- EntertainmentAFP News
Demi Lovato reveals teen rape as tell-all documentary opens SXSW
US singer Demi Lovato revealed she was raped as a virgin during her teenage years as a Disney Channel actress and pop star, in a tell-all documentary that opened the online South By Southwest festival Tuesday.
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Eight killed in Atlanta-area shooting rampage; suspect arrested
Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead at a massage parlor and two day spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the attacks was arrested hours later in southern Georgia, police said. The rampage began at about 5 p.m. local time when four victims were killed and another was wounded in a shooting at Young's Asian Massage in Cherokee County, about 40 miles north of Atlanta, said Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department. Two women of Asian descent were among the dead there, along with a white woman and a white man, Baker said, adding that the surviving victim was an Hispanic man.
- NewsMalay Mail
Lawyer confirms notified of govt’s appeal against ‘Allah’ ruling, clarifies only one word used by BM-speaking Christians
KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — A lawyer for Sarawakian native Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill today confirmed having received notice of the federal government’s appeal against the High Court’s quashing of...
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Police investigating video of woman threatening to ‘destroy’ Christians over ‘Allah’
Allah for all? Not for this woman. This article, Police investigating video of woman threatening to ‘destroy’ Christians over ‘Allah’, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.
- BusinessReuters
Blacklisted Chinese firms eye lawsuits after Xiaomi win against Trump ban
Chinese companies targeted by a sweeping investment ban imposed by former President Donald Trump are considering suing the U.S. government after a federal judge on Friday suspended a similar blacklisting for Beijing-based smartphone maker Xiaomi. Lawyers familiar with the matter said some of the banned Chinese companies are in talks with law firms including Steptoe & Johnson and Hogan Lovells, emboldened by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras' preliminary order halting Xiaomi's inclusion on a U.S. list of alleged Communist Chinese military companies that are subject to an investment ban. The Trump administration's move to blacklist Xiaomi Corp, which knocked $10 billion off its market share and sent its shares down 9.5 percent in January, would have forced investors to completely divest their stakes in the company.
- CelebrityMalay Mail
Actress Emma Maembong pleads for public to look out for her maid who ran away
PETALING JAYA, March 16 — Malaysian actress Emma Maembong was disheartened to know that her maid had run away from her home. She posted a picture of her maid on Instagram asking the public to look...
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Video Huawei to Start Demanding 5G Royalties From Apple, Samsung
Mar.16 -- Huawei Technologies Co. is looking to create a lucrative new revenue source by charging mobile giants like Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. a reasonable fee for access to its trove of wireless 5G patents. Bloomberg’s Edwin Chan reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”
