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China passes tough new online privacy law
AFP, Published on 20/08/2021
» BEIJING: China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting sensitive personal data Friday, as the country faces an uptick in internet scams and Beijing targets tech giants hoovering up personal data.
Complaints grow in China against Tesla autos
AFP, Published on 22/04/2021
» BEIJING - Electric carmaker Tesla is facing a backlash in China just as local competitors seek to challenge the US-based company's share of the Asian giant's market.
Coronavirus generates rash of swindlers in Italy
AFP, Published on 26/02/2020
» MILAN - From jacking-up the prices of disinfectant gel to scammers posing as Red Cross volunteers, Italy's battle to contain its coronavirus outbreak has been a gift to grifters of various stripes.
Big week for Big Tech as quarterly earnings loom
AFP, Published on 27/01/2019
» WASHINGTON - Big Tech firms face a critical test in the coming days with quarterly updates that may offer clues on whether the world's largest companies are seeing growth or retrenchment ahead.
Second Swiss canton votes for 'burqa ban'
AFP, Published on 23/09/2018
» GENEVA: A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional "burqa ban", after voters in St. Gallen emphatically voted Sunday to prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces.
Record 207 environmental activists killed last year
AFP, Published on 24/07/2018
» PARIS - More than 200 environmental activists were murdered last year as government-sponsored killings linked to lucrative projects by vast agriculture multinationals soared, a global rights watchdog warned on Tuesday.
EU parliament overhauls Internet data protection rules
AFP, Published on 15/04/2016
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - The European Parliament on Thursday adopted for the first time a single set of rules for the 28-nation EU to protect the privacy of people using the Internet.
Charlie Hebdo 'feels alone' in its fight to poke fun at the world
AFP, Published on 04/01/2016
» PARIS - Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly propelled to global notoriety when its cartoonists were shot dead by jihadist gunmen a year ago on Thursday, fears it has been abandoned in its struggle to "laugh at everything", one of the survivors of the attack said.
China's debt-fuelled growth outlives fallen Bo
AFP, Published on 28/08/2013
» Fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai may have been ritually consigned to political history at his trial this week but the country's leadership has yet to abandon the debt-fuelled economic policies he epitomised.
Hard disk from shipwreck may shed light on captain's role
AFP, Published on 21/01/2012
» Divers salvaged Saturday a hard disk from Italy's capsized cruise ship with video footage that could shed light on the captain's actions, as another body was pulled from the wreckage.