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Photo Rifaat al-Assad in Paris in 2011. A Spanish judge ordered the seizure of numerous properties associated with him or his family. Credit Michel Euler/Associated Press LONDON — Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, was named on Tuesday in a European money laundering investigation. A Spanish judge, José de la Mata Amaya, ordered the seizure of properties in Spain that are controlled by […]

Here is a selection of five charts that FT Markets believes are important signals for investors as the second quarter begins. 1. US equities How expensive does the US equity market look? This is perhaps the biggest question facing money managers. The answer is “very”, based on the S&P 500’s 12-month forward price-to-earnings ratio, divided by the current low level of Vix, or implied volatility, as the […]

The ‘Panama Papers‘ scandal was one of the biggest data leaks in history. But a year on from the exposé by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), it appears to be simply ‘business as usual’; as few governments have meaningfully tackled the issues of tax avoidance and evasion. Unparalleled leaks The leak was huge. It contained 11.5 million documents, and named more than 200,000 companies, 14,153 clients in […]

Pegasus spyware is used to monitor activities of individual targets. Image: iStock A new version of one of the most sophisticated forms of mobile spyware has been discovered, and this time it’s being used to spy on Android users. Made public last summer, the Pegasus mobile spyware was used by a nation state to monitor iPhones belonging to activists in the Middle East. Dubbed Trident, three separate […]

Tiny ‘black holes’ on a silicon wafer make for a new type of photodetector that could move more data at lower cost around the world or across a datacenter. (via WSJ)

A company in Sweden is tapping on a relatively new technology to give their employees the ability to do things with just a wave of the hand. The technology also has the potential to track what employees do. Swedish company Epicenter offers to implant its workers with microchip the size of a grain of rice. Injecting the microchip that functions as swipe card for opening doors and […]

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Head and neck scans are one of the areas where Google’s DeepMind will be finetuning its health skills. Image: AKO Kung, Getty Images/iStockphoto Healthcare has always been seen as rich pickings for artificial intelligence: when IBM first decided to kit out Watson for use in the enterprise, its earliest commercial test was in cancer care. There are a number of reasons why health and artificial intelligence might […]

For traders trying to decipher if Opec’s output cuts are finally tightening the oil market, the evidence may lie out at sea. Data provided to the Financial Times show that crude oil being shipped over the oceans or stored on supertankers has dropped by as much as 16 per cent since the beginning of the year, in a signal that supplies could be dropping faster than many […]

PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Embassy in Moscow, Russia is in close contact with the Malaysian community and local authorities at St Petersburg to ascertain no Malaysian is involved in yesterday’s explosion which rocked the city’s underground train. “At present, local authorities are still in the midst of identifying the victims,” said Wisma Putra in a statement here today. It said the explosion took place specifically at the Sennaya […]

Saudi Arabia posted its first rise in non-oil exports for eight months in January, according to latest data released by the country’s Central Department of Statistics and Information. The value of Saudi Arabia’s imports shrank 11.6 percent to SR43.2 billion from a year earlier in January while non-oil exports rose by 10.3 percent to more than SR14 billion over the same period.                Non-oil exports traditionally account for […]

KINSHASA, Congo — On Oct. 4, 2016, Etienne Tshisekedi made his final address to a crowd gathered in the courtyard of his party’s headquarters. The longtime leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s opposition was visibly frail, and the speech, slow and hesitant, lasted only three minutes. But the old man still managed to rev up his followers, many of whom strained to hear from the […]

Knowledge+™ provides Saudi leaders the skills to lead their own communications teams 04 April 2017Knowledge+™ provides Saudi leaders the skills to lead their own communications teams Al Riyadh – Leading public relations and communications agency Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) has launched Knowledge+™, a communications training academy created as a solution to the talent development needs of the Middle East and North Africa region. Bridging the skills gap through […]

Facebook will cooperate with the South Korean government to help mentor promising local virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) companies and expand them globally, the social network giant has said. Facebook will work together with Korea Innovation Center (KIC) and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), both managed by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, to find local digital content companies […]

By Nichola Saminather | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Asian shares inched lower on Tuesday as caution reigned ahead of a potentially tense meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this week. The dollar lost ground after investors sold stocks overnight and looked to safe havens as political uncertainty overshadowed positive U.S. economic data and solid growth in global manufacturing. European markets were also […]

Imagination Technologies lost more than half its market value in a single day this week when the chip designer revealed that Apple, its largest customer, was developing its own version of the graphical processing units in which the UK-based group has specialised. Apple’s initiative to make a GPU, however, should not have come as such as surprise to investors. It follows several months of intensive recruitment by […]

Benjamin J. Rhodes, who was a foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter: “Kushner in Iraq before the National Security Advisor or Secretary of State. Totally normal.” Continue reading the main story That was not the only way the trip broke with usual government practice: On Sunday evening, as word of Mr. Kushner’s trip began to spread, the White House incorrectly told reporters on […]

April 4, 2017 by: Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong Tuesday 06.00 BST Overview Asian bonds rallied on Tuesday and yield on US Treasuries dipped to a five-week low ahead of key US events later in the week, while sentiment on South Africa’s rand soured further after S&P downgraded the country’s credit rating. Hot topic The yield, which moves inversely to price, on 10-year US Treasuries rose 1 […]

HealthEngine announced on Tuesday that it has raised AU$26.6 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia India, who is joining existing investors Telstra Ventures and Seven West Media on the company’s board. Alium Capital and some high net worth family offices participated in the round, as did existing investors including Go Capital, Lux Group managing director Adam Schwab, and founder of Carsales Greg Roebuck. The […]

One year ago today a group of more than 300 journalists in 79 countries sent a powerful message to the corrupt: you can no longer hide. The publication of the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016 was a shot heard around the world against corruption. Suddenly one of the most closely held secrets of the biggest criminals was revealed – where and how they hide their money. […]

M1 has introduced two mobile plans tailored for business users as it looks to increase its service offerings for the local enterprise market. The Singapore telco announced the M1 Enterprise Mobile 6 and 12 plans, offering unlimited local messaging and voice calls, and 6GB or 12GB data allowance that could be used locally as well as in 56 global markets. These countries were selected based on their […]

An American of Iranian descent arrested in Iran in July and sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment on dubious charges has been released on bail after he went on a hunger strike, rights activists reported on Monday. The American, Robin Shahini, who is 46 or 47, was released about two weeks ago, just before the start of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, according to the Center for Human […]

By Greg Torode and Michael Martina | HONG KONG/BEIJING HONG KONG/BEIJING China is steadfastly opposed to the deployment of advanced U.S. anti-missile radars in South Korea because it does not know whether the defences, intended for North Korean missiles, are capable of tracking and countering Beijing’s own nuclear programme, experts say. Beijing’s resistance to the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) anti-missile system put up south of […]

(Image: AOL) When Verizon completes its acquisition of Yahoo’s core business, the merger of AOL and Yahoo will result in a new parent company called Oath. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong on Monday tweeted an image of Oath’s logo, with the caption: “Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017.” Business Insider first reported the name change. “In the summer of 2017, you can bet we will […]

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