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UK employee numbers surge above pre-pandemic level

British employers added a record 241,000 staff last month, lifting the total number of employees on company payrolls to just above the level before Britain first went into a COVID-19 lockdown last year, official data showed on Tuesday.

Factbox: Universal to list as music streaming picks up

Vivendi (VIV.PA), the French media conglomerate, is spinning off Universal Music Group, the largest part of its business and the label behind singers such as Taylor Swift, in a listing on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam.

Fortescue sets up new mining pact with Aboriginal group

Fortescue Metals Group (FMG.AX) has reached a deal with the Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) to oversee development of new mines at its Solomon Hub iron ore operations in Western Australia, the groups said in a statement.

Stop funding coal abroad, NGO group tells top investor Bank of China

Bank of China (BoC) (601988.SS), a top global investor in coal- power plants, must end the financing of such projects outside the mainland and support clean and renewable energy instead, an alliance of 35 non-governmental organisations said on Tuesday.

UK employee numbers surge above pre-pandemic level

British employers added a record 241,000 staff last month, lifting the total number of employees on company payrolls to just above the level before Britain first went into a COVID-19 lockdown last year, official data showed on Tuesday.

Factbox: Universal to list as music streaming picks up

Vivendi (VIV.PA), the French media conglomerate, is spinning off Universal Music Group, the largest part of its business and the label behind singers such as Taylor Swift, in a listing on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam.

Fortescue sets up new mining pact with Aboriginal group

Fortescue Metals Group (FMG.AX) has reached a deal with the Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) to oversee development of new mines at its Solomon Hub iron ore operations in Western Australia, the groups said in a statement.

Stop funding coal abroad, NGO group tells top investor Bank of China

Bank of China (BoC) (601988.SS), a top global investor in coal- power plants, must end the financing of such projects outside the mainland and support clean and renewable energy instead, an alliance of 35 non-governmental organisations said on Tuesday.

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