December 2021
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A well-known Chinese online streaming star, Huang Wei, widely called Viya, has been ordered to pay a fine of some $210 million for failure to pay taxes. Viya, a celeb on the net, has a following of 18 million. The online streamer has proven to be an expert in online sales, prudently utilizing her platform…
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Cardi B is a certified style icon, no doubts about that, but her outfit picks for her kids could use some help — according to her husband Offset, at least. Earlier this week, the wedded rappers took a trip to Target, where the 29-year-old “WAP” hitmaker fell in love with a potential accessory for their 3-month-old…
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In a historic settlement, Steve Easterbrook, former chief executive of McDonald’s, returned $105 million in cash and stock to the fast-food company. The nine-digit settlement comes two years after Easterbrook was given severance to leave the company in November 2019 after a sexual relationship with a junior staff colleague was revealed. The case arose because…
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Germany has expelled two Russian diplomats following a court ruling that Moscow had ordered the 2019 murder of a Georgian citizen in Berlin. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made the announcement of the expulsions. The German court found that Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov had murdered Tornike Khangoshvili, an ethnic Chechen of Georgian nationality, in a…
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Military flyovers from China and tough talk in Washington have made a possible conflict over Taiwan feel more real in the past month. That is true for Chen Yi-guang, a retired finance professional. The Taipei dweller and his family have casually deliberated overstocking on food and water. They could flee if attacked, he said, but…
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Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country’s use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka Fujishiro, was convicted of killing seven people and setting fire to their house in 2004, while the other two, Tomoaki Takanezawa and…
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Countries across Europe considered new curbs on movement on Tuesday while U.S. President Joe Biden called on military medics to support hospitals and fight the Omicron variant sweeping the world days before the second Christmas of the pandemic. Omicron infections are multiplying across Europe, the United States and Asia, including in Japan, where a single cluster of…
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U.S. health authorities are considering reducing the 10-day recommended quarantine period for Americans who test positive for COVID-19 as the Omicron variant tears across the country, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday. A spike in COVID-19 cases is alarming public health officials who fear an explosion of infections following social mingling over…
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President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had no room to retreat in a standoff with the United States over Ukraine and would be forced into a tough response unless the West dropped its “aggressive line”. Putin addressed the remarks to military officials as Russia pressed for an urgent U.S. and NATO response to…
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Taiwanese-American singer Wang Leehom’s former wife – Lee Jinglei – took to social media late on Friday night (Dec 17) to accuse him of various misdeeds throughout their marriage, including multiple infidelities, soliciting prostitutes and being verbally abusive. She also described him as a bully. The nine-page bombshell of about 4,500 words comes just two…
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Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin, prevailed in a civil trial verdict earlier this week against the family of a deceased business partner that claimed it was owed half of a cryptocurrency fortune worth tens of billions. A Florida jury found that Wright did not owe half of…
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Alphabet’s Google reportedly told its employees they will lose pay and eventually be fired if they flout the company’s COVID-19 vaccine policy, according to leaked internal documents. A memo circulated by Google’s leadership that was seen by CNBC said employees had until December 3 to declare their vaccination status and upload documentation showing proof or…
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Tesla boss Elon Musk said the electric carmaker will accept the cryptocurrency Dogecoin to purchase its merchandise on a test basis. The price of Dogecoin surged as much as 32 per cent on the news, before settling around a 25 per cent high, according to Coinmarketcap. “Tesla will make some merch buyable with Doge &…
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Literature Review COVID-19 events exposed the systemic weakness in global whistleblower protection laws[1]. Reports from Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) show that gross negligence among governments is responsible for retaliatory attacks on medical professionals and frontline workers who reported unethical practices[2] like Li Wenliang[3] and the following: Dr. Ai Fen from Wuhan Central Hospital, who suffered…
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A man has been beaten to death at one of Sikhism’s holiest shrines in India after he allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act by trespassing into an inner shrine, according to local media reports. Police said the incident took place on Saturday at about 17:45 local time (11:45 GMT) and was captured on camera…
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