UK firms 'exploiting Bangladesh'
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Bangladeshi workers get paid as little as five pence an hour to make clothes for Tesco, Asda and Primark, says a report.
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A major fraud involving criminals preying on people from new EU states wanting work in the UK is uncovered by a BBC investigation.
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Protesters and negotiators in Bangladesh have agreed a deal over a controversial coal mine project, the BBC learns.
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British military forces in Afghanistan are using up missiles, rockets and spare parts at a faster rate than expected, a newspaper has reported.
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Politics: 25 September 2004, Saturday. Bulgarians, living and working in UK, circulated an open latter claiming that all Bulgarian candidates for UK business visas are subjected to discrimination.
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New report on offshoring's implications from the British Computer Society.
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Business & money: Northern Rock monitoring criticised by CBI boss.
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British companies have been discriminated in winning lucrative public contracts in European Union countries, according to a report on Monday commissioned by the Treasury.
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Faced with rising costs and a tangle of regulations, more and more British firms are moving their operations abroad, often to China and Eastern Europe.
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US defence manufacturers Boeing and Lockheed Martin are interested in acquiring British defence companies with the aim of winning more defence contracts from the British government, media have reported.
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Supermarket giant Tesco will discuss the causes of protests by 25,000 textile workers in Bangladesh over the weekend with its suppliers, The Independent reported on Monday.
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LONDON, November 20 (Online): Afghanistan is a &quot;narco-economy&quot; and as such a likely breeding ground for terrorists, Britain said yesterday, after the United Nations reported a 64 per cent increase in opium cultivation.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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Claims the UK is losing large numbers of white-collar jobs through outsourcing is overstated, a report says.
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Britain's Serious Fraud Office is investigating allegations that several firms based in London paid bribes to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime as part of the discredited UN oil-for-food programme, The Guardian has reported.
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Tata group chairman Ratan Tata today said he would visit Bangladesh next month to discuss with government representatives the groupâs plan to invest $2 billion to set up steel, power and fertiliser plants in the country.
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BAE Systems says it has found out that it is being investigated by the UK's Serious Fraud Office.