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WeChat ban is a MAGA wall in cyberspace in US

Having failed to complete a huge wall along the US southern border, President Donald Trump’s administration now seems desperate to build one in cyberspace for similar spurious reasons. Whereas the bogeyman four years ago was a supposed influx of drugs and criminals from Mexico, the US announced that Tencent Holdings Ltd’s instant-messaging app WeChat will essentially be shut down in ...

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Proposed Boeing’s 737 Max fixes win NTSB endorsement

Bloomberg US accident investigators who last year urged broad reforms of aircraft certification after two deadly crashes of Boeing Co’s 737 Max have endorsed fixes for the jet proposed last month by the Federal Aviation Administration. A letter from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt said safety reviews by the regulators and proposed changes to pilot procedures had ...

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South Africa commits $650m to airline SAA

Bloomberg The administrators of South African Airways (SAA) remain in the dark about when the funds the government said it will provide to restart the insolvent national carrier will land. “The government sent a letter to the business rescue practitioners saying that National Treasury and the cabinet had committed to providing 10.5 billion rand ($650 million) in funding for SAA,” ...

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