Saturday, October 11, 2014

Trung Quốc kết án tử hình hai tín đồ giáo phái cực đoan

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Trung Quốc hôm nay kết án tử hình hai thành viên của một giáo phái được coi là cực đoan nhất ở nước này, sau khi họ sát hại một phụ nữ vì cô từ chối gia nhập nhóm.

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Các tín đồ giáo phái cực đoan trong phiên xét xử tại Tòa án nhân dân trung cấp Yên Đài, Sơn Đông, Trung Quốc. Ảnh: Xinhua
Nạn nhân 37 tuổi bị một nhóm các thành viên của cái gọi là Toàn năng thần giáo tấn công hồi tháng 5, tại một nhà hàng đồ ăn nhanh ở tỉnh Sơn Đông. Những người này đã cố thuyết phục người phụ nữ gia nhập nhóm, nhưng khi cô từ chối cho họ số điện thoại, họ lao vào đánh đập cô đến chết. Vụ việc làm dấy lên phẫn nộ trên toàn Trung Quốc.
Theo Xinhua, Tòa án nhân dân trung cấp Yên Đài đã kết án tử hình hai bị cáo Trương Phàm và Trương Lập Đông với tội danh cố ý giết người. Đồng bọn của hai hung thủ, Lữ Nghênh Xuân, lĩnh án tù chung thân. Hai tín đồ khác thuộc giáo phái cũng tham gia vụ sát hại là Trương Hằng và Trương Xảo Liên bị kết án lần lượt 10 năm và 7 năm tù. 
Toàn năng thần giáo được thành lập tại tỉnh Hà Nam. Những người theo giáo phái này tin rằng Chúa Jesus đã tái sinh trong hình hài người phụ nữ Trung Quốc có tên Dương Hướng Bân, vợ của người sáng lập giáo phái, Triệu Duy Sơn. Hai người này trốn sang Mỹ vào tháng 9/2000, sau khi bị cảnh sát Trung Quốc đưa vào danh sách truy nã.
Giáo phái cực đoan xúi giục tín đồ tiêu diệt "con rồng đỏ", ám chỉ đảng Cộng sản Trung Quốc. Bắc Kinh năm 2012 tiến hành chiến dịch truy quét nhóm này.
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Trương Phàm (trái) và Trương Lập Đông (phải), hai tín đồ lĩnh án tử hình. Ảnh:Xinhua
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Record number of data complaints made to ICO


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Nuisance calls were once again a major driver of complaints, the ICO said

The UK's information commissioner has called for better funding for the country's data regulator amid a record number of cases.
Ahead of the release of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) annual report, Christopher Graham said the body needed "stronger powers".
In the past year, the ICO issued £1.97m in penalties to companies found to breach data protection rules.
The report highlighted a high number of incidents involving local government.
"In particular, the disclosure of personal data in error," the report read.
In one example, a probation officer pleaded guilty to revealing the new address of a domestic violence victim to the alleged perpetrator. The officer was fined £150, and had to pay £280 in costs.
The ICO said it resolved 15,492 data protection complaints in the last financial year - a 10% rise on the previous 12 months. The number of calls to its advice helpline rose by more than 15%.
The ICO secured 12 criminal convictions and two cautions for the unlawful obtaining or disclosing of personal data.

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In another incident, the ICO intervened when Staffordshire Police ran a Twitter campaign naming people charged with drink driving.
"Whilst releasing some details of people charged with criminal offences is acceptable," the ICO ruled, "using a hashtag '#drinkdrivers' is potentially misleading as it implies guilt."
One data security expert said that the ICO had a strong argument for deserving more funds.
"While penalties totalling £1,97m were issued, the ICO only collected £872,000, thanks to a combination of early payment reductions, appeals and impairments," said Chris McIntosh, chief executive of ViaSat UK.
"This is a situation that clearly favours those organisations with the resources to either reduce penalties through early payment or mount a challenge against a judgement.
"Yet with increased funding and powers, the ICO could not only make sure that penalties, financial or otherwise, matched the severity of an offence. It could make its investigations even more thorough: reducing the chances of appeals and making sure that its eventual judgement was both fair and final."

'Ever-growing'

At the launch of the report on Tuesday, Mr Graham said: "Facebook, [NHS] care data, Google: it is clear that organisations' use of data is getting ever more complicated. People need to know someone is watching over their information.
"Independence means someone who's got the resources to take on this ever-growing number of cases. The last 12 months have been a record year - more complaints resolved than ever, more enforcement action taken and more advice given through our helpline.
"And it also means having the powers to act on the more serious complaints. A strong regulator is needed if a data breach affects millions of people.

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The ICO reopened its investigation after a US probe uncovered more detail about the data captured

"To do our job properly, to represent people properly, we need stronger powers, more sustainable funding and a clearer guarantee of independence."
The ICO in the past has been criticised for both being too lenient, and not thorough enough, when investigating companies.
The ICO was described as "sadly lacking" by privacy campaigners when it dropped a 2010 investigation into Google's scooping up of personal information from wi-fi networks when taking pictures for its Street View product.
The ICO dropped its investigation after receiving reassurances from Google - only to re-open it in 2012 after US regulators found wrongdoing on Google's part.
In that year's annual report, it admitted it had not issued a single fine to any firm. However, new powers granted in January 2012 made it easier for the ICO to fine large amounts.
In this year's report, the highest number of complaints relate to nuisance calls. Over the 12 months, 161,720 complaints were made - 46% of which related to automated calls.


Friday, February 28, 2014

How to Pick Your Life Partner

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To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this:
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The Rap Ode To Muffin Tops You Didn't Know You Needed


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Thoughts From the 'Ugly Friend'

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From the minute we are born, we are shoved full of contradicting notions that our bodies are both beautiful and not good enough. We see the images of gorgeous models and wonder why we are not more like them, but then hear campaigns telling us that this is all Photoshopped nonsense and that "real women" are beautiful.
I find that these "think pieces" about real beauty and body image are great for a confidence booster, but they carry very little weight in the real world. I've found that there is something that works for me and carries me through because it is the only, sometimes heart-crushing, reality I have. I have accepted the fact that I am the ugly friend.

I Didn't Have Sex for a Year, and I'm Still Married

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Married parents have been under attack lately, from all angles. This month, we've heard that longtime married couples in the kind of egalitarian and committed partnerships that the women of my generation -- raised under the '80s roof of divorce and disappointment -- strived for don't have sex as often as, well, anyone else. If we'remarried with kids, we might as well just forget romance: Maybe we brush each other's dishpan hands as we complaisantly pass the peas from freezer to microwave or fold endless, laundered sock pairs into balls, or once in a blue moon slam together to breed. But that's it.
We're miserable parents, too, it seems, all joy and no fun (though we wouldn't change it for a million childless, 20-something, tipsy, heart-racing, very-definition-of-freedom nights).