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02.05.19 8 FOREIGN NEWS FACEBOOK has entered the online dating market with a feature called 'Secret Crush', through which users can select people in their friends list who they want to show a ro- mantic interest in. e feature is part of "Facebook Dating" which was announced as part of an upcom- ing redesign of the social network by its founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. Secret Crush, which won't be available in Malta, allows Facebook Dating users to choose up to nine friends who they want to express an interest in, similar to the way someone can swipe in favour of someone they like on Tinder. Contrary to Tinder, however, Facebook Dating lets its users handpick specifi c friends who they would like to date. If a user adds a Secret Crush to their list, Facebook will send a notifi cation to that per- son saying that a friend has added them as a secret crush. If that person then goes on to add as a Se- cret Crush that same user who had picked them, Facebook will match the two people and reveal their names. If the adding to the Secret Crush list is only one way, the identify of that user who select- ed the particular person would remains se- cret, so you can only know who added you as a crush if you pick them too. To use the service, users would have to create separate profi le for Facebook Dat- ing, meaning a user of the regular Facebook would not be able to pick crushes. Moreover, the feature will only be made available in countries where Facebook has launched its Dating service, including Co- lombia, Canada, ailand, Argentina, and Mexico. While Malta isn't included in the list, Facebook Dating is later this year com- ing to over a dozen new countries, including the United States. e Secret Crush feature is part of a re- vamp, codenamed "FB5", for the social net- work, which will focus on communities – called Groups – and will feature a redesign meant to improve speeds and reliability. Facebook announces new 'Secret Crush' feature as part of redesign INDONESIA is planning to spend over €29 billion to move its capital away from Jakarta, which is one of the world's fastest-sinking cities. It was announced on Monday that Indonesian president Joko Widodo – known as Jokowi – had decid- ed during a special cabinet meet- ing that the government would be moved out of the city, and that a new location for the country's cap- ital would be found. Planning Minister Bambang Brod- jonegoro, calling the decision "im- portant" for Indonesia, said that a location for the new capital is still being discussed. While the new site hasn't yet been announced, Palangkaraya, on the island of Borneo, has often been ru- moured as the location. Brodjonegoro, however, insisted that eastern Indonesia would be the preferred place to relocate the cap- ital. " is is a big job, impossible to take just one year. It could take up to 10 years," he said. e megacity of Jakarta, which is rapidly sinking into the sea, also suf- fers from a raft of modern problems, such as overpopulation, pollution and traffi c congestion considered to be the worst in the world. By 2017, 40% of the city was below sea level, e New York Times had reported at the time. e city has a population of over 10 million, but more than three times that live in its greater metro- politan area. In 2016, is was the world's 27th most populous city, according to the United Nations. e idea to move Indonesia's cap- ital away from the problems of Ja- karta had been doing the rounds for decades, but Jokowi said that it had "never been decided on or discussed in a planned and mature manner". Brodjonegoro said the new capital would required an area of between 300 to 400 sq.km. and would have a population of 900,000 to 1.5 million, a far cry from Jakarta's current num- ber of inhabitants. If the country manages to pull off the move, it won't be the fi rst to do so – Brazil, South Korea, Malay- sia and Kazakhstan have all moved their capitals in the past. e announcements to move the capital come a few weeks after a presidential election in which both the incumbent, Jokowi, and his ri- val, Prabowo Subianto, claimed vic- tory. e offi cial results will be released in May, but unoffi cial quick counts suggest Jokowi had won comforta- bly. e dual claims of victory have created some political anxiety in the country, however. Indonesia to spend 29 billion euros to move capital city hundreds of miles away Indonesia has approved plans to transfer its capital away from Jakarta, one of the world's fastest sinking cities, over a ten-year period Jakarta is one of the world's fastest-sinking cities Traffic congestion in Indonesia's capital is considered to be the worst globally Mark Zuckerberg

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