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By Toby Sterling and Joshua Franklin | AMSTERDAM/ZURICH AMSTERDAM/ZURICH Swiss bank Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) has been dragged into yet more tax evasion and money laundering investigations, after a tip-off to Dutch prosecutors about tens of thousands of suspect accounts triggered raids in five countries. Coordinated raids began on Thursday in the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, France and Australia, the Dutch office for financial crimes prosecution (FIOD) said on […]

WASHINGTON The United States on Friday sanctioned 11 North Koreans and one North Korean company for their links to the country’s weapons programs, banks and commodities trade, the U.S. Treasury said. Treasury said the individuals sanctioned were working as agents of North Korea’s government in Russia, China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide financial support or help procure weapons for previously sanctioned companies. “Today’s sanctions are aimed at […]

If binge-watching Netflix movies and TV shows is your forte, you could get paid for it if you’re also good with languages and translations. Netflix is looking for people to help with translating subtitles and it launched a new program called Hermes, designed to address the challenge of finding good subtitle translators in different countries worldwide. Help Create Netflix Subtitles Through Hermes, Netflix wants to find collaborators who will […]

ABU DHABI // Since she won the Genes in Space competition earlier in this year, school pupil Alia Al Mansoori’s life has been transformed. From meeting Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed at the Sea Palace, to training to be an ambassador at Expo 2020, fine-tuning her experiment and attending school, Alia’s schedule is busier than it has ever been. In a national competition, which challenged pupils to come […]

LONDON Global food crises worsened significantly in 2016 and conditions look set to deteriorate further this year in some areas with an increasing risk of famine, a report said on Friday. “There is a high risk of famine in some areas of north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen because of armed conflict, drought and macro-economic collapse,” the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) said. FSIN, which is […]

By Isabel Coles | HASSAN SHAM CAMP, Iraq HASSAN SHAM CAMP, Iraq United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday called on the international community to increase aid to help people fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul which government forces have been battling to retake from Islamic State. Iraqi forces have seized back most of the country’s second-largest city from the Sunni hardline group in a massive […]

31 March 2017 MARC has affirmed its AAAIS rating on TTM Sukuk Berhad’s (TTM SPV) RM600.0 million Sukuk Murabahah with a stable outlook. The outstanding sukuk amounts to RM500 million. TTM SPV is a funding vehicle for the second phase of the Trans Thailand-Malaysia project (TTM Project Phase II), consisting of two gas pipelines between the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA) and the industrial city of Rayong […]

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One of the few regrets of Vint Cerf, who is often referred to as the ‘father of the Internet’, is the fact that encryption using public cryptography was not baked in the original ARPANET design. While the early Internet was meant to meet a number of requirements such as resilience and openness, encryption was not one of them. Some of this was because of the high cost […]

DUBAI // Children in the UAE are at low risk from the measles outbreak sweeping southern Europe thanks to a stringent national immunisation programme, doctors said. This week, the World Health Organisation warned that the disease was spreading fast wherever immunisation coverage had dropped, and particularly in Italy and Romania. In January, Italy reported more than 200 cases, while Romania reported more than 3,400 cases and 17 […]

Future of manufacturing requires strong SME sector, HE Saif Al Hajeri tells delegates Daylight Programme has positive impact on females working in manufacturing sector Partnership with universities has helped develop technologies which UAE can export Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 30, 2017 HE Saif Al Hajeri, the CEO of Tawazun Economic Council & Tawazun Holding, told the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit, taking place at the […]

The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has gone to tender to find a provider to develop a package to help Australian small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) understand and tackle cybersecurity. The department is after a supplier to design, develop, and deliver cybersecurity-focused materials for business advisors to motivate Australian SMEs, while still adhering to their responsibility under the Business Evaluation (BE) process — a service under the Business […]

By Cynthia Kim and Ju-min Park | SEOUL SEOUL A South Korean court on Friday approved a warrant to arrest ousted president Park Geun-hye, the country’s first democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office, on accusations of bribery and abuse of power. Park can be held in a cell for up to 20 days while she is investigated over allegations that she colluded with a […]

BuzzFeed is closing its in-house, open-source innovation lab in October after two years of experimentation at the crossroads of technology and media. BuzzFeed’s Open Lab for Journalism, Technology, and the Arts, which is housed at BuzzFeed’s San Francisco bureau, will wind down in October after the current fellowship class finishes its work, BuzzFeed San Francisco Bureau Chief Mat Honan wrote in a note to employees obtained by […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 30, 2017 The award-winning African Utility Week (www.African-Utility-Week.com ), taking place from 16-18 May in Cape Town, will showcase how the continent is coming up with innovative, home-grown solutions to its energy and water challenges and how these are creating exciting and lucrative opportunities for utilities and industry suppliers alike. Experts from respected partners in the industry such as the World Bank, […]

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has issued its first community-­service sentence to a young man for reckless driving, hitting a pedestrian by accident and putting the lives of bystanders in danger. This sentence was in line with a recent update to the UAE’s federal penal code. No specifics were given regarding the length of this specific sentence, but according to high-­level details regarding community service, it will […]

For a US$2,000-a-night (Dh7,345) trip to the land of happiness, I’m a little surprised by the “assumption of risk and limitation of liability” statement my tour operator, Amanresorts, insists I sign before proceeding with my Bhutan itinerary. “I understand that I am undertaking travel to a remote geographical area in an undeveloped country where, among other things, a sense of urgency, attention to detail, standards of quality, […]

Authored by Konstantin Richter via Politico.eu, Last weekend, European leaders gathered in Rome for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. They discussed, not for the first time, how to get the EU back on track. And they told each other they are still committed to the Union and believe in its future. (We’ve heard that one before, too.) But let’s just suppose that, when the […]

By Byron Kaye and Jeremy Wagstaff | SYDNEY/SINGAPORE SYDNEY/SINGAPORE The big data company credited with helping Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency has registered a company in Australia and plans to meet the country’s ruling conservative Liberal Party next week, according to documents and a government official. Cambridge Analytica, which has also said its “psychographic” methods helped the successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, […]

29 March 2017 Doha – Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is excited to announce two of the keynote speakers for this year’s Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare who will offer delegates a very different perspective on healthcare provision. One of the keynote speakers is a life-long patient, Ms. Tiffany Christensen, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six months old. At 12 […]

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for March 30, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Ellen Fortini rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi Family fun Yas […]

Bank of Queensland (BoQ) has announced its results for the first half of the 2017 financial year, reporting a 6 percent year-on-year drop in statutory net profit after tax to AU$161 million. Interim cash earnings after tax for the six-month period came in at AU$175 million, down 2 percent on the prior corresponding period. For the six months to February 28, 2017, BoQ reported AU$252 million in […]

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The general public truly lives in two separate worlds. We have the world of the mainstream media, popular culture and political rhetoric; a world which constantly and desperately seeks to twist or destroy any legitimate measure of reality, leading people into a frenzied fog.   Then, we have the world of concrete facts; an ugly, brutal world that upsets many people […]

Researchers have devised a novel supramolecular strategy to introduce tunable 1D periodic potentials upon self-assembly of ad hoc organic building blocks on graphene, opening the way to the realization of hybrid organic-inorganic multilayer materials with unique electronic and optical properties. (via WSJ)

Most people will tell you that where you stay on vacation doesn’t matter, that it’s the city that counts. I’ve unlearned this in my travels, so much so that I’ll pick a city to visit based on the place I can stay. How you experience a city has absolutely everything to do with the place you inhabit, particularly when you travel solo and are left to your […]

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