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Vietnamese cannabis farmers getting Brits high
AFP, Published on 15/10/2019
» HAIPHONG, Vietnam: Holed up alone in a suburban British house thousands of miles from home, cannabis farmer Cuong Nguyen spent months carefully nurturing his plants, one of thousands of Vietnamese migrants working in the UK's multi-billion dollar marijuana industry.
US military struggles to weed out soldiers with far-right ties
AFP, Published on 26/09/2019
» WASHINGTON - The arrest of a US soldier with far-right sympathies who is suspected of plotting an attack on American soil to spark "chaos" has highlighted a challenge for the Pentagon: purging its ranks of extremists.
Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content
AFP, Published on 24/09/2019
» UNITED NATIONS, US: Social media companies led by Facebook said Monday they were ramping up an industry body that aims to weed out extremist content, seeking to put procedures in place globally on how to handle crises.
Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content
AFP, Published on 24/09/2019
» UNITED NATIONS: Tech companies led by Facebook on Monday joined world leaders in ramping up an industry body to weed out extremist content online, giving it a permanent staff.
Big Tech's big earnings week overshadowed by political backlash
AFP, Published on 24/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: A big earnings week for Big Tech firms is being overshadowed by the heated political environment that is turning up the pressure on giants Facebook, Google and Amazon as their profits and dominance grow.
Amid privacy firestorm, Facebook curbs research tool
AFP, Published on 14/06/2019
» WASHINGTON: Facebook has curbed access to a controversial feature allowing searches of the vast content within the social network -- a tool which raised privacy concerns but was also used for research and investigative journalism.
Monsanto ordered to pay $2 bn in new Roundup trial
AFP, Published on 14/05/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO - A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion damages to a couple that sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.
France probes alleged Monsanto files on opinion makers
AFP, Published on 11/05/2019
» PARIS - France has opened an preliminary enquiry into alleged illegal files put together for US pesticides maker Monsanto on the views and pliability of hundreds of high-profile figures and media outlets.
Facebook leads Myanmar police to weed-growing Americans
AFP, Published on 25/04/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near Mandalay.
Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller contributed to US man's cancer: jury
AFP, Published on 20/03/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO - The weedkiller Roundup was a "substantial factor" in the cancer of a US man who developed a lump in his throat after decades of spraying his garden -- the second major legal defeat to agrochemical giant Monsanto in a year.