AstraZeneca Plc has appointed Iskra Reic as executive vice-president of its international business, replacing Leon Wang who is under investigation by Chinese authorities. The moveBloomberg Terminal comes less than a month after the UK drugmaker confirmed that Wang, who is also president of Astra’s China division, had been detained. Source link
Two current and two former senior executives at AstraZeneca Plc are under investigation in China in an ongoing probe into alleged breaches of laws around drug importations and data privacy, the company said. This is in addition to Leon Wang, the British drugmaker’s China president, who remains in detention, a company spokesman at Astra told…
The personal data of nearly 150,000 customers and employees of two hearing and speech centres in Hong Kong has been leaked after a ransomware attack, the privacy watchdog has said. On August 22, Widex Hong Kong Hearing and Speech Centre and its subsidiary Starry Hearing and Speech Centre revealed they fell victim to a ransomware…
Chinese companies are aggressively developing autonomous vehicles. In August, China announced that it had issued 16,000 test licenses for driverless cars and opened up about 20,000 miles of roads nationwide for autonomous vehicle testing. But Chinese autonomous vehicle companies have also quietly been testing their technology on U.S. streets. Baidu, Didi, WeRide, Pony.ai and AutoX…
He constantly questioned her whereabouts and even commented on her food choices A disturbing incident of privacy invasion has come to light in Bengaluru, where a woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend, an employee at a food delivery platform, had been using the app to track her location. The shocking revelation was shared on LinkedIn by…
We’ve previously explained why it’s essential to configure privacy settings before using training trackers — both on your phone in general and within the app itself. Doing so minimizes the risk of exposing your personal data, including your location, to the public. You wouldn’t want just anyone to be able to follow your runs and…
A Chinese woman created a 58-page PowerPoint file detailing her boyfriend’s history of infidelity with more than 300 women and shared it online. The incident rapidly became the top trending post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on September 19, garnering 300 million views. In the PowerPoint file she crafted, she accused the man,…
Chinese singer Zhang Jie inadvertently revealed a random phone number as his own during a concert, resulting in a surge of calls to an unsuspecting Shanghai resident. The 41-year-old made his television debut by winning the mainland reality singing competition My Show in 2004 and was later signed by Universal Music China. Zhang’s cheerful personality…