These teams will not suffer any penalties, and will still participate in the Champions League 2021/22 according to the position won in the domestic tournament. Previously, UEFA had filed a lawsuit with the Court in Switzerland, but the Ministry of Justice of this country stated that there was not enough basis to give a penalty to Real, Juve and Barca. The judges argued that UEFA was restricting creativity, eliminating competition and limiting audience choice. Ronaldo and his main lane teammates attend next season’s Champions League. Photo: Reuters. This announcement will not apply to the 9 clubs that have withdrawn from the plan to organize the Super League. UEFA still fines Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Tottenham, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid 5% of revenue in a season, respectively 15 million euros. In addition, these clubs will have to pay a fine of up to 100 million euros if they participate in an unauthorized tournament in the future. While the teams signed the pledge with UEFA, Real, Juve and Barca rejected all attempts to negotiate. President Florentino Perez affirmed that FIFA and UEFA do not have the right to issue any penalty. On the night of June 9 (Hanoi time), British media reported that Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool also had to pay a total of £22 million fine to the Premier League organizers for being in the Super founding group. League. This money is used to solve existing problems in the English Premier League, to support fans and the community, not to be divided among the remaining 14 clubs. If they continue to participate in another tournament that is not allowed by the Premier League organizers, the “Big Six” group must pay a fine of 25 million pounds and have 30 points deducted in the league. ‘Never forgive the guys behind the Super League’ After 6 English teams withdrew from the Super League, Sky Sports commentator Kaveh Solhekol continued to strongly criticize the owners behind the plan for this tournament.

Most of the stolen items mentioned above were seized at the airport and ports on the island. According to regional law enacted in 2017, fines for this crime range from $600-3,600. The stolen items will be returned to the beach by the authorities when conditions permit. Since 2017, the government has enacted a law that makes it illegal to take sand from Sardinia’s beaches. The law was enacted to prevent the bad effects of tourists stealing sand and shells when coming to this Mediterranean island. Tourists who steal sand from Sardinia Island (Italy) will be fined. Photo: Traveler. Earlier in September 2020, a French tourist was fined $1,200, equivalent to about VND 27.8 million, for taking sand from this island. According to the Infonet Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean and is an autonomous region of Italy. The island’s idyllic white sands are heavily guarded and any tourists who remove the sand from the beach will face fines of up to $3,550, about $82.3 million. copper, even jail time. It is known that thieves often target beach areas with unusually colored sand, pink or fine white. Accordingly, control measures have become “much stricter” in recent years on this island. Locals and tourists are encouraged to contact the authorities if they see someone taking illegal sand. Truc Chi (th)

Twitter icon on mobile phone and tablet screens. Photo: AFP/VNA Since March, Russia’s Communications Supervision Agency (Roskomnadzor) has reduced the transmission speed of Twitter in Russia because the social network did not urgently remove banned content, and warned to block all activities. of this platform on the territory of Russia. According to Roskomnadzor, there are thousands of banned content on Twitter, such as suicide instructions, inciting suicide, materials with sexually explicit images of minors, or information on drug preparation and use. .. Twitter has denied allegations that allow users to take advantage of this social networking platform to incite illegal acts, asserting that Twitter has a “zero tolerance” policy for child sexual abuse. as well as behavior that encourages suicide or self-harm. According to Roskomnadzor, since March, Twitter has removed 91% of banned content, but still hundreds of posts are showing. In recent months, Russia has tightened regulations aimed at controlling technology and social media corporations. Two days ago, a Russian court fined Google “tech giant” 4 million rubles ($54,540) for not removing content on the country’s banned list.

