The government will focus on building new homes in England’s inner city areas instead of “concreting over the countryside,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said as the government unveiled its long-term housing plan on Monday. Mr. Sunak said the government is on track to deliver its pledge to build a million homes before the next election,…

Ministers have ordered a local council to end its experiment with a four-day week. South Cambridgeshire District Council had announced plans to extend its trial until next April but ministers have ordered officials to end it now. It was first local authority in the UK to undertake such a trial. Local government minister Lee Rowley…

Blacklisted technology company Huawei has plunged at least £30 million into British universities via research grants and donations. The Epoch Times can reveal the telecom giant—deemed a national security threat by the United States government—is the biggest China-based donor to higher educational institutions in the UK. Over the past four years, Huawei and its advanced…

Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Alicia Kearns on Wednesday wrote to Business Secretary Grant Shapps, calling for a review into the Chinese take over of a UK semiconductor company. She said the investment into Cambridge University start-up Flusso wasn’t reviewed under the National Security and Investment Act because the name of the acquirer was not mentioned…

Police say a correctional officer has been arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted an inmate at a women’s prison in Ontario. The Waterloo Regional Police Service says the 43-year-old Cambridge, Ont., man was arrested Friday and is facing charges of sexual assault and breach of trust. Staff at the Grand Valley Institution for Women contacted…

Commentary It has been almost two years since I was forced to resign from the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA), yet I still regularly keep abreast of its news. In mainland China, the media prefixes “Hong Kong” with the word “China,” mostly occurring after 2019. While this surprised me, I found that HKEAA…