Bitcoin ban means one less option for bribing Thai officials

Thailand isn't exactly known for its unquestionable ethics; activities that would quickly be labeled as illegal in the West are practiced in plain view in Bangkok. Loose regulations mean that a nearly limitless array of goods and services can be purchased with cash and even credit -- a currency like Bitcoin would only be necessary for the most heinous of exchanges. It's a bit ironic, then, that the Thai government is now the world's first to ban Bitcoin. Following a conference at the Bank of Thailand yesterday, the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department voted to make the digital coinage illegal, prohibiting people from buying, selling or trading Bitcoins for goods or services. Additionally, Bitcoins cannot be moved into or out of the country, rendering any current stockpiles worthless. The Bank of Thailand ended its dispatch with a promise to revisit the ruling in the future, though this landmark decision could prove to be the beginning of the end for Bitcoin.

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Discovery of New Molecule That Aids in Suffocating Tumors can be Used in Development of New Cancer Drugs

Cancer Research UK scientists at the University of Southampton found that this molecule targets the master switch, HIF-1, that cancer cells use to adapt to low oxygen levels, a common feature in the disease.

The researchers uncovered a way to stop cancer cells using this switch through an approach called 'synthetic biology'. By testing 3.2 million potential compounds, made by specially engineered bacteria, they were able to find a molecule that stopped HIF-1 from working.

All cells need a blood supply to provide them with the oxygen and nutrients they require to survive. Cancer tumours grow rapidly and as the tumour gets bigger it outstrips the supply of oxygen and nutrients that the surrounding blood vessels can deliver.

But, to cope with this low-oxygen environment, HIF-1 acts as a master switch that turns on hundreds of genes, allowing cancer cells to survive. HIF-1 triggers the formation of new blood vessels around tumours, causing more oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to the starving tumour, which in turn allows it to keep growing.

Dr Ali Tavassoli, a Cancer Research UK scientist whose team discovered and developed the compound at the University of Southampton, said: "We've found a way to target the steps that cancer cells take to survive and we hope that our research will one day lead to effective drugs that can stop cancers adapting to a low oxygen environment, stopping their growth. The next step is to further develop this molecule to create an effective treatment."

Dr Julie Sharp, senior science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "Finding ways to disrupt the tools that cancer cells use to adapt and grow when starved of oxygen has been a hot topic in cancer research, but finding drugs that do this effectively has proved elusive.

"For the first time our scientists have found a way to block a master switch controlling cells response to low levels of oxygen -- an important step towards creating drugs that could halt cancer in its tracks."

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Insert Coin: TouchKeys overlay brings whole new meaning to 'tickling the ivories'

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line.

Keyboards haven't changed much in the last, oh, few hundred years or so. You play a note by hitting and releasing it, use a pedal to sustain and change volume through the high-tech means of "bashing harder." TouchKeys wants to give you much more control with its touch sensitive, DIY stick-on overlays that can even sense multi-touch. While similar to what we've seen recently with the Roli Seaboard (which has rubberized keys that let you bend notes), TouchKeys can be added to most keyboards and would let you do even more, in theory. Similar to a smartphone screen, it senses up and down or side-to-side finger movements with up to three touches, all of which can be mapped mapped to different sounds or effects. For instance, you can create a vibrato by shaking your hand side-to-side, move up and down to bend notes, use multi-touch pinch and slide to change midi mappings, or play different sounds by multi-tapping.

Most of the kits sold will be DIY, meaning they'll come as self-installed peel-and-stick keys and sensors that fit standard-sized keyboards, starting at £330 for 25 keys. You'll also have to open up the keyboard to tuck in the narrow controller, but the company said it hasn't seen any models that don't work yet. If you're not inclined to futz around, you'll be able to buy a limited number of pre-installed kits starting at £660 with a Novation Impulse 25 keyboard. TouchKeys is looking for a relatively modest £30,000 as its funding goal, so if you're looking for the latest musical edge, hit the source.

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iPhone 5C Packaging Spotted in China: Proof a Cheaper iPhone is Coming?

