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      18 January

      ‘Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails

      At least 16 foreigners continue to be held over alleged unpaid debts and compensation despite completing jail terms. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – When Ezeigwe Evaristus Chukwuebuka, a Nigerian man completed his 12-year sentence for financial fraud in Vietnam, he expected to fly home and see his family. Convicted in 2012, Chukwuebuka was released four years early, having endured hard labour — defined by the Vietnamese authorities as ‘rehabilitation’. However, instead of getting on a plane to Nigeria, he was transferred to a detention centre one hour southeast of Ho Chi Minh City in Long An province. Chukwuebuka was detained in the centre for two years, at times held in solitary confinement with his ankles locked in iron shackles as…

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    • 18 January

      Philippines’s Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion

      Appellate tax court clears journalist and Nobel laureate of all four charges of tax evasion, which could have sent her to prison for decades. Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her online news outlet Rappler have been acquitted of tax evasion. The ruling by an appellate court on Wednesday handed Ressa a victory in a case she has described as part of a pattern of harassment by the government of former President Rodrigo Duterte to muzzle critical reporting. If convicted of the four tax evasion charges, she would have faced 34 years in jail. “Today, facts win. Truth wins. Justice wins,” an emotional Ressa said after Wednesday’s ruling. “These charges as you know were politically motivated, they were a brazen…

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    • 18 January

      Top Ukraine, US military leaders meet over ‘urgent needs’

      The first face-to-face meeting between the two comes as the international community ramps up military assistance to Ukraine, including tanks and air defence systems. The top United States military officer travelled to Poland and talked with his Ukrainian counterpart face to face for the first time as Russia’s war on Ukraine nears the one-year mark. US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met for a couple of hours with Ukraine’s chief military officer, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, at an undisclosed location in southeastern Poland near the border with Ukraine. Zaluzhnyi said he outlined his forces’ “urgent needs” on Tuesday with Milley. The two leaders have talked frequently about Ukraine’s military requirements and the state of the…

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    • 18 January

      UNGA President Csaba Korosi to visit India, meet leaders, scientists

      During his visit starting around January 29, he will also address the Indian Council of World Affairs and visit a water conservation project, Kubiak said on Tuesday. United Nations: UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi is visiting India later this month to meet officials and scientists, according to his Spokesperson Paulina Kubiak. During his visit starting around January 29, he will also address the Indian Council of World Affairs and visit a water conservation project, Kubiak said on Tuesday. Korosi has a special interest in development, a key element of his agenda as Head of the General Assembly, and particularly in the water conservation element of it. Before his election as UN General Assembly President, he was the Environmental Sustainability Director in the Hungarian…

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    • 18 January

      Microsoft to lay off nearly 11K employees this week: Report

      Sky News reported that Satya Nadella-run company is “finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce during a global economic slowdown”. San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft is joining the ongoing layoff season at tech companies, and is reportedly set to fire nearly 11,000 employees this week amid the global economic slowdown. Sky News reported that Satya Nadella-run company is “finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce during a global economic slowdown”. Microsoft employs more than 220,000 people, including 6,000 in the UK. The company’s contemplating reducing roughly 5 per cent of its workforce, “which, if accurate, would equate to approximately 11,000 jobs”. The company will likely announce layoffs on Wednesday (US time), ahead of its…

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    • 18 January

      Twitter to block 3rd party apps like Tweetbot

      Micro-blogging platform Twitter has announced that it is blocking third-party applications like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. San Francisco: Micro-blogging platform Twitter has announced that it is blocking third-party applications like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. The platform tweeted from its @TwitterDev account on Tuesday: “Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.” Several users expressed their thoughts on the company’s announcement. While one user asked, “oh yeah? what rules did Tweetbot broke? And Twitterrific?”, another said, “translation: We’re embarrassed other apps are better so instead of improving ours, we’ll just block them”. Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week said that Twitter’s “open source” algorithm will be revealed next month, as several people were unable to use third-party Twitter apps and…

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    • 18 January

      71 bodies recovered at Nepal’s plane crash site, one still missing

      “We have found one more body in the Seti River,” Guru Datta Dhakal, assistant chief district officer of the Kaski district where the ATR-72 aircraft crashed, told Xinhua. Kathmandu: With the second body recovered at the crash site of a Nepali passenger plane in central Nepal on Tuesday, 71 bodies had been found with the last missing victim remains to be confirmed, an official said. “We have found one more body in the Seti River,” Guru Datta Dhakal, assistant chief district officer of the Kaski district where the ATR-72 aircraft crashed, told Xinhua. “So the total number of bodies recovered has reached 71.” A Yeti Airlines plane crashed into the Seti river gorge near the city of Pokhara on Sunday when it was…

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    • 18 January

      ‘Have learnt our lesson’: Pak PM Sharif calls for talks with India

      Abu Dhabi: In an interview with an Arabic news channel, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Pakistan “learnt its lessons” from the wars it fought with India. Admitting the difficult financial and security position that Pakistan finds itself in, Mr Sharif said the wars caused “distress, poverty and unemployment” to its population. During the conversation, the Pakistani PM also batted for “honest” talks with India. Later, in an apparent attempt at damage control, Islamabad said that talks with India can take place only after New Delhi reverses the scrapping of Article 370. The Pakistan Prime Minister was quoted by media reports as telling the Al Arabiya channel, “My message to the Indian leadership and PM (Narendra) Modi is that allow us…

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    • 18 January

      India poised to emerge as most populous country as China`s population declines

      China`s demographic crisis deepened in 2022 as its population declined for the first time since 1961 due to a plunging birth rate, the country`s statistics office said on Tuesday, amid a forecast that India is poised to overtake the Communist giant as the world`s most populous country. China`s population in 2022 — 1.4118 billion — fell by 850,000 from 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. The NBS announcement comes at a time when China`s economic growth fell to its second-lowest in five decades, registering a paltry three per cent increase in 2022. According to a recent report by the World Population Prospects 2022 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, India is projected to surpass…

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    • 18 January

      ‘Pakistan has learnt its lesson’: PM Shahbaz Sharif offers olive branch to India, calls for peace

      With terror-related violence on the rise in Pakistan since the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke a ceasefire with security forces in late November, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for a “critical and honest talk” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on “burning points like Kashmir,” news agency ANI reported. Sharif stated in an interview with the Dubai-based Arabic news television channel Al Arabiya that the three wars with India have “only added to the people’s distress, poverty, and unemployment.” “My message to the Indian management and PM Modi is that allow us sit down on the desk and have critical and honest talks to resolve our burning points like Kashmir. It’s as much as us to stay peacefully and make progress…

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