Temasek to hold internal review on its US$275m investment into bankrupted FTX
Lawrence Wong and Pritam Singh on 30 November in Singapore Parliament. SINGAPORE — Temasek Holdings will be conducting an internal review into its write-down investment of US$275 million in bankrupted cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The review will be conducted by a team within the sovereign wealth fund led by people separate from the investment team that […]
Temasek to hold internal review on its US$275m investment into bankrupted FTX
Lawrence Wong and Pritam Singh on 30 November in Singapore Parliament. SINGAPORE — Temasek Holdings will be conducting an internal review into its write-down investment of US$275 million in bankrupted cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The review will be conducted by a team within the sovereign wealth fund led by people separate from the investment team that […]
Temasek to hold internal review on its US$275m investment into bankrupted FTX
Lawrence Wong and Pritam Singh on 30 November in Singapore Parliament. SINGAPORE — Temasek Holdings will be conducting an internal review into its write-down investment of US$275 million in bankrupted cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The review will be conducted by a team within the sovereign wealth fund led by people separate from the investment team that […]
China rigged Canadian elections in 2019, says country’s top cop
Representational image. AFP Ottawa: Canadian federal police are investigating widespread interference by China in Canadian affairs, including its “democratic processes,” the nation’s top cop has said in a letter to a parliamentary committee but without detailing the allegations. The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs is looking into possible foreign interference in Canadian elections. […]
China rigged Canadian elections in 2019, says country’s top cop
Representational image. AFP Ottawa: Canadian federal police are investigating widespread interference by China in Canadian affairs, including its “democratic processes,” the nation’s top cop has said in a letter to a parliamentary committee but without detailing the allegations. The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs is looking into possible foreign interference in Canadian elections. […]
China rigged Canadian elections in 2019, says country’s top cop
Representational image. AFP Ottawa: Canadian federal police are investigating widespread interference by China in Canadian affairs, including its “democratic processes,” the nation’s top cop has said in a letter to a parliamentary committee but without detailing the allegations. The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs is looking into possible foreign interference in Canadian elections. […]
GATE 2023: IIT Kanpur cancels some international exam centres, check complete list here
Representational image. AFP The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur has released an important notice regarding the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2023 International exam centres. Candidates who registered for the aptitude exam can read the official notice by visiting the official website of IIT GATE at gate.iitk.ac.in. According to the official statement, the […]
Lawyers For Liberty: Unacceptable for Malaysia’s new govt to use police powers against PM’s critics
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Lawyers For Liberty (LFL), human rights and law reform NGO said it is unacceptable for Malaysia’s new government, which promised reform, to immediately call for police action against critics of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. “The Prime Minister holds no special status at law, and cannot lawfully call on the police to […]
Lawyers For Liberty: Unacceptable for Malaysia’s new govt to use police powers against PM’s critics
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Lawyers For Liberty (LFL), human rights and law reform NGO said it is unacceptable for Malaysia’s new government, which promised reform, to immediately call for police action against critics of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. “The Prime Minister holds no special status at law, and cannot lawfully call on the police to […]
Lapid’s critique of The Kashmir Files not new. Nazis, Soviet, India used film as State tool
Twenty million people—soldiers assigned to Nazi death squads, residents of bourgeois Berlin neighbourhoods, and every second adult living in the Third Reich—had lined up to watch the movie. The onscreen drama went like this: Lacking the money to buy his wife coronation jewels, the Duke of Württemberg turns to the unscrupulous financier, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. […]
Lapid’s critique of The Kashmir Files not new. Nazis, Soviet, India used film as State tool
Twenty million people—soldiers assigned to Nazi death squads, residents of bourgeois Berlin neighbourhoods, and every second adult living in the Third Reich—had lined up to watch the movie. The onscreen drama went like this: Lacking the money to buy his wife coronation jewels, the Duke of Württemberg turns to the unscrupulous financier, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. […]
Explained: Why the IMF chief is urging China to end COVID lockdowns
Berlin: It is time for China to move away from massive lockdowns and toward a more targeted approach to COVID-19, the head of the International Monetary Fund said days after widespread protests broke out, a change that would ease the impact to a world economy already struggling with high inflation, an energy crisis and disrupted […]
China protests: clashes spread to Guangzhou city over Covid lockdown
People in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou clashed with riot police on Tuesday night, videos on social media showed, as frustration with stringent Covid-19 rules boiled over three years into the pandemic. The clashes in the southern city marked an escalation from protests in the commercial hub of Shanghai, capital Beijing and other cities […]
China protests: clashes spread to Guangzhou city over Covid lockdown