Inspector of Hanoi Department of Information and Communications sanctioned Mr. Tran Van Duy for administrative violations. On May 10, the Hanoi Department of Information and Communications issued Decision No. 53/QD-XPVPHC, sanctioning an administrative violation against Mr. Tran Van Duy for providing false information. Specifically, at 19:30 on May 4, Mr. Tran Van Duy (born in 1982 in Hoang Liet ward, Hoang Mai district, Hanoi) used a personal facebook page named “Hanoi Pho” ( address: https://www.facebook.com/hanoiphotv) posted information “Hanoi street is open in the first day of blockade”, accompanied by a video about Hanoi street experience, false information content In fact, violating the provisions of Article 5 of Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP dated July 15, 2013 of the Government on management, provision and use of Internet services and online information. Facebook account “Hanoi Pho” is a personal electronic information page set up by Mr. Tran Van Duy, through the use of the social network facebook to provide and share information. According to the above regulations, Mr. Duy is only allowed to post personal information, however, Mr. Tran Van Duy has posted on this account information about Hanoi’s cuisine and information about the Covid-19 epidemic. Pursuant to Point a, Clause 3, Article 99 of Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020 of the Government providing for penalties for administrative violations in the fields of post, telecommunications, radio frequencies, With regard to information technology and electronic transactions, the Inspector of Hanoi Department of Information and Communications has fined Mr. Tran Van Duy for an administrative violation with an amount of VND 12.5 million. The remedy is to force the removal of the offending information.

Tran Van Duy, the owner of the Facebook account “Hanoi Pho” was fined 12.5 million VND for posting false information Specifically, at 19:30 on May 4, 2021, Mr. Tran Van Duy used his personal Facebook page named “Hanoi Pho” to post information “Hanoi Street Thong Thong Thong Day”. The #hnp blockade head is accompanied by a video about Hanoi street experiences on May 4, 2021, with false information content, violating the provisions of Article 5 of Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP dated May 4, 2021. 15/7/2013 by the Government to manage, provide and use Internet services and information on the network. According to Clause 4, Article 20 of Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP dated July 15, 2013 of the Government on management, provision and use of Internet services and online information: “Personal information website is Website established by an individual or through the use of social networking services to provide and exchange information of that individual, not on behalf of other organizations or individuals, and not provide aggregate information”. The facebook account “Hanoi Pho” is a personal electronic information page set up by Mr. Tran Van Duy through the use of the social network facebook to provide and share information. According to the above regulations, Mr. Duy is only allowed to post personal information, however, Mr. Tran Van Duy has posted on his facebook account “Hanoi Pho” information about Hanoi’s cuisine and information about the COVID-19 epidemic. . Through verification, the Inspector of Hanoi Department of Information and Communications confirmed that the content of the information posted above is untrue and violates the provisions of Article 5 – Decree No. 72/2013/ND-CP dated 15 July 2013 by the Government to manage, provide and use internet services and information on the network. Pursuant to Point a, Clause 3, Article 99 – Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020 of the Government providing for penalties for administrative violations in the fields of post, telecommunications, radio frequency On electricity lines, information technology and electronic transactions, the Inspector of Hanoi Department of Information and Communications fined 12.5 million VND for administrative violations against Tran Van Duy. Currently, Tran Van Duy has removed false information on his Facebook account.

Facebook may be fined $ 1.8 million in Israel for “acquiring” 2 companies without permission According to Reuters, Facebook is facing a fine of up to $ 1.8 million for its act of acquiring two Israeli companies, RedKix Inc in 2018 and Service Friend Ltd in 2019 but without approval and violating the law. clause in the Economic Competition Law of Israel. Authorities in the country argue that Facebook has a market share in Israel in excess of 50% and that the group must report transactions and obtain consent before any merger in the country. . The authorities also said that Facebook and Istagram are two exclusive social networks in Israel. Facebook will face a hearing soon and the company will have 60 days to appeal the charges before serving the fine. Talking about this, Facebook has denied allegations of antitrust behavior and said that Facebook is still cooperating with the investigations of the authorities. In addition, Facebook believes that there is no reporting obligation in relation to these transactions and hopes that the competent authorities will come to the right conclusions. Last year, Facebook was also fined by the US federal court up to $5 billion related to data privacy violations and forced Facebook to strengthen privacy protections, provide quarterly report on the implementation of the agreement and the establishment of an independent monitoring board. In Canada, Facebook was also fined $6.5 million by the Competition Bureau for sharing user information with other companies.

