China looks to increase penalties under its cybersecurity law

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

Taliban ‘looking into’ video showing executions

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

Taiwan says beauty queen barred from waving flag in Malaysia

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

Malaysia launches De Rantau to accelerate digital economy

 Programme set to benefit both local talents, international nomadsTo position Malaysia as preferred digital nomad hub in Asean The communications and multimedia ministry (K-KOMM) has launched DE Rantau, the programme aimed at creating Malaysia as the favored digital nomad hub to boost digital re-homing and promote digital professional mobility and tourism…Continue Reading

Thai court to decide on PM Prayut’s tenure this month

The court must decide if the eight years ought to include Prayut’s time since leader of the military administration he installed after toppling the Pheu Thai govt. A number of his supporters claim the eight many years should be counted after 2017, when a new constitution took effect, or evenContinue Reading

Falling FX reserves herald Asia financial crisis 2.0

Asian currency banknotes interspersed with US dollars. Photo: iStock/Getty Images.

TOKYO – Few narratives spook Asia more than word of trouble in Thailand – a lot more so when foreign-exchange reserves are involved. It was Bangkok’s devaluation in July 1997 that put in place the Asian financial crisis. As foreign-exchange supplies ran out, the government and Bank of Asia had no choice but to discard the […]

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