Dienbladen, kaas en kroketten: de Nederlandse bedrijfskantine

Een pistoletje met kaas of een broodje kroket. Wie werkt, moet lunchen. Redacteur Emma Vos kijkt elke week bij een ander bedrijf wat er gegeten wordt voor de rubriek De…

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Google, Meta and TikTok face new levy to pay for Australian news as Albanese reveals media plan

Government’s draft news bargaining incentive scheme includes 2.25% levy on local revenues of digital giants

Anthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on local revenues, warning digital giants should not be able to exploit the work of journalists to boost profits.

Releasing an exposure draft for the government’s news bargaining incentive (NBI) scheme on Tuesday, the prime minister said platforms who sign new deals with publishers to pay for news content would receive offsets of between 150% to 170% from the new levy.

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Ashes and memories: one family’s return to the site of Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades

Yip Shun-Ting Carbon returns for the first time to his apartment to salvage belongings after last year’s fire that killed 168 people, including his mother

The Yip family once imagined moving to a country house, all three generations under the same roof, with their own vegetable garden and away from Hong Kong’s dense high-rises. A devastating fire, Hong Kong’s worst since 1948, took that future from them, leaving behind little but rubble and blackened walls.

“Whatever we can retrieve is a bonus,” says Yip Shun-Ting Carbon, aged 36, who lost his mother, Pak Shui-lin, in the inferno in November last year that killed 168 people at a large residential complex under renovation.

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