Syria says 15,000 antiquities at risk in militia-run Idlib |
- Syria says 15,000 antiquities at risk in militia-run Idlib
- New Audi ad features exclusive ‘Avengers’ and ‘Ant-Man’ footage (VIDEO)
- New ‘Avengers’ and ‘Ant-Man’ footage courtesy of Audi
- Phone prepaid cards revert to old prices from May, says Ahmad Maslan
- AFP Video: Colombia transforms old tyres into green housing
- Microsoft debuts popular Office Lens app for iOS and Android
| Syria says 15,000 antiquities at risk in militia-run Idlib Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:20 AM PDT
The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and other insurgents took the provincial capital on Saturday for the first time in the four-year conflict against President Bashar al-Assad. "What has happened in Idlib is a true disaster. The worst catastrophe that has happened until now against the culture of Syria," Abdulkarim said. The 15,000 antiquities were crafted throughout Syria's rich history, stretching back millennia. Pottery and statues are kept around the city, including in the main museum, Abdulkarim said. "The armed groups kicked out the employees of the museum," he said, adding that Syria's treasures could be smuggled and sold abroad in neighbouring Turkey. Syria is a cultural treasure trove and home to six UNESCO World Heritage sites. Four of these sites, including Palmyra and the Crusader castle Crac des Chevaliers, have been used for military purposes, the United Nations says. Damascus estimates that more than 1,500 items may have been stolen from museums in Raqqa, a city in northeastern Syria now controlled by Islamic State militants, and Deir Atiyah in northern Damascus. When the government controlled Idlib, the 15,000 antiquities were stored in a safe area to preserve and protect them, Abdulkarim said. The UN Security Council in February also banned all trade in antiquities from the war-torn country, where 220,000 people have been killed. As jihadists who adhere to a hardline school of Islam have grown in power, they present a new threat to Syria's heritage. Shrines and tombs in areas under their control have been targeted and destroyed as idolatrous symbols. — Reuters  |
| New Audi ad features exclusive ‘Avengers’ and ‘Ant-Man’ footage (VIDEO) Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:08 AM PDT BERLIN, April 3 — Audi's commercial partnership with Marvel Studios surfaces a clip containing a decent chunk of preview material. Action scenes from "Avengers: Age of Ultron" are intercut with images of the 2015 Audi TTS and keywords designed to shape its commercial identity. Some of the footage has been seen in previous "Avengers" trailers, but a good deal is new. The same goes for an "Ant-Man" teaser appended to the ad. "Avengers: Age of Ultron" launches May 1, with "Ant-Man" to follow from July 17. — AFP-Relaxnews
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| New ‘Avengers’ and ‘Ant-Man’ footage courtesy of Audi Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:02 AM PDT Duration: 1:32, Published 3 Apr 2015 In never-before-seen footage, check out the reloaded Avengers and the 2015 Audi TTS from the upcoming film "Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron", as well as a special sneak peak at the newest Marvel superhero. |
| Phone prepaid cards revert to old prices from May, says Ahmad Maslan Posted: 03 Apr 2015 06:59 AM PDT
The decision was reached a meeting between the Ministry of Finance and the Royal Malaysian Customs Department with four telecommunication companies this morning following an uproar that the prepaid cards and reload are subjected to the GST. "The prepaid top-up was among the main issues brought up on the first two days of the GST implementation. Yesterday, the telcos, following discussions with the Customs Department, decided to charge RM10.60 (for prepaid card and reload of RM10) but added an airtime bonus worth RM1.30. "But following hue and cry from the people, I held another meeting with the telcos to revert the decision and maintain the charge at RM10," he Ahmad told reporters after visiting Proton Holdings Bhd here, today. Hence, he said for a prepaid card and reload of RM10, for example, the users would get the equivalent value although the purchase is subjected to the GST. "I had never said that the prepaid card is exempted from the GST. In fact, it was subjected to the sales tax and services tax (SST) before. So, with the GST implementation at six per cent, the price should not change," he said. For a new RM10 prepaid card, Ahmad said the value before the GST is RM9.43 while the GST is 57 sen, with the telcos adding a bonus air time to ensure that its value is equivalent to the purchase price. The prepaid card and reload price will remain until next month as decided on Tuesday (a RM10 card is priced at RM10.60 and gets a bonus air time of RM1.30 for every purchase or reload), he said, adding that the decision was in line with the Cabinet's decision, but the telcos needed one month to switch back their system that had been harmonised to the GST. Citing another case, Ahmad said the GST was not imposed on services rendered by government agencies, law enforcement agencies and statutory bodies except for trading carried out at car parks by municipalities. He said this followed a complaint from a student on a social network site that he was charged the GST on a compound imposed by a public university. — Bernama |
| AFP Video: Colombia transforms old tyres into green housing Posted: 03 Apr 2015 06:26 AM PDT Duration: 1:55, Published 3 Apr 2015 The highlands around the Colombian capital are scattered with small buildings that look like out-of-place igloos but are in fact innovative houses made from the tires that litter the country's roads. — AFP-Relaxnews |
| Microsoft debuts popular Office Lens app for iOS and Android Posted: 03 Apr 2015 06:24 AM PDT
The app, called Office Lens, is already available on phones running Windows, but has had little exposure given Windows' minute share of the smartphone market. Bringing the app to iOS and Android is the latest sign of Microsoft's new strategy of putting its best software on as many devices as possible, regardless of whether they are running Windows. Office Lens essentially turns a phone into a scanner, using the camera to take a photo of a menu, receipt or business card, for example, and instantly cropping the image and storing it in Microsoft's OneNote note-taking app, or OneDrive cloud storage app. The app, which is free to download on both iOS and Android phones as of yesterday, can save an image as a Word file, PowerPoint presentation or PDF file, and uses optical character recognition to make the text searchable and ready for editing. — Reuters |
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