BEIJING: China’s cyberspace regulator on Wednesday (Sep 14) proposed a series of amendments to the country’s cybersecurity law including raising the size of fines for some violations, saying that it wanted to do so to improve coordination with other new laws. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said, for example,Continue Reading
KABUL: The Taliban are “looking into” a video circulating on social media that appears to show its fighters executing captured members of an Afghan insurgent group, a government spokesman said Wednesday (Sep 14). The National Resistance Front (NRF), a nascent group operating mainly out of the Panjshir Valley, said theContinue Reading
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan for a state visit on Wednesday (Sep 14), Chinese state media reported. It is Xi’s first trip to a foreign nation since China all but shut its borders due to COVID-19. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s office showed him greeting Xi at theContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan is looking at Ukraine’s ways of communicating its message to the outside world at a time of conflict, by making use of tools such as satellites and deploying humour, the digital minister said on Wednesday (Sep 14). China’s war games and blockade drills around Taiwan last month, followingContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government will procure new COVID-19 vaccines which are tailored to fight new pressures of the virus, mentioned Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. The vaccines will be administered free of charge to high-risk groups such as the elderly and those with serious comorbidities, the Malaysian media cited MrContinue Reading
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: The bomb killed the former head of a pro-government militia and seven others in northwestern Pakistan, officials stated Wednesday (Sep 14), in an attack claimed by the local Taliban. The blast happened Wednesday night in Kabal town in the Swat valley, which was mostly ruled by the PakistanContinue Reading
TAIPEI: Taipei offender China on Wed (Sep 14) of pressuring organisers of the Malaysian trade occasion into barring the Taiwanese beauty king waving the island’s flag on stage. Miss Taiwan Kao Man-jung was photographed crying because other contestants in a beauty pageant made an appearance on stage during Tuesday’s openingContinue Reading
Diniz said the financial markets had responded highly to the data, resulting in another strong gratitude of the US money against other foreign currencies. He also noted that oil benchmark Brent crude price fell by 0. 08 per cent to US$93. 10 per barrel. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Tengku ZafrulContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea levied millions of dollars in fines on Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms for personal privacy law violations, authorities said on Wednesday (Sep 14), as Meta considers battling the decision in court. Inside a statement, the Personal Information Protection Commission mentioned it fined Search engines 69. 2 billionContinue Reading
TOKYO: Japan’s central bank on Wednesday (Sep 14) conducted an operation often seen as an precursor to foreign currency intervention, local media said, as the yen continues to crater against a strengthening buck. The financial daily Nikkei and other local mass media said the Bank of Japan (BoJ) performed aContinue Reading