Illustration. (Source: AFP/VNA) Italy’s antitrust agency said on May 13 that it had fined Google more than 100 million euros ($120 million) for abusing its market position by removing an app. smartphone of the opponent. In a statement, Italy’s antitrust agency said it had found Google – whose Android operating system and the Google Play app store dominates the Italian market – blocking an Enel X application for users. tram . The agency requires Google to include the Enel X application in Android Auto – a smart connection system that makes it easier and safer for car occupants to use phone features. The statement stated that a fine of 102,084,433.91 euros was imposed due to Google violates article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (EU) with respect to monopoly control and matters related to restriction of competition. Italy discovered that Google had not allowed Enel X Italia to develop a version of the JuicePass app compatible with Android Auto. The JuicePass app provides services related to vehicle charging, such as finding the nearest charging station and keeping a spot at that charging station. According to the Italian antitrust agency , by not integrating the Enel X Italia app into Android Auto, Google unfairly restricted users’ access to the Enel X Italia app when they were driving and charging the vehicle. The agency stated that Google’s above action has continued for more than two years and if it continues, this could deprive the Enel X Italia of the opportunity to build a large number of users amid rising electric car sales strong. As a result, the Italian antitrust authority asked Google to include Enel X Italia and other application developers’ application programming tools in Android Auto, and the agency would monitor Google’s compliance through an independent expert with whom Google is obligated to cooperate.

Penalty for Facebook account holder for posting false information about Covid-19 translation Specifically, at 19:30 on May 4, 2021, Mr. Tran Van Duy used his personal website facebook called “Ha Noi Pho” (address: https: //www.facebook. com / hanoiphotv) publishes the information “Hanoi Thong Tho Street in the First Day of Blockade #hnp” together with 01 video about Hanoi street experience dated May 4, 2021, content is false information, violation provisions in Article 5 of the Government’s Decree No. 72/2013 / ND-CP dated July 15, 2013 on management, provision and use of Internet services and online information. According to Clause 4 Article 20 of the Government’s Decree No. 72/2013 / ND-CP dated July 15, 2013 on management, provision and use of Internet services and online information: “Personal websites are Personal website means an website established or established by an individual through the use of social networking services to provide and exchange information of that individual, not representing the team. organizations or individuals and do not provide aggregate information “. The facebook account “Hà Nội Phố” is a personal website set up by Mr. Tran Van Duy through the use of facebook social networks to provide and share information. According to the above regulations, Mr. Duy can only post personal information, however, Mr. Tran Van Duy has posted on his facebook account “Hà Nội Phố” information about Hanoi cuisine and information about translation Covid-19. . Pursuant to Point a, Clause 3, Article 99 of the Government’s Decree No. 15/2020 / ND-CP dated February 3, 2020, providing for the sanctioning of administrative violations in the fields of post, telecommunications and radio frequency, In information technology and electronic transactions, the Inspector of the Hanoi Department of Information and Communications sanctioned Mr. Tran Van Duy an amount of 12.5 million VND. Remedy: Forcible removal of infringing information. At the same time, Mr. Duy has removed the infringing information.

The tourist information site Discover Puerto Rico said that from April 28, tourists to the islands will be fined $ 300 if they fail to present a negative Covid-19 result and be forced to take a PCR test right after. there. Covid-19 quick test results are also not recognized. Within 48 hours, visitors can upload the results to the online portal “Travel Safe” and can then continue their journey. Tourists visit the ruins of Old San Juan. Source: Discover Puerto Rico Previously, Puerto Rico had imposed a $ 100 fine policy for visitors who refused to wear masks in public. Island-wide curfews are in effect every night, starting from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The public areas at the hotels are still closed. Puerto Rico recommends that the elderly, those who are sick, have a chronic illness should not travel at this time. Public beaches are still welcome, although drinking alcohol in public is prohibited. Although the museums, swimming pools and attractions are all open, reservations are encouraged as many destinations are only running at 30% capacity./.

