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Author: Rolando Garcia
Rolando Garcia has been a technology writer for the last 15 years and has worked with world-leading technology brands on countless tech writing projects. He is a graduate from The University of Sydney with a degree in Engineering and Computer Science.
The pound allegedly hit a new two-month high against the euro after the news of Sajid Javid’s resignation and Rishi Sunak’s promotion came, hitting €1.20 for the first time since December’s election. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer has declared that he was “delighted to be appointed” and there was “lots to get on with”. On Thursday, Sterling also rose against the dollar. Sunak has made his arrival at No 11 Downing Street via public school, Oxford and Goldman Sachs. Sunak’s family is in India. However, Sunak’s grandparents came from Punjab and immigrated to Britain from East Africa in the…
The Chinese military surgeon Dr Jiang Yanyong (88), who exposed the government’s cover-up of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in the year 2003 has been placed under house arrest since last year, according to his family and friends. Yanyong, is a retired general in the People’s Liberation Army, has come to the spotlight after a whistleblower doctor, Li Wenliang, who exposed the coronavirus epidemic, died last Friday at the age of 34. According to his close friend, Jiang has no contact with the outside world even his movements had been restricted since April last year, it happened after…
The death of a young doctor Li Wenliang, who warned China about the new virus and was even reprimanded for it, triggered an outpouring Friday of praise for him and fury that communist authorities put politics above public safety. The 34-year-old doctor died overnight at Wuhan Central Hospital, where he used to work and most likely contracted the virus while he was treating patients in the early days of the outbreak. The China Center for Disease Control’s chief scientist, Zeng Guang, wrote: service. “A hero who released information about Wuhan’s epidemic in the early stage, Dr. Li Wenliang is immortal,”…
At the age of 12, Nkosi Johnson died after having Aids. Nkosi was allegedly born with HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. He died in the year 2001 and he was the longest-surviving child born with HIV. On Tuesday, which would have been Nkosi’s 31st birthday, Google is paid tribute to him by having him as their homepage doodle. Nkosi’s mum was also HIV positive and was too ill to look after him, so a public relations officer from an Aids care center adopted him. In 1997, Nkosi’s name became known when a local primary school refused to take him in…
Teenage supermodel Kaia Gerber is alleged to sit on the jury of one of the most prestigious fashion prizes. The 18-year-old American, who is the daughter of former catwalk queen Cindy Crawford, has also been one of the stars of Paris fashion fortnight. Gerber will allegedly be sitting on the jury of the Hyeres fashion festival on the French Riviera scheduled for the end of April, she along with other jury members will be deciding one of the top prizes for rising young designers. The model recently a headline when she wore a spectacular wedding dress that closed the Givenchy…
Once again Pamela Anderson walked down the aisle. Now she got hitched to movie mogul Jon Peters in a secret ceremony in Malibu, Calif. and her son Brandon Thomas Lee, 23, couldn’t be happier for her. In an exclusive statement, the 23-year-old said that he’s full of support for the newlyweds. He said, “I’m incredibly happy for my mom and Jon. They’ve known each other for over 35 years and I wish them luck in this next chapter of their lives together. I will support the happy couple however I can and I’m excited to get to know Jon’s family…
Bollywood actress Disha Patani and Chef Sanjeev Kapoor have been roped in as brand ambassadors for ‘Washington Apples’. In 2001, India opened its market for the US apples that was the time when only four containers were shipped. Today, the US apples have a market share of approx. 16% in India’s imported apples. US Ambassador to India, Kenneth I Juster said in a statement, “Export of the US apples is rising every year. Between March and July, apples are exported to India when domestic supplies in India are exhausted.” There are about 30-odd varieties of US apples and only four…
Kim Hyun-ah, better known as Hyun Ah, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and model. In 2007 she debuted as a member of the girl group Wonder Girls. South Korean bombshell Hyun Ah knows how to keep her 12.5 Million followers engaged, she knows everyone loves her and why not she is a hard-working, skilled and beautiful. She posted two pictures, one by one. In the post, Hyun Ah poses sitting on black-tiled glossy flooring, behind her is electric blue colour wall and door. Hyun Ah wore a greenish tank top, black denim short with front laced long black boots.…
Recently an Israeli model, Arbel Kynan declared that a Lebanese fashion designer removed her from Paris Fashion Show, because of her nationality. Kynan took to her Instagram and detailed the experience: “Truthfully … it’s still hard for me to digest. At the end of the day, we are all human, no matter what our origin, race skin color or whatever. Be human! This is the most important!” The model said that she arrived in Paris a few days ago to be photographed by a “very respectable fashion company,” she was even told beforehand that she would also walk in the…
This is the first response from tech giant CEO on India’s citizenship debate. Indian immigrant in the US Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has called India’s new citizenship bill bad and sad. Although it was not clear if Nadella is called CAA bad or whether he was saying on the issue of this whole controversy around who is an Indian citizen and who is not, the Microsoft CEO seems to be hinting that immigration is good for a country. Nadella made his comments to Ben Smith, editor of Buzzfeed who questioned him about the citizenship controversy in India. In a…