July 28th, 2013 by: Paul Strauss

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For months there have been rumors that Apple will release a less expensive version of the iPhone for the masses ? especially in parts of the world where the current gen iPhone is considered too expensive. Images have leaked of colorful, possibly plastic-cased iPhone components, and now we have what appears to be a product name ? the iPhone 5C.

This tub of plastic packaging clearly labeled ?iPhone 5C? and adorned with the Apple logo was spotted in China and posted on the WeiPhone forums. While they definitely could be boxes for some cheap knock-off iPhones, I?m going to go out on a limb and say this looks legit, and the plastic construction of the packaging would go well with the rumored less-expensive iPhone. Now what the ?C? stands for is anyone?s guess ? perhaps it stands for ?cheap? but I don?t think so. It?s more likely to stand for ?colors,? IMHO.

Regardless of the veracity of this image, I don?t think we?ll be waiting too much longer to see the next iPhones emerge from Apple. All signs point to a September or October reveal of both an inexpensive model and an updated iPhone 5, rumored to be called the iPhone 5S ? though I?d really love for a surprise reveal of an iPhone 6.

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Azerbaijan transported 21.7m tons of oil via main pipelines

Irish Times - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Italian interior Mininster Angelino Alfano. Italy retroactively revoked Alma Shalabayeva's deportation order this month while ordering an internal inquiry over an affair that has rocked the already fragile left-right coalition amid suspicions that commercial interests lay behind her expulsion. Photograph: AP Photo/Gregorio ...

Kyrgyzstan tourism rebound this summer.

eTN - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Tourists at a Lake Issyk-Kul beach watch a camel pass July 15. This year's tourist season has been quite successful in Kyrgyzstan, officials and business owners say. [Alisher Karimov] Tourists at a Lake Issyk-Kul beach watch a camel pass July 15. This year's tourist season has been quite successful in Kyrgyzstan, officials and business owners say. [Alisher Karimov] The industry, ...

Access to info on cash transfers by labor migrants blocked in Tajikistan

Itar Tass - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

DUSHANBE, July 23 (Itar-Tass) - Starting from May, the Tajik Ministry for Economic Development has blocked access to information on the amount of cash transfers to the country by Tajik labor migrants, the head of the National Bank, Abdudzhabbor Shirinov, told a news conference on Tuesday. "The issue of money transfers has been acquiring political connotation of late and is not always ...

Pitt to help establish medical school in Kazakhstan

Tribune Review - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

A medical school dedicated to health care, medical education and biomedical research is slated to open at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan thanks to a strategic partnership with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the schools announced ...

Uzbek Border Guard Killed in Shootout on Kyrgyz Border

RIA Novosti - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

BISHKEK/TASHKENT, July 23 (RIA Novosti) ? An Uzbek border guard was killed and another seriously injured in an exchange of fire across the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border on Tuesday. According to Kyrgyzstan?s border service, the incident occurred around 10:25 a.m. local time when a border guard detail comprised of three servicemen detected two Uzbek border guards who "illegally ...

Kazakhstan plans to harvest 15 million tons of grain in 2013

Itar Tass - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

ASTANA, July 23 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan, which has begun preparations for the harvesting season, is expecting to bring in 15 million tons of grain in 2013 compared with 12.8 million tons last year, Economics and Budget Planning Minister Yerbolat Dosayev told a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. "Harvesting preparations have already begun; we plan to supply 410 tons of diesel fuel with a 10% ...

Nazarbaev retreats on pension reforms

Asia Times - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

By Saule Mukhametrakhimova Faced with mounting public opposition to a pension reform plan, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has sent the bill back to parliament and sacked the minister responsible for it. The bill envisages that the retirement age for women will be raised from 58 to 63, the same as for men. The change is to be phased in over 10 years, starting in 2014. In a televised ...

A projection of Moscows mindset

Asia Times - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

By Dmitry Shlapentokh Russia's relations with the Asian people, as projected in recent movies, provides important insight not just about Russian domestic but also foreign policy, including Moscow's view of the current conflicts in the Middle East. Since the end of Vladimir Putin's first term as president, the Russian movie industry has produced several historical movies on ...

