[ QUEZON CITY, Philippines: Record heat in the Philippines this month has forced schools to send children home for online classes, reviving memories of Covid lockdowns and raising fears that more extreme weather in the years to come could deepen educational inequalities. Pupils at 7,000 public schools in the South-East Asian country were sent home … Read more
[ The convenience of online shopping is hard to beat. But it uses a lot of energy and resources and can lead to more waste. Transportation needed for online shopping spews greenhouse emissions. Three billion trees are cut down every year to produce packaging for all kinds of things, ecommerce included, according to some estimates. … Read more
[ Hongkongers were quick to respond to Monday’s ban on single-use plastics in creative if not mocking ways, taking to online trading platforms to sell off unused disposable utensils made from the synthetic material. While major fast food chains switched to providing reusable non-plastic utensils for takeaways, some online traders moved swiftly to try and … Read more
[ When Denise Brown peruses the tightly packed gift card display at her local CVS in Harlem, New York, she sees the perfect present for her grandson: a Sony PlayStation gift card. Others, acting in bad faith, see these gift card displays as easy money in one of the country’s costliest and most common consumer … Read more
[ TOKYO: Japan’s antitrust watchdog said on April 22 that US search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its recent study of Google’s practices showed it was undermining fair competition in the advertising market. Google did not immediately respond … Read more
[ NEW YORK: At Sansan Chicken in Long Island City, Queens, the cashier beamed a wide smile and recommended the fried chicken sandwich. Or maybe she suggested the tonkatsu – it was hard to tell, because the Internet connection from her home in the Philippines was spotty. Romy, who declined to give her last name, … Read more
[ SINGAPORE: A married woman entered into a relationship with a man she met online, and agreed to open a bank account on his behalf. Lim Gek Hong’s online boyfriend identified as “Kelvin Lin” used the account to dupe two people in an Internet love scam, and they lost S$167,000 in total in early 2023. … Read more
[ A top student in China was rejected by a university after his history of cat abuse was exposed, reported Chinese media outlets. The student, who is known only as Xu in Chinese media reports, failed to enter the School of Physics at Nanjing University in the eastern province of Jiangsu, despite receiving the highest … Read more
[ MUMBAI: In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India’s A-lister Bollywood actors are seen criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country’s ongoing general election. In a 30-second video that shows Aamir Khan and another 41-second clip of Ranveer Singh, the … Read more
[ When Mike Cypert got the call that utilities in remote Texas communities were being hacked, he raced across his office to unplug the computer that ran his city’s water system. Hale Center is a dusty, cotton-growing burg of 2,000 about five hours drive northwest of Dallas. After the alert from a software vendor in … Read more
