New frameworks for sharing data to be used by artificial intelligence (AI) tools should be developed to help grow AI in the UK, a government-commissioned review has recommended.
Anti-Chinese? Backlash and praise for new Jakarta governor’s racially tinged speech
The new governor of Indonesia’s capital faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday for remarks in his inauguration speech that some residents and politicians warned could stoke ethnic and religious tension in the Southeast Asian country.
Anies Baswedan, a former education minister, said in a speech only hours after he was sworn in on Monday that “pribumi” (native or indigenous Indonesians) should take back control of the country from “colonial” influences.
His…
UK courts did not breach man’s right to reputation when dismissing his defamation claims, rules human rights court
Courts in the UK did not breach their obligation to protect a budding politician’s right to respect for his reputation when it dismissed his claim for allegedly defamatory comments published about him online, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said.
Vietnam ex-MP jailed for stealing US$16 million in housing deposits
A former Vietnamese lawmaker has been sentenced to life in prison for fraud after she pocketed US$16 million in down-payments from would-be homeowners when she was a real estate developer, a court clerk said Tuesday.
Chau Thi Thu Nga is the latest to be punished as part of a government anti-corruption sweep targeting current and former officials, bankers and executives in the communist state.
As chairwoman of the private Housing Group company, Nga sold hundreds of apartments to prospective…
North Korean propaganda leaflets found at South's presidential complex
North Korean propaganda has been found at the South’s presidential compound, officials said on Monday, with the discovery of leaflets praising Pyongyang, which once sent commandos to attack the complex.
Authorities in the nuclear-armed North and activists in the South regularly use balloons to carry leaflets across the demilitarised zone that has divided the peninsula since the end of the Korean war.
Seoul is only 35 miles from the DMZ, within artillery range, and the leaflets are…
Court of Appeal clarifies contractual rights for issuers of bearer notes
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has issued a landmark judgment which clarifies the rights and obligations for issuers of bearer notes and investors in them.
Nine out of 10 Filipinos support Duterte’s drugs war
An opinion poll released on Monday found that nearly nine out of 10 Filipinos support Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and almost three quarters believe extrajudicial killings are taking place in the bloody crackdown.
Duterte’s signature campaign has killed thousands of people and caused international alarm, amid widespread claims by activists that police are executing suspected drug users and dealers.
Police reject that and say every one of the more than 3,900…
What’s it like being a gay student in Japan?
Loretto Cunningham has had a rough day at work. A well-meaning colleague inadvertently revealed her sexuality to a senior member of staff at one of the primary schools in Tokyo where she teaches English.
The school was immediately supportive and reassured her that it changed nothing, but Cunningham, 29, who is originally from West Virginia and has lived in Japan for five years, does not like her private life being the potential subject of staff room gossip.
But whatever her own tribulations…
As anti-US feeling grows in Cambodia, China cashes in
Chinese businesses are quietly expanding their footprint in Cambodia as relations between the Southeast Asian nation and Washington worsen and the din of anti-American sentiment grows louder.
The United States and Cambodia have never been on the best of terms, with the small country’s long-time ruler Hun Sen rarely missing an opportunity to take potshots at the Western superpower.
In recent weeks, the prime minister has unleashed a flood of conspiracy theories centred around the US…
Wild elephants kill four Rohingya refugees at Bangladesh camp
Four Rohingya refugees, three of them children, were killed by elephants as they built a shack in a forest in southern Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have set up makeshift shelters since fleeing violence across the border in Myanmar.
“They were trampled to death by seven or eight wild elephants. They include a woman and three children,” said Afrozul Haq Tutul, deputy…