BERLIN Germany will need a new economic strategy geared toward Asia should the new U.S. administration start a trade war with China, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday, warning against protectionism hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in. “I think we have to prepare for a rough ride,” Gabriel said in an interview with the public broadcaster ZDF, in the first official German reaction to […]
A driver sits in an Uber self-driving car in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 13, 2016 Evangelists for driverless cars see a bright future coming down the road: thousands of lives saved, countless driving hours freed up, cityscapes transformed with traffic jams vanquished. But the new technology also threatens millions of jobs and raises a slew of ethical dilemmas—prospects that were on the minds of business chiefs and […]
British investigators have opened “fresh lines of inquiry” into bribery and corruption at several companies, thanks to evidence gathered in a four-year investigation into illegal behaviour at Rolls-Royce. Ben Morgan, joint head of bribery and corruption at the Serious Fraud Office, told the Financial Times that information collected on a network of corrupt middlemen operating on behalf of Rolls-Royce and other companies was being pieced together “not […]
Donald Trump is to be sworn in as president in Washington on Friday, taking over from Barack Obama. Highlights of the day: SWEARING-IN Donald Trump is to be sworn in at middday (1700 GMT), setting the country on an uncertain path at home and abroad. PROTESTERS AND SUPPORTERS Protesters scuffle with police as liberal activists attempt to block thousands of supporters at the inauguration. Trump supporters dance […]
[Most recent updates: January 19, 2017] As we enter 2017, Windows 10 is approaching its second birthday. In keeping with the operating system’s “Windows as a service” design philosophy, Windows 10 users will soon receive a third major update. That’s an unprecedented rate of change, especially if you’ve grown accustomed to upgrades that arrive every three years or so. If you have questions about installing (or reinstalling) […]
BERLIN There is no reason to speculate about a return to the Group of Eight (G8) meetings that included Russia, a spokesman for the German government said on Friday. Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said on Tuesday that Russia was an important international partner and world leaders should consider inviting it back to the annual summit of major industrialised nations. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Chancellor […]
Kabir Mulchandani is a hands-on developer. While he may not be laying bricks, the SKAI Holdings CEO forwent his air-conditioned office in Downtown Dubai for an often stinking hot construction site on the Palm Jumeirah for the two years that it took for his flagship $1.2 billion hotel to be built. It was only in November that he finally walked offsite when the Viceroy Dubai Palm Jumeirah […]
“Comeback is a good word, man,” noted the actor Mickey Rourke, after portraying a washed-up wrestler led to a career renaissance. Could 2017 be the year when stockpickers can say the same thing? The post-financial crisis environment has been unkind to active investing, especially in equities, with most portfolio managers unable to beat their benchmarks even before costs. That has accelerated the seismic investor shift towards cheap, […]
PETALING JAYA, Jan 20 (MySinchew) — Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has in a letter dated January 13 rejected PAS’ application to hold the RUU355 rally at Dataran Merdeka on February 18. PAS deputy president cum RUU355 rally organizing chairman Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said in statement today that the party would appeal against the DBKL decision and hoped the rally could be held peacefully there. He […]
As previous reports have suggested, Samsung is officially nearing a public shrift, particularly about the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco of yesteryear. It might finally give a closure to the company’s prolonged strain, which was caused by numerous of random Note 7 explosions. Galaxy Note Probe Findings Samsung will hold a press conference detailing the cause behind the explosions, alongside a “quality enhancement plan,” reports say. The event will […]
TAIPEI Taiwan aspires to create a “new era” of peace with China, which should set aside the baggage of history and have positive dialogue, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said in a letter to Pope Francis, adding military action cannot resolve problems. The issue of self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan has shot to the top of the international agenda since U.S. President-elect Donald Trump broke with decades of […]
Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has said that despite remaining “very concerned” about the use of retained telecommunications data in some civil cases, which is currently being reviewed by government, the Labor party would not rule it out. The data retention legislation, passed by the Australian government in March 2015 thanks to the votes from Labor, came into effect in October 2015 and sees customers’ call records, location […]
