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| HOLLANDE BECOMES FRENCH PRESIDENT: French President Francois Hollande (C) flanked by his companion Valerie Trierweiler (R), Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe (2nd L) and Paris deputy mayor Anne Hidalgo arrives to deliver a speech as part of a ceremony held at Paris town hall following his investiture yesterday in Paris. Hollande became President of France yesterday and almost immediately left for Berlin for a high-stakes face-off with German Chancellor Angela Merkel over remedies for Europe's crisis. Philippe Desmazes / AFP
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Japan is restarting nuclear plants, as town councillors in Oi, a community in Fukui prefecture, have given the go-ahead for two nuclear reactors that the town hosts to be restarted so as to protect local jobs, reports The Straits Times. Philippine President Benigno Aquino says the island dispute between China and the Philippines may soon be resolved, as he gives assurances that discussions with China has taken a clearer direction, says China Daily. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak says he supports Myanmar reform when he meets Myanmar’s iconic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the country’s old capital of Yangon, writes The Korea Herald. Indonesian president plays safe on North Korean issues, disappointing activists who wanted him to push for changes in Pyongyang, says The Jakarta Post. Sony, Panasonic are in talks to create next-generation TV sets, planning to form an alliance and develop an iconic Japanese brand to catch up to their South Korean rivals, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun.
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SINGAPORE: Housewife Jules Rahim was shocked when a friend tipped her off that her photo was featured on a pornographic website. That was not the only unauthorised use of the picture of her in a bikini, which she had posted on her Facebook account three years ago. Another friend told her that the photo had also popped up on a dating site called sgGirls.com. It was accompanied by a caption which listed a telephone number to call and how much it cost to chat. "It's embarrassing," said the mother of four children, aged one to 10. "People I know may think wrongly of me." Rahim, 32, has filed two police reports - one about the porn site and the other about the dating site. The Straits Times understands that at least two other Singaporean women have also discovered that their Facebook pictures have surfaced on these two websites. The three are victims of what is known as 'photo-jacking' - the act of stealing pictures from social media like Facebook and Twitter and exploiting them for use on, say, porn sites. Earlier this year, there were reports in the United States and New Zealand concerning Facebook pictures of teenagers and children which had also ended up on porn portals.
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