Anonymous ID: 644458 Jan. 17, 2019, 1:23 p.m. No.4795317   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5395 >>5534

Facebook manager says in internal post she quit after being ‘harassed’ over views on diversity

Salvador Rodriguez, CNBC Published 3:56 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019 | Updated 4:04 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019

 

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A Facebook engineering manager who ran an open-source project left earlier this month after being harassed by her colleagues.

Sophie Alpert said in an internal post that she wants “to spend my time at a place willing to push further on diversity and inclusion.”

Facebook’s diversity has been improving, but the company is still largely white and male.

On Jan. 11, Sophie Alpert, a Facebook engineering manager who ran a major open-source project called React, made an announcement on Twitter: “today’s my last day at Facebook.”

 

In the tweet, which got 3,600 likes and elicited 247 comments, Alpert said she was leaving to join a start-up called Humu. But she neglected to tell her more than 41,000 followers the reason for her abrupt departure.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/01/17/facebook-manager-quits-after-being-harassed-over-views-diversity/2605477002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

Anonymous ID: 644458 Jan. 17, 2019, 1:30 p.m. No.4795422   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Anti-graft fight work in progress

 

JAKARTA • Indonesia's top anti-graft investigator Novel Baswedan was leading a probe into a major electronic identity card graft case when his face was splashed with acid in April 2017.

 

Two men on a motorcycle carried out the attack as he was leaving a mosque near his home in Jakarta. The hit has left Mr Novel, the cousin of Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan, partially blind despite intensive treatment at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

 

The failure of the police to find the perpetrators of the shocking attack after nearly two years is a rare, but significant, blemish on President Joko Widodo's record against corruption.

 

Last week, bomb devices were found at the homes of two senior officials from the Corruption Eradication Commission, the agency that Mr Novel works for.

 

One official had a molotov cocktail thrown at his house, while a device resembling a pipe bomb was found at the other official's gate.

 

Eradicating corruption remains an uphill battle in Indonesia, where Parliament was considered to be the most corrupt institution in a 2017 survey by Transparency International Indonesia.

 

The case Mr Novel was working on had caused 2.3 trillion rupiah (S$219 million) in state losses, and implicated many MPs, including former parliamentary Speaker Setya Novanto, and other high-ranking officials, including a police general.

 

Setya was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years' jail last April.

 

The battle against rampant corruption in Indonesia has slowed down, according to the annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Berlin-based Transparency International.

 

Indonesia was at the 88th position out of 168 countries surveyed in the 2015 CPI. Countries perceived as less corrupt are in the top positions. Indonesia slipped to 96th out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2017 CPI, down by six places from the 2016 CPI.

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/anti-graft-fight-work-in-progress

Anonymous ID: 644458 Jan. 17, 2019, 1:31 p.m. No.4795445   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5594

Wealthy Europeans call in the movers as no-deal split looms

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LONDON • With the Brexit deadline less than 75 days away, the increasing likelihood of a no-deal split is pushing wealthy Europeans who have made their homes in Britain to call it a day and get the movers in.

 

Mr Anthony Ward Thomas, founder of a firm of the same name that specialises in overseas relocation, dealt with 296 moves away from Britain last year, an 82 per cent rise. Favoured destinations include Paris, Brussels, Zurich and Geneva, as well as southern France and Spanish locations like Majorca.

 

The timing suggests a reaction not so much to Brexit itself, but the handling of negotiations, Mr Ward Thomas said. Customers are typically wealthy, having at least £5 million (S$8.7 million) at their disposal, and mostly European Union citizens moving with their families, including retirees seeking warmer weather but also favouring more stable political systems.

 

"I wouldn't say it is because of Brexit with a capital 'b', but the fact that we find ourselves in such a mess," he said in a phone interview. "People are leaving the ship because the ship itself is foundering."

 

The exodus may accelerate after the rejection of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal. With no end to the saga in sight, people "who have been sitting on their hands" may now be moved to make some life-changing decisions, he said.

 

Popular destinations also include United Kingdom crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, which do not apply capital gains or inheritance tax. Relocation inquiries increased by more than 50 per cent in the second half of last year compared with the first six months, according to Ms Jo Stoddart, director of Locate Guernsey.

