Employment News 5th November 2013
Google boss calls for speech in China
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt called on China to open up Internet access and voiced concern at its latest crackdown on online freedoms in an interview in Hong Kong on Monday.
Schmidt was visiting as part of a programme to encourage young entrepreneurs in the city.
He said China would need to open up in order to grow and criticised the mainland's latest move against "online rumours", which could mean prison for authors of defamatory messages re-posted 500 times.
Note--Google abandoned its Chinese-language search engine in mainland China in 2011 and transferred it to Hong Kong.
"China's censorship regime has gotten significantly worse since we left, so something would have to change before we come back," he told the Wall Street Journal.
BlackBerry to replace CEO
BlackBerry Ltd is abandoning a plan to sell itself and instead will replace its chief executive officer and raise about $1 billion from institutional investors.
BlackBerry's largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, will take up $250 million of the debentures.
Fairfax announced a tentative $9-a-share offer for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company in late September. But Reuters said on Friday that Fairfax was struggling to finance the $4.7 billion bid.
Note -Shares of BlackBerry dropped 19% to $6.33 in premarket trading.
The company will raise the money with a private placement of convertible debentures.
Lost world' discovered in remote Australia
A remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years a "lost world".
Conrad Hoskin from James Cook University and a National Geographic film crew were dropped by helicopter onto the rugged Cape Melville mountain range on Cape York Peninsula earlier this year and were amazed at what they found.
According to National Geographic, the team plans to return to Cape Melville within months to search for more new species, including snails, spiders, and perhaps even small mammals.
Species include-It included a bizarre looking leaf-tail gecko, a gold-coloured skink – a type of lizard – and a brown-spotted, yellow boulder-dwelling frog, none of them ever seen before.
Sikkim became top region to visit in 2014 by a leading global travel guide
Sikkim has been named as the best region to visit in 2014 by a leading global travel guide, with Brazil emerging as the top destination in terms of countries.
Lonely Planet's 'Best in Travel 2014' has come out with a list of top 10 destinations in different categories such as best countries to visit, best regions to visit, best cities to visit and many more such guiding lists for travel next year.
The Kimberly region in Australia came in second after Sikkim in the list of best destinations to visit in 2014 in terms of regions.
Brazil topped the list of best destinations to visit in 2014. Antarctica and Scotland were also named in the top three.
Usain Bolt reveals to soon his autobiography, Faster than Lightning
Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...he powered to three gold medals fuelled by Chicken McNuggets, a total he now estimates to have reached 1,000 during his 10 days in the Chinese capital.
In his biography he wrote--a 20 piece box of the crispy snacks totals 940 calories and 59 grams of fat. So if Bolt, then 22, was putting away 100 a day, that is nearly 5,000 calories in each of the 10 days he was in Beijing, where he wasn't just burning up the track - he was also burning some serious calories.
UAE online photos require subject's consent
United Arab Emirates are warning social media users that photos of individuals posted online without their consent could lead to jail.
Al Ittihad newspaper say posting photos or video without permission can bring up to six months in prison and fines as high as 500,000 dirhams, nearly $140,00.
The newspaper quotes Interior Ministry official Lt. Col. Salah al-Ghoul as saying the rules apply to social media sites or any “information network.
In July, Dubai police arrested a man who posted an Internet video of an Emirati beating a South Asian motorist after an apparent traffic altercation.
£20 million for study on Hindu, Buddhist art
United Kingdom has been given biggest donations to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, to advance the study and preservation of Buddhist and Hindu art in Southeast Asia.
donation of £ 20 million by the Chicago-based Alphawood Foundation will amount to 28 per cent of the 2012-13 turnover of SOAS, a press release from SOAS says.
Donation named The Alphawood’s donation, which its founder Fred Eychaner has called “transformative” for the institution, will provide funding for over 80 scholarships, three fully endowed academic positions, and SOAS’ expansion plans in central London.
Indian university to tie-up with Israeli institutes
Kerala-based minority institution, Karunya University, has signed multiple Memorandum of Understandings with several leading Israeli academic institutions.
The UGC-recognised institution has signed MoUs with the Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Technion of Haifa and Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prof Yoram Oren of the Zuckerberg Institute of Water Research of BGU is already a 'Visiting Faculty' at Karunya University and has established a laboratory to study electrochemical methods for water treatment.
Karunya University is also in the process of formulating joint projects with Technion on food processing and aerospace engineering.
