Pressure on May as Tories at war over Brexit plan
London, Feb. 4: British Prime Minister Theresa May was under mounting pressure Sunday to take sides in the Conservative Party’s civil war over Brexit, as a new round of talks between Britain and the European Union is set to begin.
Since becoming Prime Minister in 2016, May has walked a fine line between two feuding factions in her party: those who want a clean break, even if it means trade barriers with Europe, and those who want to keep Britain’s economy closely aligned to the 28nation EU.
Sunday’s newspapers teemed with allegations of plots against May by “hard Brexit” rivals including foreign secretary Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees- Mogg, head of the pro- Brexit European Reform Group in the British Parliament.
The Sunday Times claimed pro- Brexit lawmakers are prepared to topple May if she tries to compromise and keep Britain in the EU’s tarifffree customs union.
They accuse treasury chief Philip Hammond, who favors a “soft Brexit,” of trying to block Britain’s EU exit.
B r e x i t - b a c k i n g Conservative legislator Bernard Jenkin urged May to rein in Singapore, Feb. 4: A firstofits- kind English- Tamil glossary with over 4,000 common English terms and their corresponding Tamil words has been launched in Singapore to help translate public communication materials to the Indian language.
Tamil is Singapore’s fourth official language along with English, Chinese and Malay.
The 200- page glossary contains a glossary in alphabetical order, a compilation of names of government organisations, as well as lists of educational terms and titles of statutes, the Sunday Times reported.
The glossary was produced by the Tamil Resource Panel under the National Translation Committee ( NTC) in collaboration with the Tamil Language Council, the Ministry of Communications and Information ( MCI) said in a statement on Saturday.
It aims to be a guide for the practitioners of the Tamil language, including the media, teachers, students and government agencies who need to translate public communication materials to the Tamil language.
The NTC has also identified a list of experienced translators and vetters for government agencies to improve vetting of Tamil translations.