Government Of Guam

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers

...The stricter government procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options....

March 24, 2024

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North Korea claims successful launch of solid fuel hypersonic missile

...Experts say North Korean IRBMs are likely capable of striking US sites in Asia, including military installations on the island of Guam in the western Pacific....

January 15, 2024

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Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthScottish National Party

Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the Scottish government is on the line

...provided the government with a working majority in parliament....

April 25, 2024

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The pursuit of happiness

...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....

March 22, 2024

UK defence spending

Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere

...The government estimates that getting military spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product from its current baseline of 2.3 per cent of GDP will cost an extra £4.5bn a year by 2028-29....

April 24, 2024

HS2

Lack of orders puts future of HS2 train factories in doubt

...Train companies are technically in charge of making rolling stock orders, but their budgets for these are set by the government....

March 23, 2024

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New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

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Record amounts of sewage flow into UK rivers

Data from Environment Agency prompts calls for government to declare national emergency

April 4, 2024

Post Office scandal

Campaigner Alan Bates accuses government of ‘vindictiveness’ in treatment of Post Office victims

...The role of Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats and former postal affairs minister in the 2010 coalition government, has been under scrutiny since an ITV drama about the scandal in January sparked...

April 9, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...In 2014 Network Rail’s £30bn of debts were added to the government’s balance sheet after the ONS reclassified it as a public body....

April 18, 2024

Paul Killik

Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion

...I believe successive British governments bear a good deal of responsibility for what has happened....

April 5, 2024

UK Government

Former UK prime ministers call for reform of ‘centre’ of government

...The review, which will be launched by former Conservative and Labour prime ministers Major and Brown, is the result of a year-long “commission on the centre of government” convened by the IfG....

March 10, 2024

UK agriculture

Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England

...than the government intended....

March 25, 2024

UK immigration

House of Lords insists on further changes to Sunak’s Rwanda bill

...As a result of the government’s new immigration rules 40,000 people in the UK were “stuck in a Kafkaesque perma-backlog of inadmissible [asylum] cases”, he added....

April 17, 2024

Taiwan

Taiwan’s military drills focus on Chinese naval threat after election

...China Sea and the Bashi Channel, through which US submarines can approach from their base in Guam....

January 31, 2024

LexBoeing Co

Why Boeing’s cash woes could merit an industrial policy lifeline Premium

...Even if the idea of a government-sponsored aircraft seems remote, Boeing is considering some fundamental organisational questions....

April 26, 2024

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Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Letter

Letter: Why Biden’s ratings should improve before US election

...Paul WhiteleyEmeritus Professor of Government,University of Essex, Boxford, Suffolk, UK...

March 29, 2024

North Korea nuclear tensions

North Korea tests first solid-fuel ‘hypersonic’ missile

...Experts said North Korean IRBMs were probably capable of striking US assets in Asia, including military installations in Guam and the western Pacific....

January 15, 2024

Martin Wolf

The tree of debt must stop growing

...Overall, they note, debt sustainability depends upon four elements: primary balances, economic growth, real interest rates and debt: “Higher primary balances — the excess of government revenues over expenditures...

April 9, 2024

News in-depthHaiti

Haiti nears transitional government in stand-off with gangs

...During negotiations over the transitional administration, gangs have taken advantage of the lack of effective government to attack energy infrastructure, terrorise the streets and launch assaults on public...

March 22, 2024

Europe Express

What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium

...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....

March 27, 2024

Irish economy

Ireland forecasts €8.6bn budget surplus this year

...The government believes as much as €11bn — nearly half of this year’s projected €24.5bn corporation tax haul — amounts to a “windfall” of exceptional profits paid by a small number of firms....

April 23, 2024

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Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state

...The discovery of oil did not help, transforming the business of government into divvying up rent, not creating wealth....

March 12, 2024

News in-depthEnvironment

Welsh mines leak at least 500 tonnes of harmful metals each year

...The figures sparked calls for the UK government to take action to tackle the legacy of Britain’s mining past....

March 11, 2024

News in-depthSociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA

China’s Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile at risk of backfiring

...But Tianqi’s investment to solidify its position in Latin America, home to the “lithium triangle” of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, is in jeopardy as the Chilean government works to exert more control over...

April 10, 2024

Greensill Capital

Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’

...Downing Street said the government would not comment on active legal proceedings. Additional reporting by Robert Smith...

March 5, 2024

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