first two to be privatised, say officials, will be the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and the India Railway Finance Corp....
...China Railway Corporation, the state-owned rail operator and investor in the country’s high-speed networks, has debts of Rmb3.8tn ($558bn), much more than the national debt of Greece....
...Prof Coyle says the field is in the “massive hype stage” of its development but predicts: “Things will progress quickly.”...
...Greece has wrapped up the sale of its struggling rail operator TrainOSE to Italy’s state railway company as the leftwing government comes under pressure from bailout lenders to accelerate the country’s flagging...
...Although China has been strong in beating out Japan for high-profile projects like the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail, Chinese companies have often been light on implementation....
...However, most of these companies have only worked on city-level rail projects. Only YTL has experience constructing and operating fast long-distance train services....
...Many others depend on his progress. “Only the minister can eliminate such red tape,” says Anant Swarup, the wonderfully titled Executive Director, Public Grievances to Minister of Railways....
...But families, too, rely on roads, rail, telecoms – and, especially housing. We have made good progress, with the number of new homes being built last year hitting an eight-year high....
...Another firm, V Krishnan & Co, was appointed auditor on the 28th....
...“BNSF Railway is encouraged that parties involved have agreed to mediation and urges prompt restoration of full production levels necessary to avoid further disruptions,” it said....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...It has added a Sustainable Products and Services award....
...Resurrection of the Lagos-Kano service took nearly three years instead of the planned 10 months, with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and Costain West Africa, a local company, splitting...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Italian Ways : On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99, 288 pages Not an account of one journey but a portrait of a country and its people, encountered in railway...
...An infrastructure system which facilitates access to 21st century markets – intercity rail capacity, much better rail freight and a large international airport for the UK....
...after the sale of High Speed 1, owner of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link assets....
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