Sport in Azerbaijan is a priority of the state ? NOC member

News.Az - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

In an interview to 1news.az, member of the Azerbaijani delegation in Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia), head of the General Directorate of Youth and Sports Office of Baku and a member of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) Ragif Abbasov summed up the 27th Summer Universiade. With regard to what the 27th World Universiade was remembered for, Ragif Abbasov said: Let me make a brief excursion into ...

Europe-Azerbaijan rapprochement depends on EU support for territorial integrity

News.Az - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov has called on the European Union members to live up to obligations to support territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan which is reflected in the policy of European Neighborhood. "Progress in the negotiations between the EU and Azerbaijan to achieve the Association Agreement is possible only on the basis of principles of mutual ...

UPDATE 1-Kazakhstan says oligarchs wife could return to Italy-newspaper

Reuters - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:57am EDT * Italy expelled her in May, then revoked order * Incident put fragile Italy government at risk * Shalabayeva now under criminal investigation in Kazakhstan (Adds Kazakhstan's presidency official) ROME, July 23 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will let a dissident oligarch's wife return to Italy as long as she is returned for trial if necessary, an Italian newspaper ...

Turkish newspaper highlights distribution of apartments to Azeri journalists

News.Az - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Turkish newspaper Hurriyet has widely highlighted the distribution of apartments to Azerbaijani journalists in an article under heading "In the world there is no second such practice". The popular edition writes that the government of Azerbaijan in the 138th anniversary of the Day of National Press gave apartments to 150 journalists. Hurriyet notes that the ceremony of ...

Azerbaijan Courting Enhanced Pakistani Support

ISN - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

To strengthen its hand in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, Azerbaijan is upgrading its military relations with Pakistan. According to Shahla Sultanova, however, such cooperation is also raising fears of nuclear proliferation and other forms of instability in the South Caucasus. By Shahla Shultanova for ...

We should deliver the realities of Azerbaijan to the world press ? President

News.Az - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

On 22 July, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of the National Press Day took part in the ceremony of distribution of apartments at the building for journalists. First the head of state reviewed the stand reflecting the technical and economic parameters of the building, 1news.az reports citing the official website of the Azerbaijani President. Head of the social and ...

Kazakhstans GDP grows 5 in 1st half of 2013

Itar Tass - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

ASTANA, July 23 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan's GDP grew 5.1% in January through June 2013, compared with the same period last year, the republic's Economics and Budget Planning Minister Yerbolat Dosayev told a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. "Despite uncertainties in the world economy and foreign markets, the Kazakh economy is showing stability. According to preliminary estimates, the ...

Mongolia to Take Over Savings Bank as Fifth-Largest Lender Fails

Business Mongolia - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Savings Bank, Mongolia's fifth-largest lender, has been declared insolvent after affiliated companies defaulted on loans, and will be taken over by a state-owned competitor, the central bank ...

Freedom of speech fully ensured in Azerbaijan ? Ilham Aliyev

News.Az - Tuesday 23rd July, 2013

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the media representatives on the National Press Day at a ceremony of opening a building for journalists in Bibiheybat settlement today. The President noted that the practice of providing housing for journalists is realized for the first time in Azerbaijan in the world. "I am glad that Azerbaijan maintains its leadership in this area. ...

The new Great Game Europe looks within for roots of renewal

The Independent - Monday 22nd July, 2013

The term "the Great Game" referred to the strategic rivalry between the British and Russian empires in Central Asia. Today's Great Game is the battle for economic survival in a world of low economic growth. In such a world economic nationalism reasserts itself, reducing free trade in goods and services and free movement of capital. Escalating sovereign debt and banking sector ...

Gazprom plans Ukraine bypass

Asia Times - Monday 22nd July, 2013

By Vladimir Socor On April 3, in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller announced a colossal series of gas projects. These involve an expansion of existing big projects or a reactivation of earlier, unimplemented proposals. Ukraine's start of gas imports from Europe, reducing dependence on Gazprom, triggered this Putin-Miller move. In a set-piece dialogue, they ...

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Republican National Committee hires California state director

The Republican National Committee announced Wednesday that Clinton Soffer will become its first California state director.