Previous yrear Israel announced over 100 post-doctoral fellowships for Indian and Chinese scholars, to attract Asian talent to Israeli research institutions.
Nitish Sengupta passes away
Former Lok Sabha MP and Revenue Secretary Nitish Sengupta passed away after a massive cardiac suffering. He was 80.
He was survived by two daughters, family members said. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from the Contai (West Bengal) Parliament seat on a Trinamool Congress ticket, but joined the Congress in 2004 after the UPA I government came to power.
Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily on Monday allowed the sale of 5-kg cooking gas (LPG) cylinders at petrol pumps across the country--
The scheme, launched on October 5, allowed petrol pumps owned and operated by oil companies in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore to sell the 5-kg cylinders.
Company owned and operated outlets make up for 3 per cent of the 47,000 petrol pumps in the country.
The smaller cylinders will be sold at market rates, which are more than double the subsidised price of Rs. 410 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi.
The first-time purchase of a 5-kg cylinder will cost Rs. 1,000 plus taxes, while a regulator will be available for Rs. 250 and taxes.
The cost of the product and refills will be based on non-subsidised rates.
India, Australia getting towards civil nuclear agreement
India on a way to Australia, the world’s biggest exporter of the radioactive mineral, with the Foreign Ministers of both countries agreeing to hold the third round of talks on a bilateral civil nuclear agreement towards the end of this month.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop reaffirmed the commitment of both countries to finalise a Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to enable the sale of Australian uranium to India, and announced that the third round of negotiations in Perth on the margins of a multilateral conference.
Australia also welcomed plans to hold a major conference of persons of Indian origin, the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, in the country in November. India is now Australia’s largest source of skilled migrants and the second largest source of international students. “Australia is pleased with that,” Ms. Bishop noted.
An Indian scholar in Ethiopia published over a dozen books specially designed for foreigners to learn Ethiopia's languages, mainly Amharic.
Amharic for Foreigners', K Sekhar from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, who teaches business management at Mizan Tepi University in southwestern Ethiopia, has also written language primers in Tigrigna, Oromifa, Nuer, Kafi Noono and Hadiya.
The last two are the first to be written by an expatriate. In addition to the Amharic book, he has also written a Hindi primer for non-Hindi speakers in the English and Amharic versions.
Google boss calls for speech in China
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt called on China to open up Internet access and voiced concern at its latest crackdown on online freedoms in an interview in Hong Kong on Monday.
Schmidt was visiting as part of a programme to encourage young entrepreneurs in the city.
He said China would need to open up in order to grow and criticised the mainland's latest move against "online rumours", which could mean prison for authors of defamatory messages re-posted 500 times.
Note--Google abandoned its Chinese-language search engine in mainland China in 2011 and transferred it to Hong Kong.
"China's censorship regime has gotten significantly worse since we left, so something would have to change before we come back," he told the Wall Street Journal.
BlackBerry to replace CEO
BlackBerry Ltd is abandoning a plan to sell itself and instead will replace its chief executive officer and raise about $1 billion from institutional investors.
BlackBerry's largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, will take up $250 million of the debentures.
Fairfax announced a tentative $9-a-share offer for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company in late September. But Reuters said on Friday that Fairfax was struggling to finance the $4.7 billion bid.
Note -Shares of BlackBerry dropped 19% to $6.33 in premarket trading.
The company will raise the money with a private placement of convertible debentures.
Lost world' discovered in remote Australia
A remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years a "lost world".
Conrad Hoskin from James Cook University and a National Geographic film crew were dropped by helicopter onto the rugged Cape Melville mountain range on Cape York Peninsula earlier this year and were amazed at what they found.
According to National Geographic, the team plans to return to Cape Melville within months to search for more new species, including snails, spiders, and perhaps even small mammals.
Species include-It included a bizarre looking leaf-tail gecko, a gold-coloured skink – a type of lizard – and a brown-spotted, yellow boulder-dwelling frog, none of them ever seen before.
Sikkim became top region to visit in 2014 by a leading global travel guide
Sikkim has been named as the best region to visit in 2014 by a leading global travel guide, with Brazil emerging as the top destination in terms of countries.
Lonely Planet's 'Best in Travel 2014' has come out with a list of top 10 destinations in different categories such as best countries to visit, best regions to visit, best cities to visit and many more such guiding lists for travel next year.
The Kimberly region in Australia came in second after Sikkim in the list of best destinations to visit in 2014 in terms of regions.