Icon of Tik Tok video-sharing application on smartphone screen in Paris, France. Photo: AFP / VNA Former UK children’s commissioner Anne Longfield, and the law firm Scott + Scott, on behalf of children under the age of 13 in the UK and 16 years old in the European Economic Area (EEA) filed a lawsuit against TikTok and the public. parent company ByteDance. The lawsuit alleges TikTok and ByteDance violate the data protection laws of children (GDPR) of the UK and the European Union (EU) and deceive parents about the extent of personal information leakage of the children. kids when they use this app. TikTok’s behavior is believed to affect more than 3.5 million children in the UK. In a statement dated April 21, Ms. Longfield emphasized “TikTok is an extremely popular social media platform that helps children keep in touch with their friends during the past extremely difficult year. Behind the hilarious songs, choreography challenges and the lip-sync movement is something much more damaging. According to her, parents as well as children have the right to personal information, including phone number, physical location and illegally collected videos. The former UK children’s commissioner stated that the lawsuit is intended to force TikTok to “terminate data collection”, and to ask the platform to remove any personal information that has been “illegally processed”. when kids use this app. The lawsuit states that since May 2018, every child using TikTok, regardless of having an account or possible privacy settings, has been illegally collected by ByteDance through TikTok for the benefit of Unidentified third parties. The lawsuit also mentioned recent hefty fines for TikTok in the US and South Korea following cases of child data leaks. In response, TikTok insists the app has “robust policies, procedures and technologies to help protect all users, especially teen users”. TikTok will strongly protect itself, while asserting that privacy and safety are always the “top priority” of this platform.

In the worst case scenario, the organization leading European football will ban both Real and Juve from the Champions League in the 2021/22 season. The final decision will be announced after the meeting ends. Real can win the La Liga title, but cannot get a Champions League ticket next season. Photo: Getty. While other teams have withdrawn from the plan to organize the Super League, Real and Juve still show their stubborn attitude, despite being allowed by UEFA to correct their mistakes. On the morning of April 22 (Hanoi time), President Flornetino Perez also confirmed that the Super League will not collapse, but only pause. “If you think the Super League has collapsed, you are mistaken. The plan is only suspended. 12 clubs cannot be changed by their own accord, because we have signed a contract before. I am not afraid of UEFA, nor are I afraid. FIFA “, journalist Fabrizio Romano quoted President Florentino Perez ‘remarks. Man Utd is also one of the teams that initiated the Super League project. Joel Glazer, owner of the Manchester football team, was also elected vice president of the tournament. However, “Red Devils” and 5 major Premier League clubs changed their minds and withdrew from the Super League on April 28. This move received applause from the UEFA president himself. ‘Never forgive the guys behind Super League’ After six English teams withdrew from the Super League, Sky Sports commentator Kaveh Solhekol continued to strongly criticize the owners behind the plans for this tournament.

Specifically, with the above violation, Becamex was fined for false declaration of nearly 8.5 billion VND, the late payment of value added tax was more than 2.9 billion VND, the late payment interest of corporate income tax. industry is more than 1.4 billion. Becamex Industrial Development and Investment Corporation was fined and had to pay 57 billion VND. According to the decision of the Tax Department of Binh Duong province, Becamex corporate income tax to be temporarily paid in 2020 is 1.87 billion VND, temporarily not sanctioned for false declaration and late payment interest due to the deadline for the inspection conclusion. time of submission of corporate income tax finalization declarations. Thus, the total amount of fines and tax arrears that Becamex has to pay into the state budget is more than 57 billion VND. In particular, Becamex has fully paid the arrears of corporate income tax and value added tax of 2019 and 2020 into the state budget on February 25. Regarding the business situation, accumulated in 2020, BCM’s net revenue reached 7,723 billion VND, a decrease of 6% compared to the previous year, profit after tax reached 2,149 billion VND, a decrease of 18% compared to 2019. In 2020, Becamex planned Total revenue target is 6,016 billion VND, EAT is 931 billion VND, 40% and 65% lower, respectively compared to 2019. Accordingly, although the business result is lower than 2019, BCM still has completed. successfully exceeded 28% of its revenue target and reached 131% of its profit after tax target. As of 31/12/2020, BCM’s total assets increased by 10.7% compared to the beginning of the year to 48,190.8 billion dong. In which, main assets are inventories reached 24,165.6 billion VND, accounting for 50.1% of total assets; long-term financial investment reached 11,893.5 billion VND, accounting for 24.7% of total assets; Short-term receivables reached 3,655.4 billion VND, accounting for 7.6% of total assets. In the fiscal year, total short-term and long-term loans increased by 2.4% compared to the beginning of the year, corresponding to an increase of VND352.6 billion to 14,900.3 billion and accounting for 30.9% of total capital of BCM. . Thu Ha (Th)

