Lianna Brinded

News Editor

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Lianna Brinded is the news editor at International Business Times UK and has worked across print, online and TV. Her portfolio includes the Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC, CNBC and The Independent.

Lianna holds a Masters degree in Contemporary War and Peace Studies, specialising in genocide and ethic nationalist conflict, from University of Sussex, and a BA (hons) degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent.

Lover of science, Star Trek, computer games, Warhammer, triathlons and roller derby.

China has beaten the United States for having the youngest billionaire population in the world as well as having the highest percentage of self-made billionaires in any country. (Photo: Reuters)

China Beats US for Youngest Billionaires in the World

China records second largest billionaire population after the United States.

Guernsey’s finance industry is forging stronger ties with China after the British Channel Island’s banking, private wealth, investment and insurance sectors featured heavily in meetings with regulatory authorities in Beijing and Shanghai (Photo: Reuters)

Guernsey's Finance Industry Forges Stronger Links With Wealthy China Investors

British Prime Minister David Cameron recently said that Guernsey is not a tax haven

Daily Mail's MailOnline Revenues Jump 48% in 2013

Daily Mail and General Trust reveals revenues rise to £41m from £28m in 2012

France Investigates Ikea for Allegedly Spying on Employees [VIDEO]

French prosecutors put local unit of Ikea and two top executives under investigation.

ActionAid has slammed Barclays for claiming to be a “force of good” despite promoting the use of offshore tax havens to big companies operating in Africa. (Photo: Reuters)

ActionAid Slams Barclays for Corporation Tax Avoidance Promotion in Africa

Charity says tax avoidance by big companies drains billions of pounds from poor countries.

The collapse of the Bangladeshi Rana Plaza factory killed 1,100 people (Photo: Reuters)

Global Retailers Agree on Pact to Avoid Another Rana Plaza Disaster

The collapse of the Bangladeshi factory killed 1,100 people and highlighted the cost of cheap fashion

Incomes Data Services survey reveals manufacturers offered the steepest rises with an average 2.5% increase (Photo: Reuters)

British Pay Rises Slower Than Inflation at 2% for Third Quarter 2013

Incomes Data Services survey reveals manufacturers offered steepest rises of average 2.5%.

The multi-trillion dollar foreign currency markets are currently largely unregulated (Photo: Reuters)

FX Fixing Scandal: FCA Eyes Currency Market Regulation

Multi-trillion dollar foreign currency markets largely unregulated.

Npower's Paul Massara went on BBC's Hardtalk and pledged to not give up his bonus (Photo: Screengrab picture from BBC's Hardtalk)

Will Npower's Paul Massara Now Give Up His £150,000 Bonus Please?

Npower becomes most complained about energy firm in Britain and has axed jobs despite bumper profits

Philippines’ economic planning chief Arsenio Balisacan has revealed that the reconstruction following Typhoon Haiyan may reach $5.8bn. (Photo: Reuters)

Typhoon Haiyan will Cost Philippines $5.8bn in Reconstruction [VIDEO]

Philippines' economic planning chief Arsenio Balisacan says costs of reconstruction may reach 250bn pesos.

'Crystal Methodist' Paul Flowers Scandal: Co-op Group and Board Chairman Len Wardle Resigns

Ursula Lidbetter replaces Wardle after he led the board that appointed Paul Flowers who was filmed buying drugs

The Financial Conduct Authority is delving into foreign exchange traders’ private accounts to see if they traded their own money (Photo: Reuters)

FX Fixing Scandal: FCA Investigates Private Currency Trader Accounts

The regulator is delving into foreign exchange traders' private accounts to see if they traded their own money

Co-op launched a “root and branch” review of the way it is run following the Paul Flowers drugs scandal (Photo: Co-Op)

Co-op Launches Internal Investigation into 'Crystal Methodist' Paul Flowers

Co-op launched a "root and branch" review of the way it is run following the drugs scandal.

ITV broadcasts popular dramas such as Downton Abbey. Here, Cast members of the TV drama Downton Abbey hold their award for "outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series" backstage at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los

ITV Sees 2013 Profits Boost on 2% Rise in Advertising Revenues

Downton Abbey and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here broadcaster reports continual rises in ad revenue.

