News Headlines - 22 July 2019
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech giant embroiled in President Trump’s trade war with China and blacklisted as a national security threat, secretly helped the North Korean government build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless network, according to internal documents obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the arrangement.
▽Former Huawei employees say client information was discussed at Chinese embassy | Radio Prague
The Czech branch of the Chinese company Huawei is suspected of collecting sensitive data on officials and businessmen through its employees. This material is allegedly gathered during business meetings and subsequently entered into a central database to which the company’s headquarters in China have access.
▽Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters beaten by masked attackers during latest civil unrest - ABC News
Masked men armed with sticks have attacked anti-government protesters at a train station amid another night of protests in Hong Kong.
The attacks happened as hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets again, clashing with police who fired rubber bullets and tear gas.
The opposition Democratic Party said it was investigating the train attack, which it said was carried out by suspected triad gangsters.
▽Abe wins upper house poll but suffers constitutional reform setback - The Mainichi
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition scored a solid win in Sunday's upper house election but his long-held hope of constitutional reform moved further out of reach after pro-amendment forces lost the seats essential to initiate it.
The coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, along with like-minded opposition and independent lawmakers, fell short of the 164 seats needed in the chamber to propose amending the pacifist Constitution after Sunday's election.
Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. President Akihiko Okamoto announced on July 22 that he would retract his company's termination of its management contract with comedian Hiroyuki Miyasako in connection with his paid appearance at a party for an "antisocial group."
Okamoto's announcement at a news conference in Tokyo came after Miyasako, who belongs to the comedy duo "Ameagari Kesshitai," and Ryo Tamura of comedy pair "London Boots Ichi-go Ni-go," held a news conference of their own, apologizing over the incident and their false explanations.
