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More Americans disapprove of Sony film cancellation: Reuters/Ipsos poll
(Reuters) – Nearly half of Americans believe Sony Pictures made the wrong decision by canceling the theatrical release of the comedy “The Interview,” the film that provoked a cyberattack on the studio, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. Forty-seven percent of respondents said they disagreed with Sony scrapping the film last Wednesday, after several movie theater chains chose not to screen the raunchy satire that depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim […]
UN Security council discusses Nokor human rights
The UN Security Council today kicked off a debate on human rights in the Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Korea, with a call that a case be referred to the International Criminal Court. Ivan Šimonović. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said, “Rarely has such an extensive charge-sheet of international crimes been brought to this Council’s attention.” Šimonović said a UN-backed report before the council had reported, “Victims of extermination. Of murder, enslavement and torture. Of rape, […]
North Korea’s Internet links restored amid U.S. hacking dispute
North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New Hampshire-based Dyn said the reason for the outage was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. Several U.S. officials close to the investigations of the attack on Sony Pictures said […]
With New Fiberglass Bancas, Fishers No Longer Fear the Sea
“My father has always been a Pescador, our term for fishermen,” says Cocoy Garcia, a 38-year old fisher, as we strolled around his stilt village in Culion, Northern Palawan. “I was nine when he first took me out. We caught baskets of squid that first night, lured in by the glow of our petromax lamp.” Together, Cocoy and his father fished for decades. The old Pescador taught his son the age-old skills of the sea […]
Cyber attack of NoKor is not an Act of War – Obama
United States President Barack Obama said that the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was “not an act of war” on North Korea which it suspected for hacking the controversial movie, “The Interview.” For several years now, North Korea has been on the radar of the U.S. long been on the wrong side of the United States. Whatever tension there was between the two has just become more severe. The recent massive hacking of movie giant, […]
PHL Consul General meets with Hawaii Governor and Lt. Governor
Philippine Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin made a courtesy visit on Hawaii Governor David Ige and Lt. Governor Shan Tsutsui at their offices at the Hawaii State Capitol on December 17. Consul General Jamoralin congratulated Governor Ige on his inauguration as Hawaii’s 8th governor last December 01. Consul General Jamoralin attended the Governor’s inauguration party on December 05. She thanked Governor Ige for the offer of assistance following the onslaught of Typhoon Hagupit. Governor Ige […]
North Korea suffers Internet outage, hacking may be to blame, says U.S. expert
(Reuters) – North Korea experienced Internet outages on Monday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said, adding that the reason for the problems was not known. “For the past 24 hours North Korea’s connectivity to the outside world has been progressively getting degraded to the point now that they are totally offline,” said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at New Hampshire-based Dyn Research. “There’s either a benign explanation – their routers are perhaps […]
Raspy-voiced British soul singer Joe Cocker dies at 70
Raspy-voiced, Grammy-winning singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends” and “You Are So Beautiful,” has died, his agent said on Monday (December 22, 2014). He was 70. The death was confirmed by Marshall Arts, the company of Cocker’s agent, Barrie Marshall, in England, which gave no other details. Cocker was born in Sheffield, England, and worked as a gas fitter while pursuing a singing […]
U.N.: Children maimed, raped, tortured, killed in 2014
The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has declared 2014 a devastating year for children, with as many as 15 million caught in conflicts in Central African Republic, Iraq,South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and the Palestinian territories. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said earlier this month the high number of crises meant many of them were quickly forgotten or failed to capture global headlines, such as inAfghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. […]
Bombs in north Nigeria bus station, market kill 27
(Reuters) – Two bomb attacks at a bus station and a market in north Nigeria on Monday killed at least 27 people and wounded around 60, officials said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for either attack. Boko Haram insurgents have repeatedly set off bombs targeting civilians, especially in the northeast where they are trying to carve out an Islamic state. The first one, in the city of Gombe, involved two explosions in quick succession. “The […]
Over 15,000 gather in Dresden for latest anti-immigration demo – police
Anti-immigration movement PEGIDA gathered in Dresden on Monday (December 22) for the latest in a series of public actions criticising the German government for ignoring its fears of being overrun by Muslims. According to police estimates, 17,500 demonstrators from the grass-rootsmovement staged a rally in front of the city’s Semperoper opera house, waving flags and holding banners reading: “Against religious fanaticism”. Grass-roots movement PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, has drawn […]
