Donald Trump says daughter Ivanka would be ‘dynamite’ as Nikki Haley successor, and the China firm helping Indians answer calls with greasy hands.
Sexual assault victims need to show proof, says Melania Trump
US First Lady Melania Trump has said that while she supports victims of sexual assault, they need to have hard evidence before making accusations, reports CNN.
“If you accuse someone of something, show the evidence,” she said in an interview with ABC News during her African tour last week. She also said it was important to hear out men as much as women.
“You cannot just say to somebody you know ‘I was sexually assaulted’ or ‘you did that to me’, because sometimes the media goes too far,” she said, “And the way they portray some stories, it’s not correct. It’s not right.”
Her comments follow the row over sexual assault allegations against US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was recently sworn in as a judge in the top US court.
Ivanka will be dynamite as US envoy to United Nations, says Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump said his daughter Ivanka Trump would be a “dynamite” successor to Nikki Haley as the country’s ambassador to the United Nations, reports CNN.
“The people that know, know that Ivanka would be dynamite. But I would be then be accused of nepotism,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House.
Trump added that numerous people were being looked at to assume the post, suggesting, however, that none was a competition to Ivanka. The US First Daughter later took to Twitter to clarify that she will not be the replacement.
It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not be me.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) October 9, 2018
China revises law for ‘camps’ it claimed never existed
China seems to have officially recognised the so-called re-education camps for people accused of religious extremism, a few months after denying they existed at all, reports CNN.
Officials in China’s far-western Xinjiang region Tuesday revised a local law to encourage “vocational skill education training centres” to “carry out anti-extremist ideological education”. The training will include lessons in the national language, laws and regulations, and psychological and behavioral correction, the report adds.
International organisations have long accused China of detaining hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs — a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority native to the Xinjiang province — in such centres to force patriotism towards China, but Beijing has denied the claims.
Tuesday’s announcement to revise the law came after local leaders in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, declared the start of an anti-halal campaign, under which all police and government officials are to declare themselves “loyal Communist Party members” and give up religious beliefs to adopt “Marxism and Leninism” as their only faith.
Donald Trump says South Korea does nothing without US approval
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that South Korea would not lift sanctions against North Korea unless Washington allowed it it, Reuters reported.
Trump’s comments came after the South Korean foreign minister said some of its unilateral sanctions on North Korea were under review.
When asked about the foreign minister’s comments, Trump said, “They won’t do it without our approval. They do nothing without our approval.”
South Korean foreign minister Kang Kyung had suggested during a parliamentary audit Wednesday that Seoul was considering easing sanctions that it had imposed to encourage the North’s denuclearisation. The South had banned most bilateral trade and exchanges with the North in 2010, following an attack on a warship that killed six South Korean sailors.
How a Chinese phone maker has outrun Samsung & Apple in Africa
A Chinese mobile manufacturing company named Transsion that has not sold a single handset in its native country has outplayed international giants like Samsung and Apple in markets across Africa, reports CNN.
Transsion, whose flagship brand is known as Tecno, set up its shops in Africa alone, with no plans to come home.
“Transsion founder George Zhu had spent nearly a decade traveling Africa as head of sales for another mobile phone company when he realised that selling Africans handsets which were made for developed markets was a wrong approach,” the report states.
Tecno runs on the motto: “Think global, act local”. It understood African needs and developed handsets based on local demands. For example, Tecno cameras have been optimised for African complexions and can operate multiple sim cards. They are also priced to suit the local purchasing power.
“About 95 per cent of Transsion smartphones cost under $200,” CNN quoted Mo Jia, an analyst at technology research firm Canalys, as saying. “They are the king of the budget smartphone.”
Transsion launched in India in 2017, and within a year claimed 5 per cent of the market, according to research firm IDC, the CNN report adds. It tapped the Indian market with a very unique innovation: Considering the fact that Indian people eat with their hands, Tenco developed screens that can read greasy fingers.