Author: Nathan Bissitt

Mitsubishi Materials, a division of one of Japan’s biggest conglomerates, saw shares fall by as much 11% on Friday after admitting to a quality scandal.Three of its units were found to have falsified data for products supplied to nearly 300 companies in the

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Dubai calls itself City of Gold. Traders there buy and sell $75bn (£56bn) worth of the precious metal every year. Part of the reason for its success is that gold is untaxed, and therefore cheap.But from the start of next year, the government is imposing a value added

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Many of us assume that if you call an emergency number like 911, 999 or 112, someone will answer quickly and help will arrive soon wherever we are in the world. But across Africa, this isn’t always the case.In

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Many of us assume that if you call an emergency number like 911, 999 or 112, someone will answer quickly and help will arrive soon wherever we are in the world.Not so in many countries across Africa. One start-up in Nairobi, Kenya, has created an app to help simplify

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There has been a big fall in the number of workers starting apprenticeships in England since the introduction of the government’s levy scheme earlier this year. The levy was supposed to increase the number of people training at work.But according to Department

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British Gas has lost 823,000 domestic customer accounts, nearly 6%, since the end of June.Owner Centrica said 150,000 of those accounts had switched to other providers, some of them because it raised prices in September.The news, unveiled in a warning about poor

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