The Celtics finally landed their trade target yesterday. For a while there, it looked as if they would be rebuffed in their aim to claim 2015 fourth overall pick Kristaps Porzingis; talks with the Wizards and the Clippers bogged down after the latter saw fit to question reigning National Basketball […]
Construction hungry for new talent as one in four women open to skilled trades, new research reveals
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> New research from Trade-Up, a sector-wide campaign set up to train and up-skill tradespeople, exposes the industry’s talent barriers that stifle new entrants. Trade-Up commissioned an independent survey among 2,087 people aged 25-60 across the UK. The findings reveal strong interest in pursuing a career in trade, with one […]
Indonesia moves ASEAN military drills’ site away from S.China Sea
ASEAN.ORG JAKARTA — Indonesia has changed where it will host ASEAN’s first-ever joint military exercise to a location away from the South China Sea where several countries including China have overlapping territorial claims, its military said on Thursday. The non-combat drills for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […]
Slowing Chinese economy of more concern to EU firms than geopolitics
REUTERS BEIJING — A slowdown in both the Chinese and global economies is the biggest issue affecting European firms in China, beating political tensions with the United States and decoupling, according to the European Chamber of Commerce in China. The number of European firms that see China as a top-three […]
Experts raised safety concerns about missing Titanic submersible in 2018
OCEANGATE EXPERTS raised safety concerns in 2018 about the submersible vessel that has been missing since Sunday, when it descended with tourists on a deep ocean journey to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The pilot and four passengers are aboard and the available oxygen on the vehicle has been […]
How Poland snagged Intel’s multi-billion dollar investment
INTEL Corporation’s global headquarters is in Santa Clara, California. — INTEL CORPORATION WROCLAW, Poland/STOCKHOLM – Poland’s third-largest city Wroclaw beat rivals last week to be home to the next multi-billion dollar Intel chip factory in Europe, with a two-year campaign promising subsidies, infrastructure, talent and a slice of American life. […]
Oliva secures €5m to expand workplace mental health support
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> Oliva, a healthtech platform offering specialist, on-demand mental health and wellbeing support to employees, has today announced a €5 million fundraise in a round led by Molten Ventures and joined by existing investors Stride VC and new backers Alumni Ventures. Angels including Kieran Flanagan, CMO at Zapier, […]
UK dairy prices could keep rising unless staff shortages ease
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> The UK’s largest dairy cooperative has said there could be further increases in the price of milk and other dairy products if the government does not urgently tackle labour shortages in farming. The lack of workers is fuelling food price inflation, Arla said, warning that without action […]
Construction skills ‘crisis’ as new figures reveal just one in five sector SMEs are planning to take on an apprentice
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> Apprenticeship starts and completions show worrying declines, despite construction and trade business owners rating skills shortages as their top concern Construction sector already faces huge skills gap, with Checkatrade’s recent Trade Skills Index Report predicting 1m more tradespeople will be needed over the next decade just to […]
Entrepreneurs launch Trafod – a new platform to revolutionise public engagement
<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> Award-winning entrepreneurs Cathy Owens and Nerys Evans have launched Trafod, a comprehensive platform designed to improve organisations’ public consultations, campaigns or events – both offline and online. Trafod enables organisations of all sizes to benefit from an affordable one-stop-shop product that integrates digital technology with political insight and […]