People in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou clashed with riot police on Tuesday night, videos on social media showed, as frustration with stringent Covid-19 rules boiled over three years into the pandemic. The clashes in the southern city marked an escalation from protests in the commercial hub of Shanghai, capital Beijing and other cities […]
China Covid cases hit record high after weekend of unprecedented protest
X i Jinping has been hit by “extraordinary” civil unrest in China driven by “fear, fatigue and anger” over his zero Covid policy and lockdown restrictions. China posted another record high number of Covid infections on Monday, after an extraordinary weekend of protests across the country over restrictive coronavirus curbs, in scenes unprecedented since President […]
After Maldives, Australia denies participating in China-Indian Ocean Forum on Development Cooperation
New Delhi: After Maldives, Australia on Sunday clarified that it did not participate in the “China-Indian Ocean Forum on Development Cooperation” held on November 21. “Contrary to media reporting, no Australian Government official attended the Kunming China-Indian Ocean Forum on Development Cooperation,” tweeted Australia’s High Commissioner to India, Barry O’Farrell. China’s aid agency hosted a […]
‘You can’t cover a war from afar,’ says Swiss reporter in Ukraine
After following the first 24 hours of the Russian invasion on social media, Mercier knew she had to leave for Ukraine. DR A Kyiv correspondent for Swiss public broadcaster RTS has received two awards this autumn for her humane and unvarnished reporting on the war in Ukraine. Maurine Mercier explains her drive to confront reality. […]
News18 Afternoon Digest: G20 Proud Opportunity for India, Says PM Modi; Delhi Murder Accused Lodged in Tihar’s Cell No. 4 & Other Top Stories
Good afternoon, In today’s edition of our digest, we are covering the judicial custody given to Aaftab Poonawala in the Shraddha Murder case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat, a firsthand report of tourists stuck in Meghalaya after Mukroh Firing and more. Shraddha Murder Case: Aaftab Lodged Separately in Tihar’s Cell No. 4, Every Movement […]
PM Modi stresses ‘India must use G20 leadership to focus on global welfare’ in Mann Ki Baat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PTI New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed the 95th edition of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’. During his speech, he spoke about India’s G-20 presidency and termed it as ‘a huge opportunity for India’. He also praised the launch of the Vikram-S rocket, the first one […]
China holds its first meeting with 19 countries in Indian Ocean region without India
Representational image. News18 Beijing: China held a meeting this week with 19 countries from the Indian Ocean region in which India was conspicuously absent. The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), an organisation connected with the Chinese Foreign Ministry held a meeting of the China-Indian Ocean Region Forum on Development Cooperation on 21 November, in […]
Dear Richa Chadha, don’t shoot your mouth off: With great celebrity power comes great responsibility
Richa Chadha and her controversial tweet. Firstpost A celebrity from the film industry cannot escape the spotlight. If the person has to travel and hence has a casual ‘airport look’, getting clicked by roving photographers is inevitable. Writers on fashion follow suit, spotting a Gucci bag, a pair of Versace jeans, and a Rolex watch. […]
This Hokkaido-local curry chain serves curry so good it ought to be popular all over Japan
Seriously, who’s in charge of this place and why haven’t they expanded to the rest of Japan?! Maybe it’s because they spend so much time writing about food, but our writers know the secret to finding good food when they travel. The first thing they do is check out a convenience store to see if […]
Shanghai hit by COVID protests as anger spreads across China
Protests against China‘s heavy COVID-19 curbs spread to more cities, including the financial hub Shanghai on Sunday, nearly three years into the pandemic, with a fresh wave of anger sparked by a deadly fire in the country’s far west. The fire on Thursday that killed 10 people in a high-rise building in Urumqi, capital of […]
Major Gucci shake-up as designer steps down
In the largest creative shake-up of a fashion brand since the COVID-19 pandemic, Gucci announced Wednesday that Alessandro Michele, its creative director, was leaving the company. Michele, 49, a Rome-born designer who took over the top job in 2015, had been instrumental in transforming Gucci, seemingly overnight, from a fading symbol of noughties glamour into […]
Foxconn unrest risks iPhone shipments, weighs on Apple shares
TAIPEI, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Foxconn’s flagship iPhone plant in China is set to see a further reduction in November shipments after the latest bout of worker unrest this week, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday, as thousands of employees quit. The world’s largest Apple iPhone factory has been grappling […]
Chinese-Canadian ex-pop star Kris Wu jailed for rape
Kris Wu Photo: VCG BEIJING, CHINA — Chinese-Canadian ex-pop star Kris Wu has been jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of rape, a Chinese court said Friday. Wu originally shot to fame as a member of the K-pop boyband EXO, before leaving in 2014 to launch a successful solo career as a singer, […]
How and why Koo app has gained popularity in Brazil
Twitter is witnessing a wild ride after Tesla CEO Elon Musk took it over for a hefty $44 billion deal. The sudden high attrition rate, an upended verification system, and reinstatement of controversial users like former President Donald Trump and Kanye West have raised questions about the company’s changed work ethics, business model and future […]
iPhone shortage looms as Apple’s China factory worker revolt continues
A violent workers’ revolt at the world’s largest iPhone factory this week in central China is further scrambling Apple’s strained supply and highlighting how the country’s stringent zero-COVID policy is hurting global technology firms. The troubles started last month when workers left the factory campus in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan, […]