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Japan is still winning the Southeast Asia infrastructure race against China, with pending projects worth almost one and a half times its rival, according to the latest data from Fitch Solutions. Japanese-backed projects in the region’s six biggest economies... Read more via Bloomberg –...

Typically when shopping for a new car, the song and dance at a dealership is pretty standard, including a salesperson riding shotgun on your test drive. But one dealership let a prospective buyer go out by herself, and, well, she didn’t come back.... Read more via Autoblog –...

On Thursday evening, U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group that supported last week’s limpet mine attacks on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials.... Read more via Yahoo News – Latest News & Headlines –...

Scammers apparently live by the motto “where there’s a will there’s a way.” Take the Google Calendar app. As Wired notes , criminals with malicious intent are taking advantage of one of the default settings on the app.... Read more via PhoneArena – News – http://bit.ly/2N4BkYV Get more...

Globally, a total of over two billion people currently suffer ‘hidden hunger,’ a condition of lack of vitamins and micronutrient in food. With this, farmers have been called to pay more attention to the … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News –...

Ethiopia’s army chief of staff has been shot, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on television Sunday as the government said it had thwarted an attempted coup in a regional state of this Horn of Africa nation. Abiy took to national television in … Read more via Capital News –...

Asali Bai, 20, came to Kenya in November last year hoping to find a way to support her family back home in Nepal. But when she got here, the young woman, who had been … Read more via Daily Nation | Home – http://bit.ly/2IYRkGQ Get more World News

South Australia is a crucial step closer to becoming one of few places in the world to decriminalise sex work. After 13 attempts in recent years, a bill for … Read more via “sexual health” – Google News – http://bit.ly/2L4cwhd Get more World News

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat low sexual drive in women, the only one besides Addyi, which entered the market in 2015. The drug, to be called Vyleesi, will be sold by AMAG Pharmaceuticals and is intended to be used 45 … Read more via NYT – Health –...