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Govt mulls Legco call for quicker action on absconders
People charged with national security offences who are suspected of having left Hong Kong could be stripped of their passports quicker than originally planned, with the government suggesting it could heed a call by lawmakers to drop a proposed waiting period before action is taken. The bill on Article 23 national security legislation sets out
Marcos mulls economic amendments to Charter
Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. (UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday said his administration was studying amending the economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution to make the country more attractive to investors.The President made his sentiments on Charter amendments known after efforts to revise the Constitution's "prohibitive" provisos gained traction in
Scotland mulls pathogen action levels
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is considering introducing thresholds for action for some pathogens based on either a UK or Scottish approach. Using targets based on reported infections of key pathogens could help monitor trends and be used as a trigger to act. However, figures would need to be interpreted carefully because of underreporting, inability to
Australia Mulls New Law To Ban Religious Schools From Discriminating Against LGBT Students, Staff
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus Nearly a year after former PM Scott Morrison failed to get his Religious Discrimination Bill passed in Parliament, the Anthony Albanese government is moving ahead with plans to enact a law that will protect LGBTQI students and staff from discrimination in religious schools in Australia. Last week, the Australian Law Reform Commission
SPEC mulls benchmarks for ML processing performance
Benchmarking organization SPEC has formed a committee to oversee the development of vendor-agnostic benchmarks for machine-learning training and inference tasks. SPEC, the non-profit Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, produces a range of benchmarks that are widely used to evaluate the performance of computer systems, especially in the high performance computing (HPC) industry. According to SPEC, the…