News Headlines - 26 April 2017
▽Toshiba plans to replace auditor PwC after earnings impasse | Reuters
Toshiba Corp, the troubled Japanese conglomerate, wants to replace auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata (PwC) to resolve an impasse over full-year earnings and remain listed, two sources briefed on the matter said.
▽NZ spied on Japan as part of anti-whaling push: Snowden document - NZ Herald News
One outlines how New Zealand's Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB) collected information on Japan's lobbying for whaling.
That was then shared with an NSA agent before an International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska in 2007, the document states.
▽Phuket News - Man live streams video of suicide, daughter's murder
A young father and his 11-month-old baby were found hanging at an abandoned construction site for a hotel in an apparent murder-suicide in Nai Thon last night... At about 5:45pm, Mr Wuttisan, using his Facebook account under the name of ‘Tonkla Ja’, posted a four-minute live video of the horrific incident.
▽Jonathan Demme Dead: ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Director Was 73 | Variety
Demme is best known for directing “The Silence of the Lambs,” the 1991 horror-thriller that was a box office smash, a critical triumph, and introduced moviegoers to Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter, a charismatic serial with a yen for Chianti, fava beans, and cannibalism... Following “The Silence of the Lambs,” Demme used his clout to make “Philadelphia,” one of the first major studio films to tackle the AIDS crisis and a movie that won Tom Hanks his first Oscar for playing a gay lawyer.
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka was met with jeers from an audience in Berlin as she defended her father’s attitude towards women... She was booed when she described her father as a "tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive".