According to Consumer Futures data, npower received 202 complaints per 100,000 customers between April and June this year. (Photo: Reuters)

Npower Is UK's Most Complained-About Energy Firm [VIDEO]

Big six energy company gets three times the amount of complaints of its rivals.

Libor Fixing Scandal: Rabobank Ousts Executive Sipko Schat

Dutch lender says the bank's members no longer support him

Britain’s deputy prime Nick Clegg has hinted that the rumours that the government is slapping foreign property investors with a new capital gains tax is true. (Photo: Reuters)

UK Deputy PM Nick Clegg Hints at Foreign Property Owner Tax

Chancellor refuses to confirm whether government plans new tax.

Tunisia Fights Islamist Extremism Through Education [VIDEO]

Mediterranean School of Business' dean Mahmoud Triki talks to IBTimes UK in Tunisia

Paul Flowers, ex chairman of the Co-operative Bank, is seeing help for drug taking. (Photo: Co-operative Bank).

Paul Flowers: Mark Garnier MP Asks for Regulator Grilling Over Co-op 'Crystal Methodist' Chairman

Labour Party suspends disgraced ex-bank boss and Methodist minister over drugs scandal.

World Shares Hit 6-Year High on China Economic Reform Plans [VIDEO]

China unleashed a flurry of detailed economic and social reforms on 15 November

1HQ CEO Mark Artus Q&A: Evolution of International Branding [VIDEO]

1HQ chief talks to IBTimes UK about developing branding for M&S, Tesco, Cadbury, Nestle and Nokia

Tunisia Fights Islamic Extremism Through Education

Tunisia is feeling a wave of unrest ripple through its country as a spate of suicide bombings and attempted terrorist attacks has threatened to undo fragile stability created from the Arab Spring two years ago.

British energy giant Centrica is seeking a £6m refund related to its Peterborough gas-fired power station from the HM Revenue and Customs (Photo: Reuters)

Centrica Battles HMRC for £6m Power Plant Business Rate Refund

One of the 'Big Six' seeks millions in refunds in legal battle.

Severn Trent Appoints BT's Fibre Network Tsar Liv Garfield as CEO

Garfield jumps away from telecoms to the water utility company.

HSBC Global Asset Management says reforms has reinforced confidence in the country’s economic plan (Photo: Reuters)

HSBC: China to Lead Emerging Market Rebound on Economic Reforms

HSBC Global Asset Management says reforms have reinforced confidence in the country's economic plan.

Lloyds Banking Group has sold its fund management arm Scottish Widows Investment Partnership to Aberdeen Asset Management for £660m (Photo: Reuters)

Lloyds Cashes in £660m for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Sale

Embattled part-state owned bank agrees to sell fund management arm to Aberdeen Asset Management

Quest data shows that US employees testing positive for drugs has dropped sharply since 1988 after reviewing more than 125 million urine drug tests administered from 1988 to last year. (Photo: Reuters)

US Employee Prescription Drug Use Booms as Workers Evade Positive Marijuana and Cocaine Tests

Quest Diagnostics shows workers may have gotten more sophisticated when it comes to passing drug tests

Tunisia's Fashion Wear: Beacon for Workers' Human Rights and Ethical Garment Production [VIDEO]

M&S and John Lewis garment producer's Mhedbi Mohsen says Bangladesh Rana Plaza Disaster has brought in new customers

The reform document was approved by the leaders' meeting after an initial communique revealed that the government promised to deliver "decisive" results by 2020. (Photo: Reuters)

China Unleashes Sweeping Economic and Social Reform Plans

Beijing focuses on property, welfare and tax and also tipped to abolish Labour camps after four-day summit.

Medicars assembles pick-up trucks for India’s Mahindra, as well as for Isuzu and Mitsubishi (Photo: Alfred Joyner, IBTimes UK)

Tunisia's Medicars Calls for Industry Reforms for Post Arab Spring Growth [VIDEO]

Medicars' Yassine Ben Abdallah talks to IBTimes UK about how Tunisia needs political stability to help growth

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