The
original complaint, taken by Austrian law student Max Schrems (above)
against Irish Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes (below), argues
that the DPC took the wrong decision in refusing to investigate whether
Schrems’s Facebook data was given adequate protection
The Department of Foreign Affairs: organised training and briefing programme. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
German minister for foreign affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) speaks
to media as he arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU
Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photograph: Julein
Warnand/EPA
Vehicle
light trails pass the Kingdom Tower on King Fahad Road in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. The country’s market regulator said it will open the Arab
world’s biggest bourse to international investors by the middle of 2015.
Photograph: Waseem Obaidi/Bloomberg
Un trabajador chino en una fábrica de vasos en Zhuzhou, China.
On
a quarterly basis, the National Bureau of Statistics said growth picked
up to 2 per cent from a revised 1.5 per cent in the first quarter
Jacob
“Jack” Lew, US treasury secretary. Mr Lew has urged members of
Congress to pass legislation immediately to stop US companies from
shifting their legal addresses overseas
Rice growing in India. New Delhi is unhappy with the progress of talks on food security
The
value of Irish exports increased by €1 billion in May, preliminary
figures from the Central Statistics Office show. Photo: Bloomberg
MSC
and AP Moller-Maersk, the parent company of Maersk Line, said 185
vessels would be shared, including 20 of Maersk’s giant Triple-E ships.
Photograph: Reuters
Wall
Street gloom extended into Asia over-night, after major US stock
indexes sagged as investors turned cautious before the start of earnings
season.
A
disappointing PMI survey for the Eurozone’s manufacturing sector is
raising concerns that the euro zone recovery is losing momentum.
Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg
New
orders rose at the fastest pace in over three years in June, with the
UK and Asia key sources of growth in export business during the month.
Photgraph: Getty
The St. Petersburg Times (Published: June 24, 2014 (Issue # 1816) (Click here to original new)
President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday simplifying the process
for foreign journalists and IT specialists to work in Russia, a
statement on the Kremlin’s website said.
Previously, to gain the status of a highly qualified specialist, a
journalist was required to earn a salary of at least 2 million rubles
($59,000) per year. The new law reduces this sum to 1 million.
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International payment systems Visa and MasterCard could get a reprieve
until Oct. 31 on a security deposit of up to $2.9 billion that the
Russian government has demanded they pay if they are to continue
operating in Russia.
According to a draft bill by the Finance Ministry published Wednesday on
the government's legislation portal, payment systems operating in
Russia can be freed from the obligation to pay a security deposit until
Nov. 1 this year — on one condition. To receive the exemption, the
companies will need to stop providing information about money transfers
carried out in Russia to clearing centers abroad.
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Under the Obama administration, US policy has rebalanced or pivoted towards Asia.
