A memorandum of understanding signed between the Department of Business here and its Chinese counterpart on boosting technology links between the two countries has not been ensnared by the trade war between President Trump’s White House and China, which involves allegations against China’s Huawei tech giant, the Government has said.

The introduction of a gambling ban is a necessary step to protect GAA players, according to the GAA's Community and Health manager Colin Regan.

The number of court applications regarding children in care significantly rose last year, even though the number of children in the care system remained relatively static.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan shot down a request by a US law firm for a closed and exclusive sale of Nama’s €5.7bn Northern loan book, after Sammy Wilson, the North’s finance minister, forwarded the company’s request to him and said it had introduced him to interested investors.

Today is ‘D-Day’ for Greece as the eurogroup wait to receive and evaluate proposals from the Tsipras government for a third bailout programme.

A landmark ground-sharing deal between Blackrock College RFC and Cuala GAA club could be the start of a new trend according to one of the people behind the deal.

Labour ministers Eamon Gilmore and Pat Rabbitte are “technically correct” that the agreement with the troika is to reach a 5.1% budget deficit target by 2014, but it will come down to a “game of poker” whether the Government will be allowed ease up on the €3.1bn in consolidation planned for October’s budget, according to UCD economics professor Karl Whelan.

The Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, and his British counterpart, Edward Davey, will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding allowing Ireland to export wind-generated electricity to Britain.

Four Horticultural Development Company (HDC) postgraduate studentships and one Teagasc Walsh Fellowship are available for academic institutions to apply for.

It could take up to a week to form the new Greek government, but the impact of the French elections will be felt immediately in the EU.

Tomorrow is the start of a critical few weeks forEurope when the fate of Greece, the euro and the weaker eurozone countries could well change for ever.

THE full €3 billion of proceeds from the sale of state assets should go towards job creation, Fianna Fáil has said.

A Seán Mulryan-controlled house-building firm that recorded annual revenues of almost €100 million at the height of the building boom had a turnover of €84,734 last year.

LET’S hear it for the imperial forces exercising their will on the country.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork has defended the spending of public money on a nine-day mission to China to attract high-spending Chinese tourists.

THE state will be forced to sell off more than €2 billion of state assets by the troika when they finish their latest assessment of whether the country is meeting its bailout conditions, Labour Minister Pat Rabbitte has said.

Exploration group Tullow Oil today said total revenue for the first half of 2011 is expected to be a record $1.05bn (€725m), up from $486m (€335m) for the same period last year.

Tullow Oil has announced the sale of interests in its Ugandan operations to France's Total and Chinese group CNOOC for $2.9bn (€2.05bn).

Cork: A formal agreement signed between UCC and Nigeria is expected to lead to joint collaboration in research and the delivery of education programmes.

Manchester City are set to sign a three-year sponsorship deal with Middle East telecommunications giant Etisalat.

A strike in India's Bollywood film and TV industry is over after executives agreed to implement better pay and working conditions for staff.

A controversial ruling which dealt a major blow to the British government’s anti-terror policy was upheld by the Court of Appeal today.

BETFAIR, the world's leading betting exchange, has agreed to pay 10% of its gross profit on Irish racing directly to Horse Racing Ireland.

Irish racing is to benefit by more than four million euro under a new deal with an internet betting exchange, it emerged today.

A NEW agreement between Britain and Ireland will make it easier to track and monitor sex offenders.

Mr Don Moore, chairman of the Irish Exporters Association (IEA) Asia Trade Forum, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gansu Province of China to provide a business-to-business platform to assist exporters to effectively penetrate the Chinese market of Gansu.