NEW TAIPEI CITY / AP Commercial fishing boat owners in Taiwan, one of the world’s biggest seafood exporters, face strict rules and potential fines under a new law aimed at preventing overfishing and protecting migrant crewmembers who work far at sea with little oversight. The Distant Water Fisheries Act, which takes effect Jan. 15, 2017, comes amid growing pressure …

  Birmingham / AFP Prime Minister Theresa May threw down the Brexit gauntlet to Brussels on Wednesday in a speech calling for “maximum freedom” in Europe’s single market despite a backlash against her hard line on immigration. May’s address to the Conservative party conference came as the pound plunged on currency markets and amid growing criticism of proposals to make …

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May’s government has ruled out paying contributions to the European Union budget to allow British companies access to the single market, according to a senior aide to Brexit Secretary David Davis, who gave the most specific outline yet of the U.K.’s “red lines” in the coming negotiations to leave the EU. The government’s Brexit department, …