Information & Technology

Facebook owner Meta’s use of algorithms to promote user engagement and increase ad revenue contributed to anti-Rohingya sentiment in Myanmar ahead of a brutal military campaign against the ethnic group in 2017, rights group Amnesty International said Thursday. In a new report entitled, “The Social Atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya,” Amnesty lays out how Meta failed to prevent Facebook from amplifying the kind of hateful rhetoric that led to communal violence against the ethnic group and a state-sanctioned “clearance operation” in 2017 that forced more than 700,000 across the border to Bangladesh, where many continue

YANGON, Jun 18 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar’s Ministry of Education announced yesterday that, 132,077 students passed their high school graduation exam for the 2021-2022 academic year.The country’s matriculation exam pass rate this year was 46.88 percent, up by…

Security concerns led to a dramatic decline in the number of students who registered for the first university entrance exams in Myanmar since the military coup, sources said Thursday, citing ongoing unrest and armed conflict in the Southeast Asian nati…

The European Union plans to take the unprecedented step of funding weapons purchases for Ukraine, EU officials said on Feb. 27 as the bloc announced a raft of new sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The EU’s plan to fund weapons purch…

With the Indian capital enveloped in a haze of toxic smog, authorities ordered six thermal plants in the city’s vicinity to shut temporarily, closed schools and colleges indefinitely and imposed work-from-home restrictions to control pollution levels t…

Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, called Friday for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for anyone who was fully vaccinated at least six months ago, as the nation faces a fourth wave of coronavirus infections.Speaking to reporters following a two-day s…

Facing staff shortages, public schools in Nebraska’s largest city have turned to bilingual high school students to interpret when families talk with teachers during report card conferences.The Omaha school district has some full-time bilingual liaisons…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wednesday awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to two scientists for their work – independently – in developing a new way of building molecules, a process with applications throughout industry.Speaking in Stoc…