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Coffee sacks are woven into baskets and old tyres are refashioned as belts. (Photo: AFP)

Life

World Environment Day: Myanmar enterprise tries to make trash trendy

Chu Chu, which means "plastic" in Burmese, started in 2013 with just two workers.

5 Jun 2018 2:04 PM IST

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago released climate-altering sulphur, cooling the Earth far more than thought. (Photo: Pixabay)

Life

Dinosaurs too liked perfumes that we enjoy it seems

The anther glands on the fossil acacia flower were especially attractive to bees, one of which was fossilized while...

9 Aug 2018 1:14 PM IST

The Facebook bug was active between May 29 and June 5.

Technology

Facebook says it was 'too slow' to fight hate speech in Myanmar

The Reuters story revealed the social media giant for years dedicated scant resources to combating hate speech in...

16 Aug 2018 2:55 PM IST

$Facebook on Thursday admitted that nearly 5.62 lakh people in India were \potentially affected\ by its global data breach.$ Technology

The reason Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar

A United Nations investigator said Facebook was used to incite violence and hatred against the Muslim minority group.

16 Aug 2018 7:36 AM IST

Facebook banned several Buddhist nationalists for hate messages targeting Rohingya Muslims.

Technology

Facebook claims it was 'too slow' to combat hate speech in Myanmar

Some 700,000 Rohingya fled their homes last year after an army crackdown that the United States denounced as ethnic...

17 Aug 2018 9:19 AM IST

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the companys headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Technology

Social media must block hate speech: UN rights boss

Facebook said on Monday it was removing several Myanmar military officials from the social media website.

30 Aug 2018 8:15 AM IST

Technology

Facebook bans Myanmar army chief in unprecedented move

It was the first time Facebook banned a country's military or political leaders, according to a Facebook spokeswoman.

28 Aug 2018 7:47 AM IST

A rickshaw driver checks his mobile phone in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, February 4, 2021. Myanmars new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Mondays coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected civilian government and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP)

World

Myanmar blocks Facebook as resistance grows to coup

Service provider Telenor Myanmar confirmed that mobile operators and internet service providers had received a directive...

4 Feb 2021 12:30 PM IST

Business

Finance Ministry notifies changes in FDI policy under FEMA law

Prior approval of government mandatory for foreign investments, to prevent the opportunistic takeover of domestic firms

23 April 2020 12:42 PM IST

Books

Eight angry sisters

The Peripheral Centre is an ambitious book. As the back flap explains, “it seeks to give voice to the many issues...

21 Sept 2010 6:16 PM IST

World

Tsunami alert after 7.3-magnitude quake rocks Japan

A tsunami alert was issued for Japan’s northeast coast today after a powerful 7.3-magnitude undersea earthquake...

7 Dec 2012 3:34 PM IST

Metros

State announces new system to curb accidents

To curb the rising number of fatal road accidents on Mumbai-Pune Expressw-ay, the state on Wednesday announced the...

14 March 2013 11:08 AM IST