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The intrusion was considered a "major cybersecurity incident" as it was attributed to an advanced persistent threat; [2] other agencies determined that the hack originated from China. [19] The New York Times reported that the hack was committed by a Chinese intelligence agency as part of an espionage operation, in juxtaposition to efforts to ...
April 2024 – The UK criminally charged two individuals under the Official Secrets Act for conducting espionage on behalf of China. [75] May 2024 – The UK Ministry of Defence's payroll system was targeted multiple times in a Chinese cyberattack in which personnel and their bank details were compromised. [76]
It was announced at the end of July 2013 that South Africa's Standard Bank was in talks to sell its markets business in London to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for more than $500 million. [37] The transaction was completed on 1 February 2015, after which the London-based operation has been known as ICBC Standard Bank.
So far China has failed to gain planning permission to build a new embassy over 20,000sqm of land. The proposed embassy would be about 18 per cent bigger than the US embassy in London, which ...
China first announced plans to build a new London embassy in 2018 in keeping with its increasing diplomatic clout, buying land on the former site of the Royal Mint - the maker of British coins ...
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, located in Westminster. On 13 May 2024, the Metropolitan Police of London, United Kingdom, announced three men (Bill Yuen, Peter Wai, and Matthew Trickett) had been charged with national security offences for assisting Hong Kong intelligence service and foreign interference, including spying on Nathan Law and other exiled activists of Hong Kong.
President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's government and the country's biggest bank, Sberbank, to build cooperation with China in artificial intelligence. Putin's instructions were published ...
Co-op Live announces the postponement of its opening events starring Peter Kay as the venue is not ready. [358] 23 April Office for National Statistics data indicates UK government borrowing was at £120.7bn in March 2024, lower than the figure for the same time the previous year, but £6.6bn higher than the government's forecasts. [359]