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WASHINGTON: Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at US voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter ...

BANGKOK: With an intelligence network so good they have been compared to the CIA, Thai street vendors are often first on the scene at "guerilla" protests in Bangkok, where they hawk sour pork and fishballs to a hungry crowd. After a government crackdown last week, protest groups have begun...

Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter.

India's richest state Maharashtra has invited U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Inc, weeks after its Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk suggested entering the country next year.

SINGAPORE: The number of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats sold in the resale market in the third quarter rose by 127.3 per cent after the lifting of Singapore's "circuit breaker" in June.  Official figures released on Friday (Oct 23) showed that 7,787 flats were sold from July to ...

Hackers sponsored by Russia have been trying to break into U.S. state and local government computer networks and in two instances were successful, U.S. government agencies said on Thursday - the second major warning over foreign hacking in as many days.

LONDON: British government plans that could allow self-driving cars on motorways as soon as 2021 would put lives at risk because the available automated technology falls well short of human driving capabilities, UK insurance group Thatcham Research said on Friday. "We don't believe that this ...

SINGAPORE: Goldman Sachs Singapore will pay US$122 million (S$165 million) to the Singapore Government for its role in bond offerings related to 1MDB, the authorities said on Friday (Oct 23). The payment comes after Goldman Sachs entered a deferred prosecution agreement on Thursday with the ...

Cisco's video-conferencing app Webex clocked 590 million participants in September and is on track to record over 600 million this month, nearly double the numbers recorded in March when countries started shutting down due to the pandemic.

Iris Ohyama, whose goods are ubiquitous in Japanese homes, has relied on its usual offbeat methods during the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S.-China trade tensions to ride the teleworking wave and bring production back from China.