He joins new state directors in 11 other states -- Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin -- as part of a new RNC investment a year ahead of the 2014 elections..

California GOP Chairman Jim Brulte said the state party anticipates Soffer will work as a state field representative in their ground campaign to engage more voters.

"We're rebuilding the California Republican party from the ground up," Brulte said in an interview. "In order to do that, we want a very close relationship with our county parties but also with our national party."

In a statement, RNC chairman Reince Priebus said hiring state directors will allow the party to build "the most expansive field program the GOP has ever seen...Republicans have never made this kind of investment in an off year. The RNC will be in communities engaging with and listening to voters where they live, work, and worship-not months, but years before Election Day."

Soffer, 23, most recently worked on San Diego City Council member Scott Sherman's staff after managing his campaign in the primary election.

Soffer also ran former San Diego Assemblyman and Republican leader George Plescia's ultimately unsuccessful campaign to unseat Sen. Marty Block, D-San Diego in 2012.

He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a bachelor's degree in political science. While in college, Soffer was the state chairman of the California College Republicans.

PHOTO: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus gestures while speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, March 18, 2013. Associated Press/Manuel Balce Ceneta

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Pemex pipe explodes in central Mexico, 7 injured

TOLUCA, Mexico -- A pipeline explosion Sunday that injured seven people and sent flames and smoke shooting hundreds of feet into the air in central Mexico was caused by illegal tapping, Mexico's state-owned oil company said.

The pre-dawn explosion in a farm field injured four police officers and three firefighters among those called to the scene by a report of an oil leak, the state prosecutor's office said.

Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, issued a statement on its Twitter account blaming the blast on an attempt to steal oil with an illicit tap. The supply of crude oil through the pipeline was immediately suspended, it said.

The explosion in Tonanitla in central Mexico state did not threaten any of the area's communities, Mexico state Gov. Eruviel Avila said via Twitter.

There were no evacuations.

An oil leak was first reported about 3:35 a.m. and the explosion occurred at 4 a.m., said Francisco Ventura of the Tecamac municipal police.

Officials reported the fire under control about four hours later.

Illegal tapping is a consistent and serious problem for Pemex, which has seen roughly 20 percent annual increases in thefts of crude oil, gasoline and diesel in recent years, according to Pemex reports and officials. One attempted theft caused an explosion that killed 29 people in December 2010.

Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, in a widely reported Senate interview in April, said such thefts cost the company about $5 billion a year.

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Twitter's trialling a new "Embedded on these websites" notification system, which shows a list of articles that appear in popular tweets. That means you can quickly see the sources lurking behind a post?which is kinda neat.

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Autoliv to Build Chinese Textile Center

In a bid to be more competitive, auto airbag manufacturer Autoliv announced yesterday that it will invest $50 million to build a new textile center in China that?will consist of a weaving plant, an airbag cushion plant, and a development center for airbag cushions and textiles.

Because of the strong demand for airbags in China and across Asia, Autoliv is looking to reduce supplier costs by becoming vertically integrated. When completed, the new center will give the airbag maker a central hub for its patented "one-piece-woven" technology that makes airbag cushions?almost ready-made on the weaving loom. A separate building on site will manufacture the airbag cushions themselves, which represents a relocation of Autoliv's facility from Shanghai.?

Autoliv President and CEO Jan Carlson said, "The textile center will increase our level of in-house component sourcing and enable standardized designs in Asia region and globally, while shortening and streamlining our supply chain."

The weaving plant will be almost 100,000 square feet in size and will employ around 150 people. The similarly sized cushion facility will employ around 1,000 people. Together with the development center that will be constructed and will focus on standardized designs for the Asia region, Autoliv will have?in-house manufacturing of its OPW across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

The airbag maker?produced 70 million airbag cushions in-house and purchased 40 million from external suppliers for its total production of 110 million complete airbags?globally last year.

Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Autoliv is?the worldwide leader in airbag?safety systems for all the world's major car manufacturers. Together with its joint ventures, Autoliv has approximately 80 facilities with more than 50,000 employees in 29 countries. It had global sales of?$8.3 billion in 2012.

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