The study by the News Media Alliance underscores industry arguments about Google and other online giants harming traditional news organizations by dominating the internet news ecosystem and ad revenues generated through it.

According to the study, Google has increasingly monetized news content as it works to keep consumers in its ecosystem, and that news searches helps the internet giant gather data from its users to help tailor its other products.

The report is expected to be presented this week to a congressional hearing on antitrust abuses by Big Tech firms and to support legislation that would allow news organizations exemptions from antitrust to negotiate digital revenues.

Google disputed the findings of the study, as did some media analysts.

“These back of the envelope calculations are inaccurate as a number of experts are pointing out,” a Google spokesperson said.

“The overwhelming number of news queries do not show ads. The study ignores the value Google provides. Every month Google News and Google Search drive over 10 billion clicks to publishers’ websites, which drive subscriptions and significant ad revenue.”

Other analysts also voiced skepticism about the methods and conclusions of the study by the media group previously known as the Newspaper Association of America.

Jeff Jarvis, a City University of New York journalism professor, called the study flawed, in part because it relies on “snippets” in search results.

“Snippets in search are NOT content,” Jarvis said on Twitter. “They are links TO the publishers. Google does not monetize Google News. When it makes money on news it’s by serving ads ON publishers’ sites.”

Temple University professor Aron Pilhofer said the study fails to consider how Google drives users to news websites where publishers can generate revenue.

“Even if you accept the methodology (which I do not), I think it’s fair to also account for all the traffic Google is pushing to publisher sites, wouldn’t it? This is just silly,” Pilhofer tweeted.

They learned how to make the bomb through social media and YouTube, Snr. Com. Asep Adi Saputra, the chief spokesman of the National Police, told reporters.

The suicide bomber, identified as RA, blew himself up outside the Kartasura Police station, severely injuring himself but no one else.

A massive manhunt has since led to the arrest of two other men, both on June 9, who were believed to have assisted him. Sugeng Riyadi, was arrested in Sukoharjo, not far from Kartasura, but the other, identified as AA alias Umar, was caught in Bandar Lampung, the capital of Lampung province.

Their arrests put an end to an earlier police theory that RA had acted as a lone wolf.

Asep said the police’s investigation had failed to connect the three men to any local terrorist organization but that they were “sympathizers of IS founding leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi”.

Regarding their roles in the collective act, it was explained that RA acted as the executor, and two others, AA and S, both carried out research and made the bomb.

The failed attack followed the arrests of nearly 70 people in various parts of the country suspected of planning terrorist attacks ahead of the May 21 announcement of the election results.

Police have been on high alert since then.

“Both will compete in the coming election. Because they are highly qualified. The country needs their workforces,” Dr. Myo Nyunt added.

With regard to the question of how the President, the State Counsellor and regional ministers will get involved in the party’s activities, Dr. Myo Nyunt replied that “The President and the State Counsellor themselves will decide it. They will have the rights to carry out the canvassing works in their relevant constituencies. They will have to give up their high-level administrative duties if they want to conduct the nationwide canvassing campaigns.

In responding to the accusation by some political parties that there will be no fairness in the upcoming election, he said: “It is the usual work done by the opposition parties. We (NLD) don’t put our hardcore members in the Union Election Commission (UEC). They are former members. We want the UEC to be an unbiased body. We prefer the fair loss to the unfair defeat. This is our principle.”

“All-out efforts will be made to ensure that the 2020 election is free and fair. As I mentioned earlier, we will never use the unfair means to win the victory in the election. We will try every possible ways to get the people’s genuine votes in accordance with the laws,” he continued.

The visiting Communist Party secretary of Guangdong province, Li Xi, discussed the matter with Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha when calling on the premier at Government House on Monday.

Both sides agreed to enhance Thai-Guangdong trade, with a target of US$140 billion (Bt4.38 trillion) of annual bilateral commerce by 2021, Deputy Government Spokesman Weerachon Sukondhapatipak said.

They also talked about further cooperation in a number of other areas, including education, science, innovation and technology, he said.

Li, who is also a member of the Communist Party’s central Politbureau, praised Prayut for strengthening relations between Thailand and China during the five years of his premiership.

Prayut emphasised the Thai government’s intention to strengthen cooperation with China.

Earlier, Li and his delegation held a discussion with Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak about the two nations’ relationship and cooperation.

The objectives of the meeting were to negotiate about business linkage between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and the development of bilateral ties.

Li said President Xi Jinping’s concept of socialism was based on people and emphasised innovation, balance, environmental well-being, liberalisation and sharing.

Guangdong province aims to develop the GBA into a world-class city cluster and centre of technology innovation, Li said.

Thailand and Guangdong province have many similarities in matters such as culture, geography and society, he added.

“We are willing to share our development opportunities about the GBA and support the EEC strategy. Our cooperation is to fulfil our countries’ interests,” Li stressed.

“Thailand has had a long, trustful relationship with China, and we are willing to cooperate [further] with China,” Somkid said.

“In one month, maybe 30 [ships] will be [sunk],” Susi said as quoted bytempo.co on Thursday.