ByteDance, Baidu and CTrip are committed to ensuring fair competition. Photo: Reuters More than 20 leading Chinese technology companies have publicly pledged to adhere to antitrust principles, after regulators asked them to pay attention to the record penalty for the “giant” e-commerce. Alibaba. In a series of separate statements published by the China Market Regulatory Authority on April 14-15, some of the country’s biggest tech brands – including ByteDance, Baidu and CTrip – pledged will “ensure fair competition”, “do not abuse a dominant market position” and “do not conduct unfair pricing practices”. The pledges come after regulators summoned 34 technology companies on April 13 and asked them to “rectify” any unfair non-competitive practices, and pay attention to in the case of Alibaba. Companies have one month for full reform, after conducting internal audits and adjusting practices that compromise fair competition. Ride-hailing service Didi, video streaming platforms Kuaishou and Bilibili, as well as e-commerce company JD.com were among the parties that have made a public commitment since that meeting. JD.com said it will not force “choose one of the two” behavior on its retailers – where merchants are required to work on only one platform, not on a competitor platform. . This is the policy that Alibaba used to apply. In its statement, Didi pledged that unless necessary for regular business operations, the company will not illegally collect or misuse customers’ personal information. Last weekend, Chinese regulators fined Alibaba up to $ 2.78 billion after a months-long investigation found the company abused its dominant position in the market. Alibaba and JD.com, along with games and messaging app giant Tencent, have greatly benefited from the increasingly technological lifestyles in China and the absence of major U.S. competitors. But as these platforms with hundreds of millions of regular users are growing, public opinion is increasingly concerned about the problem of user data that these companies collect over the long term. According to observers, China has put domestic technology companies on the target to limit the reach of private companies to the daily financial activities of its people. That move could curb their dominance.

Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti told Congress: “This is a historic law for children and our society. No adult abuser can ask for the consent of a minor under 15 years of age.

Congress said on Twitter unanimously vote in favor of the bill at the final review.

Some lawmakers mean, meanwhile, that the age of consent below the level where sex automatically constitutes rape could criminalize a consensual relationship between a minor and a single person. several years older.

View of a session in the French National Assembly – Photo: Reuters

Therefore, the “Romeo and Juliet” provision in the law allows for an emotional relationship between a minor and an older individual 5 years of age or older. The term will not apply in cases of sexual assault.

The law also considers incestuous sex with minors under 18 years of age as rape.

In France, many sexual abuse cases against women and children over the years went undetected or undeclared, happening in an environment of power and among celebrities.

But a lot has changed in recent years.

The #MeToo movement spread around the world after many women in 2017 accused US film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault that created a turning point in the matter in France.

France strengthened its law on sex crimes in 2018 by banning street sexual harassment, forcing lewd men to face fines on the spot.

The controversial “choose 1 in 2” strategy in the past five years in China has finally become qualitative in imposing monopolistic business practices, and Alibaba has become the first “victim” to gender. This country’s official “stunned”.

Penalties of up to 18,288 billion yuan ($ 2.8 billion) issued by China’s State Market Supervision Department against Alibaba account for 4% of the group’s 2019 revenue.

The group of billionaire Jack Ma has continuously encountered bad luck in recent times.

Not merely a punishment, the meaning of the case went far beyond its original purpose. This is said to be a warning to the entire Internet industry in China, and the move also shows Beijing is accelerating its war of antitrust against big tech companies.

Alibaba: “Big trees catch the wind”

In fact, legal disputes over Alibaba’s monopoly conduct have long existed. Starting in November 2015, Alibaba’s “choose 1 in 2” policy under Jack Ma was accused of disrupting the e-commerce market and many platforms repeatedly called for a boycott of this behavior.

