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An App to Ease Safety QR Check-Ins Wins the 2021 APEC App Challenge Resize text: Singapore, 07 June 2021 Issued by the APEC Secretariat An app that makes it easy for people in the region to do their safety QR code check-ins, developed and designed by a team from Australia, has won the 2021 APEC App Challenge, held on the eve of the 2021 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting (MRT). The announcement was made by Damien O’Connor, New Zealand’s Minister for Trade and Export Growth, who chaired the meeting. In its fifth year, the APEC App Challenge asked software developers and designe...

An app that makes it easy for people in the region to do their safety QR code check-ins, developed and designed by a team from Australia, has won the 2021 APEC App Challenge, held on the eve of the 2021 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting (MRT). The ...

Items seized in the investigation including about $41,000. | Photo contributed Five people were arrested, including two on federal drug charges, Thursday after an investigation into a methamphetamine supply source for Laurel and Knox counties. Laurel County Sheriff's Office investigators said Harvey Couch of Beaver Dam, Kentucky and Amber Price of Harrisburg, Illinois were estimated to be moving 5 kilograms (11.02 pounds) of methamphetamine between Atlanta, Georgia and London and were reportedly also trafficking to Illinois, every two weeks. Investigators arrested Price, 54, and Couch, 24, at...

2021 APEC App Challenge Registration Opens Resize text: Singapore, 07 May 2021 Issued by the APEC Secretariat The 2021 APEC App Challenge is now inviting talented software developers and designers from 21 APEC member economies to bring forward ideas and innovation that support the revival of the tourism sector. The annual coding competition will be held virtually from 14 May to 6 June. Participating teams will be challenged to build new mobile or web tools to help prepare the APEC region for a resumption of travel and promote a safe and trustworthy travel environment. “APEC policymakers ar...

Remembering Mike Salinas I freelanced for the late B.A.R. news editor Mike Salinas in the 1990s, sending him political and AIDS-related stories from Los Angeles. As a former mainstream journalist, I often argued with him when he included activist terms under my byline; he once inserted "The Betrayer" in a Bill Clinton photo caption. But we worked well together. Salinas was also insightful. He called me an "environmental reporter" because I wrote about fundraisers in a "you-are-there" style. He was right. I imagined my reader as a homebound person with AIDS who had tickets for the event but wa...