Susi said the ships were now located in Pontianak in West Kalimantan, Natuna and Tarempa in Riau Islands and Bitung in North Sulawesi. A court has deemed the 30 ships as illegal.

During her four years in office, Susi sunk more than 500 ships. The office claimed this policy had succeeded in deterring 10,000 ships from illegally entering Indonesian waters.

“This is a common practice. In Australia, if our fishermen’s boats trespass their waters, the boats would be burned right away,” Susi said.

Mas Achmad Santosa, the ministry’s head of illegal fishing prevention task force Satgas 115, said most of the ships were from Vietnam and China. He urged the Foreign Ministry to conduct bilateral negotiations with the two countries.

“Diplomatic meetings have taken place, but [the policy] is not settled and we have yet to formulate a protocol,” he said.

Chin Ah Chian, 52, said he and his partners had met the woman concerned to clarify the issue and prove that the sale of the three durians was done “accordingly” and not as she claimed.

“But when we asked her to issue a public apology and clarify that it was all just a misunderstanding, she refused,” Chin said at his shop in Jalan Macalister yesterday.

He said the issue had triggered an investigation by the Domestic Trade, Coopera­tives and Consume­rism Ministry.

The shop’s co-owner, who wished to be known only as Lim, said they contacted the woman to try to settle the issue.

“She was the one who posted the issue on Facebook. We understand that what is done is done, and all we want is just clarification that it was a big misunderstanding.

“We gave her time but there was no response, so we have to do what we have to do,” Lim said.

The ministry’s Penang enforcement chief Chin Ching Chung confirmed that his officers were awaiting the documents to determine the shop’s profits.

He said checks on the labels, price tags and weighing machine showed no discrepancies.

“But as the complaint was about profiteering, we need to check on many aspects under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act.

“We will wait until June 18 for them to provide us with the documents so that we can start calculating and looking into their profit margins,” he said.

The thorny issue began when the woman voiced her displeasure about how her friends and her paid RM937 for two Black Thorns and a Musang King durians in a FB posting.

Her post went viral, with negative comments hurled by netizens against the shop.

It was reported that the woman visited the shop on May 30 with a group of friends asking for the “biggest and tastiest fruits”.

When it was time to pay, the woman apparently remarked that it was expensive but was said to have paid up without kicking up a fuss.

    Striking a defiant tone after the city’s largest protest since the 1997 handover, chief executive Carrie Lam said the legislature would debate the bill on Wednesday as planned, rejecting calls to delay or withdraw the law.

The decision sets her administration on a collision course with opponents who have vowed to ramp up their protests if their demands are not met.

Sunday saw huge crowds march in blazing summer heat through the streets of the financial hub’s main island in a noisy, colourful demonstration calling on the government to scrap its planned extradition law.

    Organisers said as many as a million people turned out — the largest protest in three decades and the biggest by far since the city’s return to Chinese rule.

Lam’s government is pushing a bill through the legislature that would allow extraditions to any jurisdiction with which it does not already have a treaty — including mainland China.

Authorities say it is needed to plug loopholes and to stop the city being a bolthole for fugitives.

But the proposals have birthed an opposition that unites a wide cross-section of the city with critics fearing the law will entangle people in China’s opaque and politicised court system.

   – ‘No instructions from Beijing’ –

In her first comments since the mass rallies, Lam said she had no plans to delay or change the law.

She denied ignoring the huge public backlash and said her administration had already made major concessions to ensure the city’s unique freedoms would be protected and that human rights safeguards met international standards.

“I and my team have not ignored any views expressed on this very important piece of legislation. We have been listening and listening very attentively,” she said.

“I’ve not received any instructions or mandate from Beijing to do this bill,” she added.

Sunday’s huge rally passed without incident until shortly after midnight when small pockets of protesters fought running battles with police in chaotic and violent scenes.

Hong Kong police chief Stephen Lo blamed masked demonstrators for trying to “storm” the parliament and vowed to pursue those who were involved.

“This is not freedom of speech or the expression of opinions,” he told reporters Monday after visiting officers who had been injured.

“We the police will definitely get to the bottom who took part in tonight’s violent protests,” he added.

 – Years of tumult –

Hong Kong has been convulsed by political unrest in recent years as fears soar that a resurgent Beijing is trying to quash the international financial hub’s unique freedoms and culture.

Under the 50-year handover deal with the British, China agreed to a “one country, two systems” model where Hong Kong would keep freedom of speech and assembly rights that are unheard of on the authoritarian mainland.

But many locals believe Beijing is now reneging on that deal, aided by the city’s loyalist local government, especially since Xi Jinping became China’s leader.

In 2014 mass democracy protests calling for the right to directly elect Hong Kong’s leader paralysed parts of the city for more than two months with frequent clashes between police and demonstrators.

Two years later violent clashes broke out in the crowded district of Mongkok when police tried to close down unlicensed street vendors. Key protest leaders have since been jailed or barred from politics.

Many young Hong Kongers have hardened their attitudes towards China after failing to win any concessions since the 2014 protests and the violence after Sunday’s rally fits a now familiar pattern.

