MANILA: Facebook says it has banned a Philippine digital marketing group which runs hundreds of pages across the social network with 43 million followers, accusing it of “inauthentic behaviour” and using fake accounts. Facebook has stepped up efforts to root out fake accounts after being criticised for failing to tackle
A partially destroyed Banksy canvas, shredded moments after it was sold at auction last year, will be exhibited in Germany next month, the Frieder Burda museum in Baden-Baden said Tuesday. The work, now called “Love is in the Bin”, will be shown for the first time since it was created
SYDNEY: Australian police vowed Friday to keep up the hunt for a missing German tourist, but after several days of scouring the dusty and parched Outback admitted time was running out. Police have deployed drones and officers around the central town of Alice Springs to find the 62-year-old bushwalker, who
BEIJING: China’s lunar probe has sent the first panoramic image of its landing site since its historic arrival on the far side of the moon, showing the cratered landscape it is exploring. The Chang’e-4 mission – named after a moon goddess – made the world’s first soft landing on the
The organising committee of Vietnam’s Face of The Year Awards 2018 and IMC Group – TodayTV Channel have officially announced the list of Vietnamese representative artists to participate in the red carpet and attend the 23rd Asian Television Awards (ATA) ceremony that will be held at the Borneo Convention Centre,
Cased in glass and lit up by neon lights, the Donald Trump board game, the plastic bicycle, an electric beauty mask, bottles of Green Ketchup and a host of other unlikely innovations have found fame again in Sweden’s Museum of Failure. The museum, one floor of a cultural centre in
BANGKOK: The 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family to Thailand and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation yesterday abruptly suspended her account, with friends saying she had received death threats. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun’s attempt to flee the ultra-conservative kingdom has been embraced by rights groups
When Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara was killed by US-backed Bolivian soldiers in 1967, he left behind a diary that both Cuba and the United States wanted to use for their own purposes. Havana was hoping to glorify the Argentina-born guerrilla, who had played a key role in Cuba’s
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed almost 7.4 million visitors in 2018, figures showed Friday, a new record for the venerable institution which in March began charging a fixed fee for out-of-towners. The figure represented a rise of 5.1 percent compared to 2017, itself a record-setting year. The bump
YANGON: Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar had their appeal dismissed yesterday, dismaying colleagues and tearful family members who had held slim hopes they would walk free. Reporters Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were arrested in Yangon
