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YouTube HQ shooter dead, four wounded
New York Times, Published on 04/04/2018
» SAN BRUNO, CALIFORNIA: At least four people were injured, one of them critically, in a shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The shooter, who the police said was a woman, died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
14m visitors to US face social-media screening
New York Times, Published on 31/03/2018
» Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States -- an estimated 14.7 million people a year -- will be asked to submit their social-media usernames for the past five years, under proposed rules that the State Department issued Friday.
Obama said to be in talks with Netflix to produce shows
New York Times, Published on 09/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.
N.Korea to send athletes to S.Korea Olympics in breakthrough
New York Times, Published on 09/01/2018
» SEOUL: North Korea agreed on Tuesday to send athletes to February’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, a symbolic breakthrough after months of escalating tensions over the North’s rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programmes.
Orphaned Myanmar elephants blanketed against cold
New York Times, Published on 25/12/2017
» When an unexpectedly cold front from China descended on parts of Southeast Asia this past week, people in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia bundled up in coats to stave off the region’s unusual weather. But what’s an elephant to do?
Eric Schmidt to step down as Alphabet chairman
New York Times, Published on 22/12/2017
» Eric Schmidt joined Google in 2001 to provide what amounted to adult supervision for the company’s young founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. He helped take Google public in 2004 and built it into a colossus. In 2011, after being appointed executive chairman, he became a prominent emissary for the company to Washington.
Indonesia handing lengthy prison terms to gay men
New York Times, Published on 21/12/2017
» JAKARTA: Steven Handoko admits it was not his most dignified moment. Naked as the day he was born, the bookish 25-year-old had been invited on stage by one of the strippers hired for a party at the Atlantis Gym.
Trump hails 'historic' US tax reform
New York Times, Published on 21/12/2017
» WASHINGTON: The House planned to move quickly to hold a final vote on the tax bill after the Senate gave its approval early Wednesday. The House Rules Committee held an 8am (8pm Thailand time) meeting on the bill, a procedural step before the full House was set to vote later in the day.
US lawmakers pass sweeping tax bill
New York Times, Published on 20/12/2017
» WASHINGTON: Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative victory since assuming full political control, as the House and Senate voted along party lines Tuesday and into early Wednesday to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.