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Hong Kong entrepreneur David Yeung is encouraging people to eat less meat to help save the earth. The trouble is, too many love their meat, especially pork.Now he thinks he has something that might persuade them – a meat substitute which he says looks, feels and tastes like the real thing.Chefs have begun using his product, Omnipork, to turn out Shanghainese soup dumplings, sweet and sour pork, as well as tan tan noodles, gyozas and meatballs.“From vegans to meat eaters, professionals and home…

The UK government has successfully defended a legal challenge against its decision to adopt a new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in England last year, but guidance contained in that framework concerning ‘fracking’ has been ruled to be unlawful.

The UK’s approach to combatting fraud, money laundering and other economic crime should be the subject of more frequent and broad review, a prominent committee of MPs has said.

A new taskforce to help support school leavers’ transition into higher education can deliver real improvements to students’ mental health and wellbeing, according to legal experts active in the higher education sector.

North Korea on Thursday attacked ongoing joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington as an “open challenge” to moves towards peace on the Korean peninsula.The US and South Korea agreed on Sunday to replace two major war games which take place every spring – the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle drills – with a shorter “Dong Maeng” or “Alliance” exercise that started this week.The move was designed to further ease tensions with the North following the dramatic detente since early 2018.There…

A teenage student’s crisp blouse and plaid skirt uniform, a sleeveless top and brightly patterned skirt and a baby’s white bodysuit – these are among the outfits on display at an event in Metro Manila to highlight sexual violence.The Don’t Tell Me How to Dress (DTMHTD) exhibition, which begins on Friday – International Women’s Day – at a mall in Taguig City, also presents harrowing testimonies from 11 girls and women together with the clothes they were wearing when they were targeted.Maica…

Offshore wind could provide 30% of Britain’s electricity generation by 2030, while supporting increased UK exports and three times as many jobs, under plans published by the UK government.

India and Pakistan announced their arrivals as nuclear powers with a flurry of weapons testing in 1998. The two countries have since refrained from testing their nukes but have nevertheless been generally accepted as de facto nuclear states and continued to invest heavily in their respective nuclear capacities.Neither is party to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the arms control agreement signed by 189 other nations. In exchange for access to peaceful uses of nuclear…

Frenzied pre-election campaigning in Thailand will come to a brief pause on Thursday afternoon, as the politically divided country anxiously awaits a court verdict on whether the party behind an abortive bid to make King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s elder sister the next prime minister should be dissolved for that controversial proposal.With the March 24 election just over two weeks away, observers say the possible dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart party by the Constitutional Court will deal a body…

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has opened a consultation on how new rules that will make businesses liable for determining the tax status of contractors who work through personal service companies (PSCs) will operate once they are extended to the private sector in April 2020.