Ahead of the new Major League Soccer season, the multi-cultural Alejandro Bedoya shares his views on his sport as well as US politics. CNN’s Don Riddell spoke with Bedoya. Source: Sports
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Australia to bring back ambassadors to shape foreign policy: Report
Australia will temporarily bring back every ambassador from across the world to help shape the final components of its new foreign policy, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Wednesday citing the Foreign Ministry. Source: Asia Pacific
Read More »Australia to bring back ambassadors to shape foreign policy – report
Australia will temporarily bring back every ambassador from across the world to help shape the final components of its new foreign policy, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Wednesday citing the Foreign Ministry. Source: Asia Pacific
Read More »The eternal debate between privacy and security
What is the line dividing privacy from national security? If you are a privacy advocate, the line is closer to “everything is private”. If you are a nation state wanting to protect its interests, that line falls somewhere nearer to your preschool diary. Homeland in the US is working on …
Read More »Tax option to attract EEC talent backed
The cabinet yesterday approved a Finance Ministry proposal to offer a personal income tax option for global talents working for companies that invest in 10 target industries in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Source: Business
Read More »The start of a beautiful friendship
The first partnership between Chinese smartphone Huawei and German camera-maker Leica started last year with the Huawei P9 smartphone, which has brought achievement to both parties, as now a premium lens on high-performance smartphone has become recognised and desired by a broader group of users. Source: Tech
Read More »Dawn of a gaming dream
Much as it is with movies, it’s increasingly rare these days for a wholly original video game — one that’s not a sequel, prequel, spin-off or remake/remastering of an existing game — to find recognition in a market overflowing with familiar, tried-and-true rehashes of popular products. Horizon Zero Dawn, the …
Read More »Huawei Watch 2
The smartwatch sports GPS navigation and mapping, supporting NFC, 4G LTE and stand-alone calling. It has a 1.2-inch rounded AMOLED display that measures 42mm in diameter, and is water and dust resistant. The Watch 2 is clad in Gorilla Glass 3, and its screen is rather pixel dense at 326 …
Read More »Hot-money inflow into bonds piques BoT curiosity
The massive offshore fund inflows spotted in the Thai bond market in February amid prospects of a firmer baht could trigger speculative activity or more benign use of Thai assets as a shelter from global fluctuation, says a senior Bank of Thailand official. Source: Business
Read More »Singha township in the works
SET-listed Singha Estate Plc (S) plans to develop a township project with a mixed development of offices, retail and low-rise residential projects worth more than 13 billion baht combined on a 240-rai plot in the Krungthep Kritha area. Source: Business
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