The new UAE fire and life safety code is expected to be released on January 22 – but it will not be retrospective. Considering that upgrading the code was made more urgent by the alarming string of fires in existing residential buildings and the realisation that more than 1,000 buildings in the UAE still have a form of external cladding that is at high risk of rapidly […]
When it comes to bare-knuckle political lobbying, 12-year-old Claudia Conway is a chip off the old block. Today her mother, Kellyanne Conway, the Republican pollster credited with turning round Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, will be celebrating her 50th birthday at the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. As his special counsellor, Conway is looking forward to life as the most powerful woman in the […]
ISLAMABAD: Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) claimed on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had cleared himself in the Panama Papers case. They accused Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan of being involved in money laundering and tax evasion and misleading the parliament through his misstatement about his properties in London and Islamabad. “After today’s argument by his lawyer, the prime minister has cleared himself […]
An extraordinary moment has arrived in the evolution of the internet. For all the transformation that has occurred over the 20+ years since the arrival of the World Wide Web and for the billions of people whose economic, civic and social circumstances have been improved, most people remain without internet connections. Residing in every country, these unconnected billions still wait for affordable meaningful access to this essential […]
PALO ALTO, Calif. With monetary policy still modestly accommodative, the U.S. central bank should continue to raise interest rates slowly to keep jobs plentiful and inflation low, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday. “I think that allowing the economy to run markedly and persistently “hot” would be risky and unwise,” Yellen said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. […]
Samsung and LG will utilize thermal pipes for their respective flagship devices, which are due for release this year, a new report says. This technology will allow the devices not to overheat, which is a situation Samsung is attempting to avoid, lest it springs up a brand-new debacle. LG had already confirmed that it’ll outfit the LG G6 with heat pipes to prevent undesirable and possibly life-threatening incidents where […]
The body of a girl is found in woods outside “a little hole in the wall” Swiss village. Matthäi, an inspector in the Zurich cantonal police, is reluctant to take on the case: it is his last afternoon in the job and one of his last days in the country before he embarks on an overseas posting in Jordan. Nevertheless, he begins to investigate and is soon […]
Lawmakers, government officials, and aid workers are bracing themselves for a broad offensive from President-elect Donald Trump against federal programs that support family planning and gender equality around the world. As one of his first acts in the Oval Office, the Republican president-elect plans to restore the “Mexico City policy” as soon as Sunday, a congressional staffer told Foreign Policy. Also known as the “global gag rule,” […]
Submitted by Peter Schiff via Euro Pacific Capital, There is much we don’t know about how the Trump presidency will play out. Will the Wall get built? Who will pay for it? Will it have at least some fencing? Will repeal and replace happen at exactly the same time? Will Trump throw a ceremonial switch? Will there be a Trump National Golf Course in Sochi? It’s anyone’s […]
SINGAPORE, 20 Jan 2017: Singapore will withdraw its Reciprocal Road Charge if Malaysia subsequently withdraws its Road Charge, or implements it in a non-discriminatory way, says the republic’s Ministry of Transport (MOT). MOT described the ‘non-discriminatory way’ as Malaysia should implement its road charge at all of its land borders, at an equal cost and on all non-Malaysian-registered cars. “We have a long-standing policy of matching any levy, tolls […]
Seeing, for many viewers, is believing. But to really “understand” requires explanation and context. That is a key role journalists fill. When you’re interviewing a person, you want to capture more than the interview. Here are some tips for b-roll and other ways to add context to your story. Capture as much video of a person as you can before the interview. The more you know, the […]
Donald Trump has chosen Woody Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets American football team and veteran Republican political donor, as his ambassador to Britain. Speaking to Republicans at a lunch in Washington ahead of his inauguration on Friday, Mr Trump revealed that he had chosen the owner of the sports team as ambassador, as he kept his penchant for announcing appointments of his team […]
