TORONTO: A woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programmes arrived Monday in Canada with her daughter, where they were granted asylum. “Now me and Keana are permanent residents in Canada. Now we are safe and free. I’m so grateful,” Vanessa
SYDNEY: Australia warned social media giants Tuesday that executives could be jailed if they fail to quickly remove extremist material from their platforms. Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with a number of tech firms Tuesday – including Facebook, Twitter and Google – to ask how they planned to keep their
CALELLA (Spain): Belgian Lotto-Soudal rider Thomas de Gendt completed a long range solo break through the mountains to win the Tour of Catalonia’s opening stage on Monday ahead of an all star cast of contenders. In glorious spring sunshine De Gendt finished a 164km route in 4hrs 14mins and 32sec
LONDON: The new Formula One season is under way but the action on the track is being overshadowed by concerns over the implications of Brexit, with so many teams calling Britain home. Seven of the 10 F1 teams are based in Britain and there are nine European races this season,
Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes — and opposition from menacing gangsters. There’s no quiet rule at this open-air reading park wedged between two lanes of traffic just outside Indonesia’s capital,
Google on Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games consoles. The tech platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, aims to connect more people to participate in interactive play on PCs, tablets, smartphones
ANKARA: Turkey’s central bank yesterday vowed to use all the tools at its disposal to “maintain price stability” after a slide in the lira last week amid investor concerns over domestic monetary policy. The lira lost around 5.2 percent in value against the greenback on Friday, its worst day since
Junta primes to retain power after election BANGKOK: Thailand yesterday awaited the results of its first election since a 2014 coup, with the junta primed to retain its grip on power after a vote that saw its main rival diminished but vaulted a new pro-democracy force into the kingdom’s politics.
TAIPEI: China is trying to establish a “new world media order” to prevent and counter criticism, a project that threatens press freedom globally, watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned in a report released yesterday. Communist authorities in China strictly control the flow of information to citizens, including through the “Great
CAIRNS (Australia): A man has been bitten on the leg by a shark in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, authorities said yesterday, the fourth such attack in six months at the popular tourist site. Paramedics were called to a diving pontoon at Hardy Reef off the Queensland coast just after midday