Directors at the UK’s top 350 businesses are not always given all the information they need to discuss cyber risks posed to the company, according to a new survey.
China-India border dispute spills over into Australian university
An IT lecturer at the University of Sydney has apologised for using an out-of-date map that showed a region of Tibet as being Indian territory.
The image upset some Chinese students after it was used by Khimji Vaghjiani during a course titled “Professional Practice in IT”.
The mistake was spotted by The Australian Red Scarf, a WeChat group run by Chinese international students, which ran an article about it last week.
China blames India for latest skirmish in disputed border region…
US destroyer in Singapore collision was named after Senator McCain’s father, grandfather
The US warship involved in the collision off Singapore before dawn on Monday has a name many Americans recognise – but not for its father-and-son namesakes.
Most know Senator John S. McCain III, the Vietnam war hero who ran for president in 2000 and 2008. But it was his father and grandfather – both naval commanders who served during the second world war – who inspired the naming of the 154-metre guided-missile destroyer.
The USS John S. McCain was damaged in a collision with…
Japan’s new foreign minister Taro Kono: China’s friend … or foe?
When Taro Kono was named as Japan’s new foreign minister on August 3, advocates of a closer relationship with China were delighted – but conservatives winced at the appointment.
Kono is the son of Yohei Kono, a former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, and there were many who assumed he would follow in the political footsteps of his liberal-minded father and reach out to Beijing and Seoul.
Foreign media clearly made the same assumption, with the internet version of the…
Malaysia says sorry to Indonesia over upside down flag blunder in Games guidebook
Malaysia apologised on Sunday for the upside-down printing of Indonesia’s flag in the souvenir guidebook for the Southeast Asia Games, which officials said is being withdrawn and reprinted.
The mistake, spotted at the games’ opening in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, sparked an outcry in Indonesia and the hashtag #ShameonyouMalaysia was trending on social media.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo told reporters in Jakarta the incident concerned “national pride…
Train derailment in India kills 23
At least 23 people were killed and 40 others were injured when several cars of a passenger train derailed in northern India Saturday, police said.
The Utkal Express was travelling from the eastern seaside town of Puri to the northern hill town of Haridwar when the train derailed at 5:46 p.m. local time near the town of Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh.
The injured were taken to nearby hospitals and several were in critical condition, IANS news agency reported. Cranes were deployed to lift the coaches…
The race to rescue Cambodian children from orphanages exploiting them for profit
Much was hidden from the tourists visiting Sinet Chan in her rundown Cambodian orphanage.
When they returned to their hotels, cameras full and best intentions sated, they remained oblivious to the reality of what they had just supported.
Chan, the nine-year-old who sang and danced for them, was being starved. She and the other children hunted and ate mice to survive.
The orphanage’s director beat and raped her, repeatedly, over the course of several years. She was forced to toil in his…
North Korea slams next week’s US-South Korea military exercises
North Korea’s official media sharply criticised South Korea and the United States for pressing ahead with joint military exercises next week amid heightened tensions on the peninsula.
North Korea has long criticised the annual military exercises the US conducts with South Korea, regarding them as a rehearsal for an invasion of the North.
North’s Korea’s Central News Agency said the joint exercises would “further drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula into a…
Digital currency exchanges to be subject to tighter anti-money laundering regulation in Australia
Digital currency exchanges will be subject to tighter anti-money laundering (AML) regulation in Australia, under new proposals put forward by the country’s coalition government.
Privy Council: ‘fairness’ central to whether evidence must be put to party at trial
The question of whether a case will fall if a judge rejects a party’s evidence on grounds which that party has not had a chance to explain during the trial should be based on whether the overall trial is fair, senior UK judges have indicated.