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Phone firms under attack for supplying ‘spy’ technology

22.06.09
Mobile phone firm Nokia and IT company Siemens came under fire today as it emerged they supplied Iran with the technology it is using to block phone and internet access... more

Energy giants set to capture desert heat

18.06.09
A consortium led by some of Germany's richest companies is venturing into the deserts of North Africa in a half-billion pound project aimed at bringing solar energy to Europe... more

City Spy: Restaurateur is mad as hell

18.06.09
SOREN JESSEN, a sometime Merrill Lynch banker who now owns City eaterie One Lombard Street, is mad as hell. He has just incurred a £54,000 stamp duty charge for renewing his lease on the premises — ouch... more

Man trucks probed in major ‘bribery’ scandal

12.05.09
The giant Man trucks and machines company is the latest German industrial concern to be embroiled in a corruption scandal that has spread across the country ... more

Get a move on, Ed, or sun will set on our wind-power dream

16.04.09
Energy analysis: Seen any sign of those 300 wind turbines the height of Nelson's Column going up in the Thames estuary for the promised London Array, "the world's biggest offshore wind farm"?... more

It’s better to pay a £900m fine than suffer a worse fate

03.03.09
There can't be many businesses that regard being fined €1 billion for endemic corruption as a successful outcome.... more

Battle lines are drawn up as recession bolsters corruption

13.01.09
Legal analysis: More cases of corruption are likely as a result of the recession, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions... more

Hang on a minute lads ... Caine tells all about that job

28.11.08
Sir Michael Caine has solved the mystery of a 40-year-old cliffhanger at the end of his cult film, The Italian Job... more

Drax puts its energies into alternatives

24.10.08
Analysis: It is, says Dorothy Thompson, the Drax chief executive who wants to produce a whole load of our electricity from biomass, the forgotten renewable energy... more

Drax unveils £2bn plans to turn green

23.10.08
Energy: Britain's biggest polluting power station, the giant coal-fired Drax, reveals ambitious plans to become one of the country's biggest green energy producers... more

All aboard Der Routemeister

17.10.08
A proposal for a new electric Routemaster bus is unveiled, complete with glass roof, optional solar panels and LCD screens showing route details... more

German workers demand 8 per cent rises

29.09.08
Pay: IG Metall - the most powerful union on the Continent - has demanded a hefty 8% pay increase for 3.6 million workers in the metallurgy and electronics industries... more

Siemens close to US scandal deal

21.08.08
Embattled engineering giant Siemens is close to reaching a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US justice department in its billion pound bribery scandal... more

UK fears as Germany on brink of recession

14.08.08
Fears for the health of the UK economy intensified as figures emerged suggesting that the slowdown is taking the rest of Europe close to recession... more

Basketball link in Siemens trial

07.08.08
The next round of Siemens corruption trials will feature female basketball stars as witnesses... more

SEC team starts Siemens probe

06.08.08
US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating billion-pound slush-funds... more

Siemens bids to avoid US action

01.08.08
Siemens hopes this week's guilty verdict in its massive kickbacks scandal will put proceedings against it in the US on hold... more

Siemens mulls scandal action

29.07.08
Board of German engineering group are expected to go after the assetts of former bosses as bribery scandal continues to rock the company... more

Alcatel-Lucent ditches bosses

29.07.08
Chairman and CEO of Franco-American telecoms giant are culled following a series of ofit warnings... more

Guilty verdict in Siemens slush scandal

28.07.08
Former Siemens manager Reinhard Siekaczek, convicted over his role in a corruption scandal at the company, given a two-year suspended sentence and fined £85,000... more

15,000 facing the axe at Siemens

27.06.08
Scandal-plagued electronics giant Siemens could cut as many as 15,000 jobs worldwide, with the UK taking some of the pain... more

£209m 'smart' move by Nokia

24.06.08
Mobile phones maker Nokia hopes to shake up the sector with a £209 million deal to take control of software firm Symbian... more

Siemens to sue scandal bosses

14.04.08
German engineering giant wants to go after the executive committee members in charge during slush-fund scandal ... more

New train design 'unworkable'

14.04.08
Plans for a new multi-billion-pound fleet of high-speed trains to run between London and the North and West of England are in disarray... more

The power of art

09.10.06
It's hard to think of a more impressive backdrop than Battersea Power Station for this first significant show of Chinese contemporary art, says Nick Hackworth. ... more

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