News Headlines - 14 July 2019
The Sunday Times reported earlier that unnamed government sources said a suspect had been identified and the possibility of a foreign state computer hack had been ruled out.
Scotland Yard and the intelligence services believe a civil servant with access to historical Foreign Office files mounted a recent raid to steal the material, according to the newspaper... Intelligence officials from GCHQ are also to join the investigation to find the suspect, reports say.
▽Huawei Plans Extensive Layoffs in the U.S. - WSJ
Huawei Technologies Co. is planning extensive layoffs at its U.S. operations, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Chinese technology giant continues to struggle with its American blacklisting.
The layoffs are expected to affect workers at Huawei’s U.S.-based research and development subsidiary, Futurewei Technologies, according to these people. The unit employs about 850 people in research labs across the U.S., including in Texas, California and Washington state.
▽China considers limited support for petrol-electric hybrids in boon for Toyota, Honda - Reuters
China is considering re-classifying petrol-electric hybrid vehicles so they get more favorable treatment than all-petrol or diesel counterparts under clean car rules, making it easier for automakers to meet environment quotas and offer more choice.
Global hybrid leaders Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co Ltd would be among the biggest beneficiaries of such change, which could allow them to make more hybrids and less of the more costly all-electric vehicles, experts said, after reviewing the draft policy proposal published on Tuesday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
▽Taiwan's Tsai arrives in NY for transit amid Chinese protests - The Mainichi
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York on Thursday en route to diplomatic allies in the Caribbean amid Chinese calls for the United States to reject her transit stops... She later met with permanent representatives to the United Nations of Taiwan's diplomatic allies, according to the Presidential Office. It is the first time the president of Taiwan has ever done so in New York, where the United Nations is headquartered.
On Friday, Tsai will attend a business summit attended by U.S. business leaders. She will also host at a dinner organized by Taiwanese compatriots, to which Eliot Engel, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, and Steve Chabot, co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Taiwan Caucus, have been invited.
▽Outpouring of support in Russia for sisters who killed abusive father - Reuters
One summer night last year, sisters Krestina, Angelina and Maria Khachaturyan went into the room where their 57-year-old father Mikhail was sleeping and attacked him with pepper spray, a knife and a hammer.
The sisters are now on trial for his murder, but thousands of people have come out in support of them, saying the sisters were defending themselves from an abusive father after being failed by a Russian legal system that, critics say, turns a blind eye to domestic abuse.
The outpouring of support - over 230,000 people signed a petition asking to free the sisters from criminal charges - was in part because many women believe unless the system is changed, anyone could end up in their same situation.