Brazil topped the list of best destinations to visit in 2014. Antarctica and Scotland were also named in the top three.
Usain Bolt reveals to soon his autobiography, Faster than Lightning
Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...he powered to three gold medals fuelled by Chicken McNuggets, a total he now estimates to have reached 1,000 during his 10 days in the Chinese capital.
In his biography he wrote--a 20 piece box of the crispy snacks totals 940 calories and 59 grams of fat. So if Bolt, then 22, was putting away 100 a day, that is nearly 5,000 calories in each of the 10 days he was in Beijing, where he wasn't just burning up the track - he was also burning some serious calories.
UAE online photos require subject's consent
United Arab Emirates are warning social media users that photos of individuals posted online without their consent could lead to jail.
Al Ittihad newspaper say posting photos or video without permission can bring up to six months in prison and fines as high as 500,000 dirhams, nearly $140,00.
The newspaper quotes Interior Ministry official Lt. Col. Salah al-Ghoul as saying the rules apply to social media sites or any “information network.
In July, Dubai police arrested a man who posted an Internet video of an Emirati beating a South Asian motorist after an apparent traffic altercation.
£20 million for study on Hindu, Buddhist art
United Kingdom has been given biggest donations to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, to advance the study and preservation of Buddhist and Hindu art in Southeast Asia.
donation of £ 20 million by the Chicago-based Alphawood Foundation will amount to 28 per cent of the 2012-13 turnover of SOAS, a press release from SOAS says.
Donation named The Alphawood’s donation, which its founder Fred Eychaner has called “transformative” for the institution, will provide funding for over 80 scholarships, three fully endowed academic positions, and SOAS’ expansion plans in central London.
Indian university to tie-up with Israeli institutes
Kerala-based minority institution, Karunya University, has signed multiple Memorandum of Understandings with several leading Israeli academic institutions.
The UGC-recognised institution has signed MoUs with the Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Technion of Haifa and Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prof Yoram Oren of the Zuckerberg Institute of Water Research of BGU is already a 'Visiting Faculty' at Karunya University and has established a laboratory to study electrochemical methods for water treatment.
Karunya University is also in the process of formulating joint projects with Technion on food processing and aerospace engineering.
Previous yrear Israel announced over 100 post-doctoral fellowships for Indian and Chinese scholars, to attract Asian talent to Israeli research institutions.
Nitish Sengupta passes away
Former Lok Sabha MP and Revenue Secretary Nitish Sengupta passed away after a massive cardiac suffering. He was 80.
He was survived by two daughters, family members said. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from the Contai (West Bengal) Parliament seat on a Trinamool Congress ticket, but joined the Congress in 2004 after the UPA I government came to power.
Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily on Monday allowed the sale of 5-kg cooking gas (LPG) cylinders at petrol pumps across the country--
The scheme, launched on October 5, allowed petrol pumps owned and operated by oil companies in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore to sell the 5-kg cylinders.
Company owned and operated outlets make up for 3 per cent of the 47,000 petrol pumps in the country.
The smaller cylinders will be sold at market rates, which are more than double the subsidised price of Rs. 410 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi.
The first-time purchase of a 5-kg cylinder will cost Rs. 1,000 plus taxes, while a regulator will be available for Rs. 250 and taxes.
The cost of the product and refills will be based on non-subsidised rates.
India, Australia getting towards civil nuclear agreement
India on a way to Australia, the world’s biggest exporter of the radioactive mineral, with the Foreign Ministers of both countries agreeing to hold the third round of talks on a bilateral civil nuclear agreement towards the end of this month.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop reaffirmed the commitment of both countries to finalise a Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement to enable the sale of Australian uranium to India, and announced that the third round of negotiations in Perth on the margins of a multilateral conference.
Australia also welcomed plans to hold a major conference of persons of Indian origin, the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, in the country in November. India is now Australia’s largest source of skilled migrants and the second largest source of international students. “Australia is pleased with that,” Ms. Bishop noted.
An Indian scholar in Ethiopia published over a dozen books specially designed for foreigners to learn Ethiopia's languages, mainly Amharic.
Amharic for Foreigners', K Sekhar from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, who teaches business management at Mizan Tepi University in southwestern Ethiopia, has also written language primers in Tigrigna, Oromifa, Nuer, Kafi Noono and Hadiya.
The last two are the first to be written by an expatriate. In addition to the Amharic book, he has also written a Hindi primer for non-Hindi speakers in the English and Amharic versions.
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