Chinese authorities say they have blocked messaging apps KakaoTalk and Line as part of efforts to fight terrorism, South Korea said on Thursday, the first official explanation of service disruptions in China that began a month ago. South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said China had confirmed it had blocked “some foreign messaging applications through which terrorism-related information” was circulating.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Congress approved a comprehensive energy reform that will break more than seven decades of state monopoly and dramatically expand the role of foreign and private companies in the country’s oil and gas industry.
London, Aug 7 (ANI): Naomi Watts has revealed that she was never affected by the Hollywood plastic surgery pressure. The Australian actress asserted that she was really just feeling her way and self-consciousness just pervaded because this was an industry town, the Daily Express reported. The 45-year-old actress added that there were days when she felt victorious about the fact that she got so far without plastic surgery but there were a million days when she look in the mirror and thought about going ahead with the plastic surgery.
By Se Young Lee and Sohee Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – As its smartphone sales stutter and a generational leadership succession looms, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is under pressure to reinvent itself – to be more innovative, but not lose the rigor and focus that made it a global powerhouse. The flagship of South Korea’s dominant conglomerate, or chaebol, is also trying to address shifting cultural values at home by curbing some of the excesses hardwired into corporate Korea. “It’s 1-1-9 for evening company outings now: one type of alcohol, in one place and only until 9 p.m,” said a Samsung employee in his eighth year at the firm. Samsung last month posted an unexpectedly sharp drop in second-quarter earnings, squeezed by falling market share in smartphones, and with no obvious driver in sight to reverse the decline.
Cate Blanchett and Lupita Nyong’o, both Oscar-winning actresses and favorites on Hollywood’s red carpet, made Vanity Fair’s 2014 international best dressed list on Wednesday and Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was named to its Hall of Fame. It is Blanchett’s second appearance and the first for Nyong’o on the annual list, which does not rank its fashion stars. Princess Mary of Denmark, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and “Downton Abbey” actress Michelle Dockery were noted for their style, along with artist Jeff Koons, New York Giant football wide receiver Victor Cruz and Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the administration is reviewing what authority he has to act without Congress to stop American companies from reincorporating overseas to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes, a practice he has denounced as unpatriotic and has asked lawmakers to remedy.
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oscar-winning director James Cameron ventured to the farthest reaches of the planet and fulfilled a childhood dream in “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” a documentary that follows him on a record-breaking solo dive to the ocean’s depths. Tightly crammed into the tiny capsule of a vertical-diving submarine, the director of Hollywood’s highest grossing films, “Avatar” and “Titanic,” plunged 35,787 feet (10,908 meters) to the deepest known place on Earth in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. “Curiosity is the most important thing in my life,” said Cameron, 59, whose team of experts designed and built the equipment to dive to the ocean’s depths, photograph its fascinating creatures and gather samples for scientists. Cameron had been enthralled with exploration since reading about French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and was also inspired by the historic dive of Lt. Don Walsh of the U.S. Navy and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard half a century earlier.
The Associated Press-GfK poll on Congress and politics was conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications July 24-28. It is based on online interviews of 1,044 adults who are members of GfK’s nationally representative KnowledgePanel.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has checked out, and the American people have noticed.
Well, after quite a long wait, Multiscreen Media is all set to launch its new GEC offering Sony Pal. The channel will have mostly women centric shows. The channel has also brought in Bollywood’s charming diva Juhi Chawla as its face.
Tellychakkar.com has been constantly updating you about the shows that have been lined up for the channel. The GEC will see nine interesting shows hitting the screens during the launch. Here is the list of the shows.
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