STRASBOURG, Oct 4 – The Council of Europe voiced concern Tuesday at a rise in racist violence in Britain in recent years, adding that campaigning for the Brexit referendum led to a further rise in “anti-foreigner sentiment”. The Strasbourg-based Council, a human rights and democracy watchdog body separate from the EU, said
AMSTERDAM, Oct 4 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has been recognized by Juniper Research, the respected industry analyst, as a key player in the global M2M sector. This leadership position is based on Gemalto’s advanced capabilities and product offering for the industrial and consumer
HASAKEH, Oct 4 – A suicide bomber has struck a wedding in northeast Syria as the bride and groom were exchanging vows, killing 34 people and wounding dozens, the local Kurdish government said. The bomber blew himself up late Monday in the village of Tall Tawil in Hasakeh province where a Kurdish
TOKYO, Oct 4 – “Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd.”, the 100% subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) that has taken over MHI’s air conditioning & refrigeration (AC & R) business , commenced on October 1. Kaoru Kusumoto, former general manager of the AC & R division in Machinery, Equipment
HONG KONG, Oct 3 – Three people were injured Sunday after Hong Kong police fired shots to stop a knife attack on a man, in a rare case of violent street crime in one of Asia’s safest cities. Police said those wounded were two assailants and the man being attacked, and that
LONDON, Oct 3 – Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday that Britain would start the formal process for leaving the European Union by the end of March 2017. Before now May has only said that Britain would not trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty – which sets a maximum two-year clock ticking
Facebook is seeking to fill in some of the gaps in the reach of its messaging app empire, announcing today a new standalone version of its Messenger app, Messenger Lite, specifically designed for older Android devices with limited storage and for slower, data-constrained Internet connections. Idea being that not everyone in the world has
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 – Donald Trump declared a US$916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return, allowing him to legally avoid paying taxes for decades, The New York Times reported late Saturday. The sensitive issue is important because Trump has refused to release his tax records, as US presidential candidates customarily do in
Companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google continue to compete fiercely in the area of cloud services for consumers, developers and enterprises, and today Microsoft made its latest moves to lay out its bid to lead the race, while also launching a new mission to position itself as the cloud provider you
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 – Hillary Clinton said Saturday she raised a record US$154 million in September in her race for the White House against Donald Trump. In August, Clinton raised US$143 million and Trump US$90 million. It is common for campaign donations to increase as the election approaches. This year the voting
Alphabet (née Google) has been given yet another extension to file its respond to charges in Europe that it has misused the dominance of its Android mobile platform to lock out competition by promoting its own services over and above others. Reuters reported the extension today, which gives the company until the
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 2 – Facebook on Monday launched a new online “Marketplace” allowing members of the huge social network to buy and sell with each other. The new feature puts Facebook squarely in competition with local online selling platforms led by Craigslist, and offers an alternative to marketplaces like eBay. Facebook
SEPANG, Oct 2 – Five talking points from the Malaysian Grand Prix: ‘Shoey’ fits for Ricciardo Daniel Ricciardo has been knocking on the door for his fourth Formula One win, and Lewis Hamilton’s engine blow-up 15 laps from the end finally gave him the opportunity he needed. It’s been a long time
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 – Donald Trump’s campaign remained defiant Monday as the Republican presidential candidate dodged questions that he may have paid no income tax for nearly 20 years. Without admitting fault, Trump’s top allies praised their candidate’s business acumen following a bombshell report in The New York Times focusing the real estate mogul’s
BUKIT MERTAJAM, Oct 2 – A slow five-minute walk for about 300m along Jalan Alma Jaya, Bukit Mertajam, is being greeted with a pile of garbage and flies on the roadside. The dumping site has all sorts of garbage, including construction wastes, plastic, Styrofoam and full of flies, mosquitoes and insects. Taman
BIRMINGHAM, Oct 2 – Britain’s economy faces “turbulence” as it negotiates its EU exit and consumer and business confidence could go up and down like a “rollercoaster”, finance minister Philip Hammond warned on Monday. The chancellor of the Exchequer said they must expect some turbulence as they go through this negotiating process. It told this
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 2 – The Penang Chinese New Year Celebration 2016 Secretariat Person in-charged refutes the statement issued by MCA Task Force Chief, Tan Hing Teik who accused the Penang State Government has yet to settle the allocation balance pledged for Penang Chinese Clan Council. The Penang Chinese New Year
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak is committed to continue propelling Malaysia to a higher level of competitiveness, guided by the New Economic Model (NEM) announced in 2010. He said he committed to make Malaysia more competitive and he have been clear on this stand with his domestic policies.
A dramatic privacy about-face by messaging app WhatsApp this summer, in which it revealed an update to its T&Cs would for the first time allow the sharing of its user data with parent company Facebook, is getting the pair into hot water in Europe. This week Facebook was ordered to stop harvesting data on WhatsApp users in Germany by the Hamburg
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 – In a break from tradition, USA Today took a stance Friday in the upcoming presidential election, warning readers to “resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue” and reject Republican Donald Trump. The national newspaper, one of the most widely circulated in the United States, had never in its 34-year
