“Substantial agreement” on most of the elements of a post-Brexit trade deal was reached between Britain and Japan earlier this week after two days of talks. It has been reported that during the talks, moves to restrict British farm exports was resisted by UK trade secretary Liz Truss. The elements of the trade deal between…
The first Malaysian leader to be found guilty of graft on Tuesday was the country’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak. A court on Tuesday ruled that he was guilty of all seven charges of corruption brought against him in the first of several cases relating to the alleged heist of billions of dollars from state…
Majority stakes in the Chinese-owned social media phenomenon TikTok are being attempted to be taken up by United States based tech investors so that the app could ward off security concerns about it expressed the White House and avert any possible banning of the app as has been indicated by United States Secretary of State…
Growing concerns over the new and controversial national security law imposed on Hong Kong by China has forced a number of virtual private network (VPN) providers of the United States and Canada to shut down their servers in the city. VPNs are used by internet users to conceal and protect their privacy while avoiding any…
In a significant development, the twitter account of high-profile figures, including U.S tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, former U.S. President Barack Obama, among many others have been hacked and used to solicit digital currency. In a sign that marks the seriousness of…
The Chinese video sharing app TikTok was first banned and then unbanned within hours from the mobile phones of its employees by Amazon last week. The largest e-copmmerce company of the world said that the move was done by mistake. There was widespread attention for the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok by the move by…
Any request for user data from the Hong Kong law enforcement authorities will not be processed by Facebook and its messaging service WhatsApp while the company conducts an assessment of the controversial security law passed by the Chinese government and now implemented on the city. They would “pause” conducting any review of requests for information…
The “big four” accountancy firms of the United Kingdom has been asked by the regulator to make their auditing operations stricter so that there is improvement in oversight of corporate finances. Accounting scandals have in recent years caused collapse of large companies in the country such as the case of Carillion and BHS. KPMG, PwC,…
A new study that was conducted for more than a year has predicted that unless there is urgent government intervention to prevent he loss of habitat of the Australian koalas, these lovable animals will become extinct before 2050 in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. An estimate of the government that there are 36,000 koalas in…
An extension of a halt in issuing of green cards as well as a suspension of visas for foreign workers being allowed in the United States till 2020 announced by President Donald Trump. The new visa policy announced by Trump is expected to affect a high-skilled tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and top…
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