China has fined ride-hailing giant Didi Global 8.026 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) following a year-long probe into the company’s data-collecting practices, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced on Thursday. According to the CAC statement published on its official website, the regulator concluded that Didi had violated Chinese laws governing …
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Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has blasted the UK government for holding a drinks event in the Downing Street garden during the first lockdown, declaring, “what tf were any of these people thinking?” The prime minister’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, sent an email to over 100 employees at …
Read More »Boris Johnson pictured hosting another lockdown-breaching party – reports
A photo published by The Mirror on Saturday shows Johnson apparently reading out questions to staff at a Christmas quiz in Downing Street on December 15, 2020. Johnson is flanked on either side by aides wearing tinsel and a Santa hat. Although the quiz was supposedly a virtual one, in …
Read More »‘Illegal engagement party’ in Australia results in $300,000+ in FINES for breaching strict Covid lockdown
Some 56 attendees at the party, held in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield North earlier this month, were fined more than $5,400 each, a Victoria police spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. All said and done, the engagement gathering racked up a $305,312 price tag for the penalties alone. “Victoria Police is …
Read More »Fast food emergency: Australian police catch man breaching Covid-19 quarantine to go to McDonald’s (VIDEO)
Footage of the incident was released by Queensland Police, which urged others to closely follow quarantine orders from the authorities. The video shows the 34-year-old man being approached by multiple police officers as he sits in his car at a McDonald’s parking lot. The man had been ordered to get …
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