Protest leaders said they planned to respond to Lam’s comments later on Monday but they had previously said they would “escalate actions”.

Senior Chinese party leaders have spoken out in support of the extradition bill but so far Beijing has remained silent on Sunday’s huge rally.

In an editorial, Beijing’s state-run China Daily called the law a “sensible, legitimate” piece of legislation and blamed the protests on “foreign forces”.

“Unfortunately, some Hong Kong residents have been hoodwinked by the opposition camp and their foreign allies into supporting the anti-extradition campaign,” the paper wrote.

Tens of thousands of people marched in blazing summer heat through the cramped streets of the financial hub’s main island in a noisy, colourful demonstration calling on the government to scrap its planned extradition law.

Protesters gesture as they chant “no extradition” as they rally against a controversial extradition law proposal in Hong Kong on June 9, 2019. // AFP PHOTO

    The city’s pro-Beijing leaders are pushing a bill through the legislature that would allow extraditions to any jurisdiction with which it does not already have a treaty — including mainland China for the first time.

Dense crowds chanting “Scrap the evil law!” and “Oppose China extradition!” stretched for miles.

Coffee shop owner Marco Ng said he was closing his store to join the march.

“Our city matters more than our business,” the 26-year-old told AFP. “If we don’t speak out, then there’s no way that the government will listen to our concerns.”

“The people’s voices are not being heard,” added 18-year-old student Ivan Wong. “This bill will not just affect Hong Kong’s reputation as an international finance centre, but also our judicial system. That has an impact on my future.”

 – Groundswell of opposition –

The proposed law has sparked an opposition that unites a wide demographic, setting off the largest demonstrations since 2014 when pro-democracy protests brought parts of the city to a standstill for two months.

 Protesters attend a rally against a controversial extradition law proposal in Hong Kong on June 9, 2019. // AFP PHOTO

Lawyers have held sombre marches dressed in black, anonymous senior judges have given critical media interviews and the city’s two main legal groups — the Law Society and the Bar Association — have urged a rethink.

Business figures are also rattled with multiple chambers of commerce and commercial groups expressing alarm, adding to criticism from the United States, Canada, former colonial power Britain and many European governments.

Hong Kong’s leaders, who are not popularly elected, say the law is needed to plug loopholes and stop the city being a bolthole for mainland fugitives.

They say dissidents and critics will not be extradited and have urged the bill’s quick passage to extradite a Hong Kong man who is wanted in Taiwan for murdering his girlfriend.

But critics fear the law would entangle people in China’s opaque and politicised court system and say the government is using the Taiwan case as a Trojan Horse.

The proposed law has been fast-tracked through the city’s government-dominated legislature and on Wednesday it will receive its second reading, with plans to have the law on the statute book by late July.

Previous sessions in parliament have descended into chaos with rival lawmakers scuffling.

 – Headache for leader –

Sunday’s march was seen by organisers as an attempt to showcase how wide the opposition to the bill is ahead of the second reading.

The backlash creates a headache for the city’s appointed leader Carrie Lam who has staked her political reputation on the bill passing.

Ignoring such a huge turnout could fuel popular anger or even a return to the unrest of 2014 — but backtracking might embolden opponents and anger Beijing.

Several senior Communist Party leaders in China have voiced support for the bill.

In recent weeks Lam’s administration has made some key concessions.

They have removed nine economic crimes from a list of extraditable offences and said only crimes that carry seven years or more in jail will be considered, up from three. Requests will only be considered from China’s top prosecuting authority.

Those steps have received a cautious welcome from some business groups, but others have seized on the concessions as tacit admission that China’s courts are not impartial.

Many protesters on Sunday said they no longer trust the Hong Kong government to stick to promises that critics would never be sent to the mainland.

“This government is not elected … they are only acting for those who gave them power,” Johnny Yuen, a 57-year-old construction worker, said. “Dignity is something we are going to have to fight for ourselves.”

Suspicion of China was worsened by a series of high profile disappearances of people who later appeared in mainland detention, including a group of dissident publishers and a billionaire who disappeared from a top hotel.

Protester Leo Yuen, who said he worked in the arts sector, described the disappearances as “horrifying”.

“You can forsee how easily this would happen again if the bill is passed,” he told AFP.

Meanwhile trust in the city’s leadership to withstand political pressure from Beijing has fallen further after the failure of the 2014 protests to win any concessions, the imprisonment of protest leaders and the banning of some critical lawmakers from taking office or standing for election.

The 43 passengers and crew aboard the “No 5 Elbe” were rescued after it was in collision with the Cyprus-flagged container ship Astrosprinter on the Elbe River at Stade near Hamburg around 1230 GMT Saturday.

The 37 metre (121 foot) long pilot schooner, built in 1883, was Hamburg’s last remaining seagoing ship from the era of wooden ships and could be rented for harbour excursions, media reports said.

The ship had just been renovated over eight months in a Danish shipyard where it received new outer wooden planks and a new stern, the DPA news agency said.