Channelnewsasia: China said on Saturday it has sacked six senior officials at its food and drug regulator after a safety scandal at vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology Co Ltd revealed failings at the government body including inadequate supervision. In a posting on its website, the State Administration for Market Regulation said that among officials dismissed were…
Channel News Asia: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be in Singapore for a four-day working visit from Sunday (Aug 19) to Tuesday, at the invitation of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said. During her visit, she will meet Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Lee…
NDTV: In one of the largest panoramic views of star birth, astronomers using the ultraviolet vision of NASA’s Hubble space telescope have assembled an image that features approximately 15,000 galaxies, about 12,000 of which are forming stars. The image is a portion of the GOODS-North field, which is located in the northern constellation Ursa Major,…
Anjana Susarla, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University/WION news When Facebook recently removed several accounts for trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections, it was the company’s latest move acknowledging the key challenge facing the social media giant: It is both an open platform for free expression of diverse viewpoints and a public…
UNB: A special prayer was offered on Friday at the Islamic Centre of Washington in Washington, DC seeking divine blessings for the departed souls of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the martyrs of the August 15 tragedy. Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. organised the special prayers, marking the 43rd anniversary…
AFP: Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad on Saturday, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country. The ceremony at the President’s House in the capital marks the end of decades of rotating…
Hindustan Times: An 18-year-old student from Georgia solved six Rubik’s cubes under water in one breath on Friday, in a bid to set a new Guinness World Record. Vako Marchelashvili was submerged in a glass tank for just over one minute and 44 seconds as he flipped, turned and solved the cubes in front of…
Arafat Hasan: Rab arrested Faria Mahjabin, 28, owner of Nerdy Bean Coffee Haus in Dhanmondi, under the controversial section 57 of the ICT Act for “spreading rumors and sharing provocative posts” on social media. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed that Mahjabin, who was arrested in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh on Thursday, circulated a prerecorded audio file to…
Desk Report: Star Cineplex has released two Hollywood films on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, action thriller ‘Mile 22’ and adventure film ‘Alpha’, reports Asian Age. Both the film had its worldwide released and Bangladeshi cinemagoers will be able to enjoy the film from the first day of these two film’s international release, informed marketing officer…
Molly Fosco/OZY.com A kindergarten teacher tells her students to form a circle on the floor while she takes attendance. A stampede of 5-year-olds scrambles over, and after several minutes spent squirming and rearranging limbs, they finally manage to settle down into some semblance of a round shape. The teacher begins roll call — “Dionysus?” “Here!”…