Current Affairs 5th April 2017

Current Affairs 5th April 2017 - Important Points

• Twitter's head of Asia-Pacific- quits
• The youngest person to address Canadian Parliament - Malala

Current Affairs 5th April 2017 - Details

Twitter's head of Asia-Pacific- quits

Aliza Knox, Twitter’s head of Asia-Pacific business announced her retirement from the company in the first week of April 2017. Knox’s exit from the micro-blogging site comes on the back of the loss of a number of high-profile Asia-based executives in 2016, including Managing Director for Southeast Asia, India, Middle East and North Africa region Parminder Singh, India head Rishi Jaitly, China head Kathy Chen and Australia country boss Karen Stocks. Knox was Twitter’s first hire in Asia (Japan not included) when she joined the company in 2012. Twitter runs its Japan business separate from its APAC operations. Before joining Twitter, she spent five years at Google.

Key Highlights

• Twitter is an online news and social networking site.
• The company's headquarter is in San Francisco, California, United States.
• It was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July 2006.
• Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites in 2013 and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet".
• On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, this micro-blogging site proved to be the largest source of breaking news.

The youngest person to address Canadian Parliament - Malala

The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau announced on 3rd April 2017 that the youngest Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai, will be addressing the country’s parliament on 12th April 2017. The young Pakistani activist will also be receiving her honorary Canadian citizenship.

Key Highlights

• Canadian Prime Minister announced that 19-year-old Yousafzai will be the youngest person to address the country’s Parliament. 
• Trudeau also added that he would be discussing girls empowerment through education with Yousafzai on the occasion. 
• Yousafzai was targeted for her advocacy for women’s education at the age of 15 when she was shot in the head by Taliban militants while returning from her school.
• She won world praise with her campaign for female education and human rights advocacy.
• She is one among those six people to receive honorary Canadian citizenship.
•  In response to the invitation by the Canadian Prime Minister’s office, Malala stated that the Canadian people are leading the world in their response to the refugee crisis and she is honoured by Parliament's invitation and looks forward to visiting this great nation of heroes.

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Malala was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.