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Photo: ITU Singapore enjoys one of the lowest crime rates in the world. While most types of crimes are decreasing, cyber crimes in Singapore nearly doubled in proportion between 2014 and last year, rising from 7.9%...

Photo: Intel Free Press/Wikimedia Commons Americans spent $ 6.59 billion this Cyber Monday, making it the largest online shopping day with phone sales touching $ 2 billion in a single day for the first time. The...

In the end it were not the lawbreakers who got punished but the law minister who resigned from position as the state bowed to religious zealots. Pakistan’s government and the state failed so miserably in the...

Photo: Fabio Lanari/Wikimedia Commons This month the Federal Communications Commission announced its intent to eliminate rules that currently make the Internet available to all without any discrimination in speed and content just like other utilities under...

In a time of conflicting clamor, it is hard for those serving quietly to make their voices heard. Noor Naghmi, a Pakistani-American actor and producer, has attempted to give voice to medical doctors from his country...

Photo: E-commerce concept image Credit: Varun S/Wikimedia Commons The holiday shopping season began with a resounding rise in online sales, with American retailers chalking up $ 7.9 billion in sales. And that is not all as...

A crowd of religious zealots blocking entrance to capital Islamabad for weeks turned violent Saturday in the face of Police crackdown after which the government deployed army to quell the protesters. The protesters belonging to Tehreek-e-Labaiq...

Bezos’ Iconic Laugh, Photo:  Steve Jurvetson /Wikimedia Commons Headlines competed against one another as Americans began the holiday shopping season with a spree across the product stream on Black Friday – doorbusters, raging consumerism, gadgets, clothes,...

State Department HQ in Washington D.C. Photo:  AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia Commons The United States said Friday it is “deeply concerned” that Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) leader Hafiz Saeed has been released from house arrest in Pakistan. “LeT is a designated...

Photo: The White House/Cropped by User:Siqbal/Wikimedia Commons Saudi Arabia’s reform-seeking Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman aims to recover around $100 billion from 200 princes and businessmen implicated in a sweeping crackdown on corruption. The majority of...