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By Boom Staff Editor's Note: For our Decode Voices section, we will be documenting personal experiences with the Internet and online platforms. Technology, privacy, law and policy will be touched upon through these stories. In this story, Swati Thapa tells Kaisar Andrabi how she almost got scammed by someone pretending to be from FedEx. On an early cold morning on January10, in a yes-no situation to get off my bed, my phone rang. It disturbed the leftover sleep and I attended the call. A soft-spoken woman with a refined Indian English accent identified herself as a customer care operator from ...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video showing a child hanging on to a giant kite while being lifted high in the air is being shared on social media with the claim that it shows a 3-year old girl being lifted by a giant kite in Ahmedabad. BOOM found this claim to be false; the video is from 2020, and shows a 3-year-old being lifted high in the air after getting entangled in a giant kite at a kite festival in Taiwan, in the northern city of Hsinchu. Also Read:Clipped Video Of Rahul Gandhi Pausing During Aarti Viral With False Claim We found the video being shared on WhatsApp with the caption, "Three year ...
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By BOOM Team At least one person was killed in a strong earthquake that shook Taiwan on Sunday, causing massive damage to infrastructure and property in the country's southeastern part. Reports suggest that over 70 aftershocks were recorded in the aftermath of the earthquake that was felt across the country. Rescue and relief operations continued on Monday. The country also had an earthquake on Saturday night. Here's a look at how the earthquake has affected the nation: Also Read:What Is The SCO And What To Expect From PM Modi's Samarkand Trip What happened? An earthquake of 6.8 magnitudes hit...
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By Sourit Sanyal Super typhoon Hinnamnor, the largest typhoon in 2022, is likely to affect several regions in Taiwan, Japan, China and the Philippines. While the Meteorological Agency of Japan issued a warning saying the typhoon was rapidly advancing towards the southern islands of Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan also issued weather warnings. Japan's weather agency prompted warnings for residents of these southern islands to seek shelter before the typhoon worsens the dangerous situation, The Japan Times reported. Okinawa received strong winds as the typhoon moved closer to the islands on Th...
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By The Conversation "Strategic ambiguity" – the policy that has underpinned the West's defence of Taiwan for half a century or more – rests on another ambiguity: Taiwan's status in international law. And that status matters because it could help us answer three questions: does China have a legal right to restore control over its own territory by force?do Taiwan and its allies have a legal right to resist such an attack?might Taiwan even have the right to declare independence?The islands we know as Taiwan have been inhabited for 30,000 years, including by successive waves of peoples from mainla...
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By The Conversation The People's Republic of China (PRC) has reportedly fired several DF-15B ballistic missiles into the seas around Taiwan as part of large-scale military drills announced in response to the visit this week by the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. The areas chosen for these exercises are unprecedented in their proximity to Taiwan, coming much closer than those of the previous Taiwan Straits Crisis in 1995-1996 and dramatically raising tensions in the region. Taiwan's defence ministry has denounced the drills as tantamount to a military blockade of the i...
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By The Conversation One aspect of Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan that has been largely overlooked is her meeting with Mark Lui, chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC). Pelosi's trip coincided with US efforts to convince TSMC – the world's largest chip manufacturer, on which the US is heavily dependent – to establish a manufacturing base in the US and to stop making advanced chips for Chinese companies. US support for Taiwan has historically been based on Washington's opposition to communist rule in Beijing, and Taiwan's resistance to absorption by China. But in re...
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By The Conversation U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei, Taiwan, prompted warnings and threats from the Chinese government, but it is unlikely to upset her Taiwanese American and Chinese American constituents in San Francisco. Pelosi left Taiwan on Aug. 3, 2022, after a whirlwind 24-hour trip, during which she met with lawmakers and Tsai Ing-wen, president of Taiwan. While Pelosi defended her trip by writing that it shows the United States' "commitment to democracy," China responded with military drills and threats of future punishment for the U.S. and Taiwan. Also Read: Why Nanc...
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By Archis Chowdhury A black and white image showing a couple is viral on social media with the claim that it shows a young Nancy Pelosi, United States House speaker, with Chinese journalist and former editor of Global Times Hu Xijin. BOOM found this claim to be false; the image has been doctored by putting together an image of Pelosi, and an image of Xijin from two different photos. The image is being shared in the backdrop of Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan, making her the highest US official to visit the country, and creating a political and diplomatic stir between US and China. Also Read | ...
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By Archis Chowdhury A video showing military aircraft flying above warships is being shared on social media with the claim that it shows a recent instance of United States military aircraft flying near Taiwan. BOOM found this claim to be false; our fact-check revealed that the video being shared is more than a year old, and does not show any recent activities by US military aircraft near Taiwan. This claim is viral in the wake of US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan, making her the highest US official to visit the country in more than 25 years. Also Read | Old Aamir Khan Phot...
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