It was not until December 2020 that the State Market Administration of China conducted the first antitrust investigation and a final decision was made. Basically, Alibaba immediately expressed its attitude to cooperate with the authorities. “We recognize that today’s penalty is a warning and motivating us, it is a standard and concern for the industry’s development,” an Alibaba representative said in the Letter. customers and the public.

In the opinion of many market analysts, that penalty is inherently beneficial for Alibaba, because conservative policies in recent years have made them gradually lag in e-commerce. This also allows the Internet economic platform to re-focus on sustaining innovation, instead of relying on dominant positions to “protect” the market. More importantly, the warning for Alibaba will form a strong competitive advantage in the market in the future.

Other platforms started to be wary

In addition to warning Alibaba, the penalty serves as a deterrent to the entire Chinese internet industry. After all, the problem of monopoly is not limited to just one platform and with the current scale of operations, it is completely understandable that Alibaba is being targeted first.

Over the years, the platform economy has benefited from the rapid growth and popularity of the Internet. Based on the cumulative effect, the platforms quickly formed certain areas, especially e-commerce. Up to a certain stage, natural monopoly properties will arise and the larger the platform scale, the more obvious the advantage.

However, “if the platforms misuse this advantage, leading to the formation of unfair competition, the behavior is suspected to be illegal”, the punishment that the Administration Department oversees. China has proved it. Realizing the risk, many leading e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, Tmall, JD, 1688 … started to change policies to avoid becoming the next victim of the regulator.

The Internet antitrust campaign in China is accelerating

“This time Alibaba was fined and signaled that relevant departments had tightened antitrust oversight of the platform economy. I believe there will be other antitrust enforcement cases in the future, not just this one, “said a researcher at the Center for Intellectual Property Research, University of Political Science and Law.

In addition, strengthening antitrust and preventing capital expansion causing market disruption is also the Chinese government’s consistent attitude, which was specifically mentioned at the Central Economic Work Conference held. at the end of last year. However, from the development context over the years, the monopoly monitoring here still has a certain delay.

With the rapid development and changing of Internet economic platforms, law enforcement or administrative governance need to keep up with the times, forcing the Chinese authorities to speed up the antitrust war. This is expected to create fair competition and maintain standardized market vitality in the future.

A view of the JCPOA Joint Committee meeting on April 6, in Vienna, Austria. Photo: Reuters

According to JCPOA regulations, Iran’s uranium enrichment level is at 3.67% and must not be stockpiled more than 300kg of raw materials. However, Iran has now enriched uranium by up to 20%, even claiming to be able to enrich as much as 90%. Iran’s enrichment of uranium to the point of making nuclear weapons has left powers like “sitting on a fire pan.”

Talks in Vienna, Austria, began last week in an effort to bring the U.S. and Iran back to the JCPOA. In 2018, the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement. Now, more than two months after taking the leadership of the United States, President Joe Biden is making a “reversal” of his predecessor’s policy to “revive” the JCPOA.

International experts see the fact that the negotiators “revived” the JCPOA is a very positive signal, but in reality, the process is not easy with many obstacles. The negotiations will have a very complex scenario and developments, most evident in the form of negotiations when the U.S. and Iran do not directly have dialogue with each other.

The negotiation is carried out in the form of individual dialogue between the parties and communication through intermediaries. All JCPOA participants agreed to form 2 Working Groups. The first group will look at how the U.S. returns to the JCPOA by lifting sanctions on Iran. The second group will study how Iran will return to JCPOA compliance.

Analysts point out that the process of negotiating the JCPOA “revived” obstacles with 3 main issues. First of all is assurances about Iran’s shrinking of its nuclear program in accordance with the JCPOA, while specifically determining what sanctions the U.S. will lift on Iran. While Iran wants to lift most sanctions in exchange for its compliance with the JCPOA, the U.S. is only considering lifting sanctions related to the Iran nuclear issue.

President Biden’s administration insists the U.S. is willing to rescind sanctions on Iran that are believed to be inconsistent with the JCPOA but also stressed that the U.S. expects compliance with the deal on the part of Iran.

