{"id":998012,"date":"2026-03-13T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998012"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:23:10","slug":"britain-to-tighten-investment-screening-for-water-and-semiconductor-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/britain-to-tighten-investment-screening-for-water-and-semiconductor-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain to tighten investment screening for water and semiconductor sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will refine its national security investment screening rules, including tightening oversight of sectors such as water and advanced semiconductors, the government said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Britain \u2060has \u2060laws which determine when private investment must \u200bbe referred for greater scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>Government says \u200breforms are needed to ensure the investment screening regime continues to \u200bprotect against evolving national \u2060security risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will refine its national security investment screening rules, including tightening oversight of sectors such as water and advanced semiconductors, the government said on Thursday. Britain \u2060has \u2060laws which determine when private investment must \u200bbe referred for greater scrutiny. Government says \u200breforms are needed to ensure the investment screening regime continues to \u200bprotect against evolving national \u2060security risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}