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Twitter bots get political in Malaysia
Published on 21/04/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Just weeks before Malaysia goes to the polls, automated accounts known as bots are flooding Twitter with tens of thousands of pro-government and anti-opposition messages, according to a review of the tweets by Reuters and a US digital media research institute.
Muslims do fit in, though more slowly
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/04/2018
» 'Every Continental [European] under the age of 40 -- make that 60, if not 75 -- is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe," wrote polemicist Mark Steyn in 2006. "Native populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic."
UK interior minister Amber Rudd resigns in blow to PM May
AFP, Published on 30/04/2018
» LONDON - Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd resigned Sunday, admitting she "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets, in a body blow to the government as it faces public outrage over the targeting of the so-called Windrush generation of migrants.
British PM faces reshuffle after top minister quits
AFP, Published on 30/04/2018
» LONDON: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May faced the headache of another cabinet reshuffle on Monday after interior minister Amber Rudd quit having "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets for illegal immigrants.
Why we really need globalisation
News, Koichi Hamada, Published on 02/05/2018
» From the Brexit vote to Donald Trump's election as US president to rising support for populist parties in countries like Germany and Italy, much of the electoral upheaval in Western democracies in recent years has been attributed at least partly to a backlash against globalisation. But globalisation does not deserve voters' ire.
EU unveils bigger post-Brexit budget
AFP, Published on 02/05/2018
» BRUSSELS: The EU unveiled plans Wednesday for a bigger 1.279-trillion euro budget for the seven years after Brexit, featuring a controversial move to cut funding for countries that fail to respect the rule of law.
Cambridge Analytica to close after Facebook data scandal
AFP, Published on 03/05/2018
» LONDON: Cambridge Analytica, the British marketing analytics firm, announced Wednesday that it was closing and would file for insolvency in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal.
UK eyes Southeast Asia for post-Brexit trade lift
Asia focus, Published on 07/05/2018
» The lone non-Asian trade minister at the recent Asean summit in Singapore, UK Trade Minister Greg Hands had plenty of room to make the case that Brexit won't interfere with his country's ambitious plans in the region.
German industrial orders slip further in March
AFP, Published on 07/05/2018
» FRANKFURT AM MAIN - German industrial orders fell for the third month in a row in March, official data showed Monday, disappointing the expectations of analysts who had hoped for a rebound.
EU's Barnier fires new warning on June Brexit deadline
AFP, Published on 15/05/2018
» BRUSSELS - EU negotiator Michel Barnier warned Britain Monday to resolve the issue of its post-Brexit border with Ireland by a June summit, saying there had been little movement since leaders last met in March.