However, the Iranian side is unlikely to reverse its steps until U.S. sanctions are lifted. This is considered the second largest “barrier”. Namely, the order in which the U.S. lifted sanctions on Iran first and then Iran complied with the JCPOA again, or Iran complied with the JCPOA first before the U.S. lifted the sanctions. Although the process of “reviving” the JCPOA has shown very positive signs, the level of tension is still very high when the US and Iran will probably not give in to each other.

The third obstacle that is analyzed by experts is the schedule of negotiations. In June, Iran will enter the election of a new President and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will not be re-elected due to the end of his second consecutive term. Many are concerned that the successor to the President of Iran may not take the JCPOA as seriously as Mr. Hassan Rouhani. So if the process of “reviving” the JCPOA is not achieved in his final days in office, it is very likely that the new administration will not negotiate with the US on the deal.

According to experts, Iran’s confidence in the JCPOA has been “eroded.” It would be unacceptable for the U.S. to cancel the deal and now return without “paying the price” for its actions. Especially with 3 obstacles in the process of “reviving” in which analysts point out, to achieve this goal will surely need to make breakthroughs in the short period between now and before the Iranian elections in June. In a scenario where the JCPOA is indeed “collapsing,” experts believe, the parties will proceed with a new international agreement or treaty to replace the JCPOA.

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Alibaba was fined $ 2.8 billion for alleged monopoly.

JD.com, Meituan and ByteDance lead China’s first group of Big Tech companies to commit to complying with the law after China Market Surveillance Agency (SAMR) asked them to “learn lessons” from Alibaba. Group Holding in Beijing’s latest antitrust investigation.

On April 14, 12 out of 34 tech companies released a public statement pledging to do business in compliance with the law after SAMR warned of Alibaba’s recent antitrust sanctions and conducted self-testing. next month.

Earlier, e-commerce giant Alibaba was fined a record $ 2.8 billion for forcing small businesses to sell exclusive products on the platform. Monopolistic behavior is understood as how businesses eliminate competition of competitors by forcing customers to choose “one of two”.

JD.com has made eight promises including “never taking measures to force sellers to choose either and never abusing a dominant market position or making any exclusive deals. “. The e-commerce group also said it will “never publish illegal advertisements and never sell products of substandard quality”.

Meituan’s delivery staff.

Meituan promised not to impose unreasonable measures forcing sellers to “choose one of the two” and would not abuse its market position to limit competition. In addition, the company is committed to providing full support to the Chinese regulatory authorities. “Once we find evidence of illegal conduct, we will report it to regulators in a timely manner and readily cooperate with any investigation,” Meituan said.

ByteDance, the owners of short video apps TikTok and Douyin, made 13 promises in its public statement. China’s most valuable unicorn company says it will “not illegally collect and misuse user data” and adhere to “minimum guidelines” in collecting data from users. E-commerce platform Pinduoduo said it will “proactively assume more social responsibility”, as well as comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

The rest of the companies are expected to announce their public commitment over the next two days

Beijing’s targeting of key Big Tech firms including Kuaishou, Bilibili and Didi Chuxing comes at a time when the Chinese government is resolutely using antitrust laws and other regulatory methods to halt. out-of-control expansion.

SAMR has accused major tech companies of misconduct such as forcing sellers to choose only one trading platform, abuse of market dominance, abuse of big data to unfair pricing. for certain customers, ignoring poor quality products, leaking customer data, and tax evasion.

“No one is allowed to cross the regulatory lines and not touch the legal red line,” SAMR said on Tuesday.

34 Internet service providers are on the spot, many of which are listed on US and Hong Kong exchanges. Companies were asked to “raise responsibility and give priority to the national interests”.

“Companies must absolutely avoid disordered capital expansion to ensure China’s economic and social security, you must absolutely avoid monopolies to ensure fair competition,” according to Beijing’s statement towards Internet service platforms.

SAMR says companies have one month to do a “self-check and self-repair”, after which the government will conduct follow-up and “severely punish” those companies that fail to address the misconduct.