White-owned companies in Zimbabwe will be forced to hand control to black businessmen under laws reminiscent of those that led to the seizure of the nation’s farms. The regulations demand that companies, including foreign firms, hand over at least 51 per cent of ownership to “indigenous” Zimbabweans. Thousands of businesses, including the operations of Barclays bank, Standard Chartered... 

China has overtaken the UK and New Zealand as Australia’s biggest source of immigrants, official figures reveal. The latest government figures show a record 6,350 people arrived from China in the four months to October. China’s new primacy was due largely to a fall in migration from the UK and New Zealand, as people there opt to hold on to jobs instead of moving to Australia. Arrivals...