A Toi Moko or mummified head currently held in Warrington Museum, and said to be that of “a South Sea island chief”, is to be sent back to New Zealand, the council has announced today. The head, which was brought to Britain in the 1840s, has been kept in Warrington Museum since 1843. Janice Hayes, […]

Wage and consumption levels are rising in the developing economies of Asia, including China. This is opening up an enormous market to UK machine builders and automation engineers who can help them keep production costs down. At a recent UK Machine Builder conference, hosted by Mitsubishi Electric, strategies for entering Asia and China and […]

Brookings Doha director Salman Skaikh. (Asharq Al-Awsat) London, Asharq Al-Awsat—All eyes are turned to Egypt at a time of extreme tension and instability in the country. But there remains much confusion surrounding what exactly happened when former president Mohamed Mursi was removed from his post and where the country can go from here. Beyond the […]

President Obama’s proposal of a “grand bargain” linking a cut in corporate taxes with new federal spending on infrastructure and job creation got the brush-off from GOP leaders in Congress last week. That used to be called cutting off your nose to spite your face. Reducing corporate taxes has been a longtime Republican goal, but […]