 

Italy has also emerged as a magnet for moves, spurred by Brexit and the introduction of a new tax regime two years ago, said Mr Francesco Tesi, senior associate adviser of Lionard Luxury Real Estate. The country was previously a focus mainly for second-home owners. "Now, it is a hedge-fund manager or an entrepreneur," he said.

 

Mr Ward Thomas has not yet seen an uptick in corporate relocations. Though with many companies saying a non-negotiated exit would be disastrous for their UK operations, he said some are laying the groundwork for moves.

 

A continued flight of EU nationals would bring a boost for the industry after three years of lacklustre growth, which the British Association of Removers said has been a consequence of people awaiting the outcome of Brexit. To be sure, the most recent official figures, for the quarter to June, still show a net inflow of migrants to Britain from the EU, though the gap has shrunk to the narrowest in six years.

 

Brexit has also been blamed for a downturn in London property values, though that could dissuade some home owners from leaving, as people who put their houses on the market face the lowest chances of securing a sale in 10 years.

 

Mr Ward Thomas, though, said continuing uncertainty around Brexit could further boost demand by increasing the chances of the Labour Party coming to power, with its pledges to redistribute wealth. The "prospect of a (Jeremy) Corbyn government", he said, is fuelling "a desire to realise the value of assets in the UK and move to a new tax domain".

 

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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/wealthy-europeans-call-in-the-movers-as-no-deal-split-looms

Anonymous ID: 644458 Jan. 17, 2019, 1:37 p.m. No.4795529   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Latest: Chinese envoy warns Canada over Huawei case

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Jan 17, 2019, 4:17 PM ET

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The latest on the fight between China and Canada over the arrest of a Chinese technology executive (all times local):

 

5:15 a.m.

 

China's ambassador to Canada says the arrest by Canadian authorities of a Huawei Technologies executive was an act of "backstabbing" by a friend and he warns of repercussions if Canada bars the company from its new 5G network for security reasons.

 

In a rare interview with Canadian journalists Thursday, Chinese Ambassador Lu Shaye also warned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against recruiting international support in Canada's feud with China. He says it would be a bad idea for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to use the upcoming World Economic Forum summit in Davos to press that case.

 

The arrest of Chinese executive Meng Wanzhou while she was traveling through the Vancouver airport Dec. 1 created a growing diplomatic rift. Meng is the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei and the daughter of its founder. The U.S. wants her extradited on fraud charges.

 

China detained two Canadians shortly after her arrest in an apparent attempt to pressure Canada to release her.

 

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China has rejected the Canadian foreign minister's statement that Chinese detentions of Canadians pose a threat to all countries.

 

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Thursday that Canada instead poses a threat to Chinese by detaining a Chinese citizen for "no reason." She was referring to the arrest of a Chinese telecoms executive at the request of the United States.

 

China detained two Canadians shortly after the executive's arrest in what Western analysts see as an attempt to pressure Canada to release her.

 

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said earlier this week that "the arbitrary detentions of Canadians … represent a way of behaving which is a threat to all countries."

 

Hua said Freeland may have spoken without thinking, and that such remarks won't help settle the issue.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-chinese-envoy-warns-canada-huawei-case-60452502

Anonymous ID: 644458 Jan. 17, 2019, 2:04 p.m. No.4795890   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5909

WATCH: AOC Freaks Out That She Can’t Find McConnell; Doesn’t Realize She’s In The WRONG BUILDING January 17, 2019 Frank

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Rookie Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was trying to pull off a stunt while she went on a hunt for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but she was in the wrong building.

 

She wanted to confront McConnell in-person to discuss the government shutdown, but she couldn’t find him. She was rushing around with a letter that would urge him to vote for the government to reopen and deal with border wall discussions another time.

 

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She made it seem like McConnell was in hiding or nowhere to be found, but it turned out that Ocasio-Cortez and her Democrat friends were in the wrong building.

 

They called the stunt #WheresMitch on Twitter, but unfortunately for them they eventually realized they were in the wrong office. Although, they still delivered the letter urging him to vote to reopen government to his chief of staff and reportedly declined to “stake out the Senate floor” according to Fox News.

 

The stunt – dubbed #WheresMitch on social media – came to an unceremonious and anti-climactic end after the pack first went to the wrong office of McConnell, then delivered the letter to his chief of staff, and ultimately declined to stake out the Senate floor.

 

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