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Belt and Road

China Faces New Competition as Japan, India Eye Sri Lanka Port

(Bloomberg) -- India, Japan and Sri Lanka are weighing the development of a terminal at the bustling port of Colombo in a country thats seen ongoing political controversies related to investments from Chinas Belt and Road initiative. The three countries are …

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Monsanto

Fifth of Docker Containers Have No Root Passwords

A fifth of the world’s most popular Docker containers contain a security issue which could make them vulnerable to attack in some circumstances, a researcher has discovered. Kenna Security principal security engineer, Jerry Gamblin, explained that after rece…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Refugees

Thousands of North Korean women are being forced into sexual slavery in China, rights group says

Thousands of North Korean women and girls are sold and trafficked into sexual slavery in China, generating millions of dollars for local crime syndicates, according to a new report by London-based rights group Korea Future Initiative published Monday. The …

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Skateboard

A New Lawsuit Could Transform How the Influencer Industry Is Regulated

Turner Tenney makes his living playing video games. More specifically, he's a celebrity on the video-game-streaming platform Twitch, where he streams as a member of the video game and online creator collective FaZe Clan. But now, the 21-year-old Tenney, who g…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Panda

Vienna warmly welcomes giant panda from China

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Italian unions refuse to load Saudi ship carrying weapons to Yemen

In protest against proxy powers behind the conflict in Yemen, Italian union workers refused to load electricity generators onto a Saudi Arabian ship carrying weapons on Monday. The 'Bahri-Yanbu' was blocked from collecting arms in the French port of Le Havre…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Silk Road

Why capturing Huawei is no victory in tech war | Article – Asia Times

Its geopolitical, geoeconomic war. Cold, so far, but now about to descend to deep freeze. The US National Security Strategy unmistakably spells it out. China is a strategic competitor and must be contained, no holds barred, on all fronts: economic, military a…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Palestine

Madonna uploads Eurovision video performance with ‘edited’ vocals

Madonna has posted a video of her controversial Eurovision performance, apparently with a few edits to her vocals. The Like a Prayer star received mixed reactions to her performance at the final on Saturday 18 May, with many criticising her voice, including…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Nukes

Hundreds of foreign companies attend North Korea trade fair despite sanctions

SEOUL (Reuters) - An international trade fair in North Korea this week may be the largest such event on record, analysts said on Tuesday, with hundreds of Chinese and other foreign vendors taking part despite sanctions pressure. The 22nd Pyongyang Spring In…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Belt and Road

Japan, India to build terminal on China’s Lankan Port

The governments of Japan, India and Sri Lanka have agreed to develop a container terminal at the Port of Colombo, which has attracted major investment from China under its Belt and Road initiative, a Japanese newspaper reported. The three will sign a memoran…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

China Faces New Competition as Japan, India Eye Sri Lanka Port

Fifth of Docker Containers Have No Root Passwords

Thousands of North Korean women are being forced into sexual slavery in China, rights group says

A New Lawsuit Could Transform How the Influencer Industry Is Regulated

Vienna warmly welcomes giant panda from China

Italian unions refuse to load Saudi ship carrying weapons to Yemen

Why capturing Huawei is no victory in tech war | Article – Asia Times

Madonna uploads Eurovision video performance with ‘edited’ vocals

Hundreds of foreign companies attend North Korea trade fair despite sanctions

Japan, India to build terminal on China’s Lankan Port

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