ASIA TODAY Cyber ​​attack brings Indonesia’s national data center to its knees

Today’s news: In Shanghai, two women and a child injured in an attack on a Japanese school bus. Egypt revokes licenses of 16 tourism agencies after deaths in Mecca. In the first downpour it rains at the new monumental Ram temple in Ayodhya. Russia’s only female governor resigns criticizing the war.

INDONESIA

A cyber attack has endangered the Indonesian national data center, disrupting immigration controls at airports. The hackers demanded a ransom of $8 million, the country’s Communications Minister, Budi Arie Setiadi, told the Reuters news agency. Automatic passport machines are now working, according to the Ministry of Communications.

ASIA

China, North Korea, Myanmar, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Macao, Papua New Guinea and Brunei are the Asia-Pacific countries that remain at “level 3” – that of maximum alert countries – in the new edition of the US State Department report on human trafficking. Instead, the report records new progress by Vietnam, which was removed from the “Tier 2 watch list” because its government has “demonstrated that it has increased its overall efforts” to combat trafficking by introducing a new bill to the legislative branch and increased prosecutions of traffickers.

CHINA JAPAN

A Japanese woman and her son were injured and a Chinese woman seriously injured yesterday in a knife attack at a bus stop and inside a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, near Shanghai. According to the Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai, there is no indication that the suspect, apparently Chinese, intentionally attacked Japanese citizens. However, the embassy has issued a security alert, stating that stabbings have recently occurred in crowded places in China, including parks and schools.

EGYPT-SAUDI ARABIA

The Egyptian government revoked the licenses of 16 tourist agencies for “fraud” after the death of more than 1,000 people during the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, also evoking possible criminal actions. The AFP news agency quoted an Arab diplomat as saying that at least 658 of the approximately 1,300 total dead in Mecca came from Egypt, and almost all of them are estimated to have been unregistered pilgrims.

INDIA

It’s raining roof water in the most sacred area of ​​the Ram temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, inaugurated with great pomp by Indian Prime Minister Modi just five months ago. The chief priest Acharya Satyendra Das denounced it after the first heavy downpours since its opening to the public. Accusing negligence in the construction of the temple, Das claimed that there are no devices to drain rainwater from the premises of the new temple built at the place revered as the birthplace of Ram and where until a few years ago there was a Muslim mosque.

TERRORISM

Sunday’s attack in two cities in Dagestan, according to the Isw War Research Institute, must be attributed to the Isis cell of Vilayat Kavkaz, after verifying how the Russian branch of Al-Azaim Media, an asset of Vilayat Khorasan, published a statement praising “our brothers from the Caucasus” for showing what they are capable of.

RUSSIA

The president of the Russian autonomous district of Khanty-Mansijsk, Natalia Komarova, Russia’s only female governor and head of the Jugra zone, the country’s main oil-producing region, resigned, declaring that “Russia was not prepared for war and had no need of it, we had built our future in a different way”.