HAMBURG, Jul 8 – US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America’s traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world’s 20 top economies were expected to have worked all night trying to hammer out a final summit
TOKYO, Jul 8 – The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, media reported Saturday, as rescuers continued work to bring out isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with water and mud have devastated swathes of Kyushu – the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands –
A DELTA Air Lines passenger was charged on Friday with instigating a mid-air brawl with flight attendants and other passengers who fought desperately to restrain him as he tried opening the exit door of a plane bound from Seattle to China. Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, of Tampa, Florida, was arrested
BEIJING, Jul 8 – Tibetan rights groups have criticised a UN cultural organisation decision to extend world heritage status to an extensive plateau area, saying it reinforces Chinese control in the region. The groups argue the Unesco designation will allow Chinese authorities to remove residents from the area, known as Hoh Xil,
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 8 – The next electricity tariff revision for Peninsular Malaysia will be in January 2018 after the government agreed to maintain the power tariff rebate of 1.52 sen/kWh from July 1 to Dec 30 this year. Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry Secretary General Datuk Seri Ir Dr Zaini
BAGAN DATUK, Jul 8 – The Registrar of Societies (RoS) has been asked to act professionally in handling the new DAP central executive committee (CEC) re-election in a legitimate and transparent manner, to enable delegates to elect 20 valid and recognised CEC members. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 8 – The United States is close to granting visa waiver status to Malaysia. The US Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) will enable Malaysians to travel there for tourism, business or transit for up to 90 days without a visa. According to a report in The Star, US Ambassador Kamala
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 8 – The ringgit ended flat against the US dollar today amid mixed sentiment in the market, a dealer said. At 6pm, the local note remained unchanged at Thursday’s close of 4.2970/3000 against the greenback. The dealer said the escalating conflict between the US and North Korea, issues surrounding US monetary policy, as well as US
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 8 – Police require more time to conduct investigations into the high-yield investment scheme JJ Poor to Rich (JJPTR) due to the immense volume of documentation, according to the nation’s top cop Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar. He said they need time to analyse the structure of the scheme
Apple has released the fifth tvOS 10.2.2 beta for Apple TV. The new tvOS beta allows developers who are registered with Apple’s developer program to test their apps on the upcoming software update for Apple TV. tvOS 10.2.2 beta follows the release of tvOS 10.2.1 which is the current public version.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has conceded that a handful of policemen received bribes from foreigners while conducting random checks. He said the matter was not easy to control and the police have taken various drastic measures, including taking action against the personnel concerned.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – The High Court here was told today that three of the accused in deputy public prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais’ murder were detected to be near the deceased’s residence before the car he was travelling in was involved in an accident with a Mitsubishi Triton pickup truck.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 – Bursa Malaysia ended broadly lower today, reversing yesterday’s gains as profit-taking emerged mostly in key heavyweights and blue-chips. At 5pm, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) fell 10.60 points to 1,759.93 after fluctuating between 1,759.46 and 1,768.61 throughout the day. Key heavyweights, Maybank and TNB, lost two sen each
ALOR STAR, Jul 7 – Gerakan is confident it can regain the Sidam and Derga State Assembly seats which it lost in the 13th general election (GE13), said its president Datuk Seri Mah Siew Kong. He said the party had already drawn up a new strategy to face GE14 instead of the
Nintendo will launch a new “Nintendo Switch Online” companion app for its latest console that will arrive on July 21 alongside the release of its new Splatoon 2 game. The Nintendo Switch Online app will allow users to invite other players with the same game via an iPhone (and presumably other
MOSCOW, Jul 7 – JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and United Settlement System (USS), a non-bank credit organization in Russia, announced the signing of a license agreement for JCB card POS acquiring in the POS-terminals network of USS and its partner banks
MILAN, Jul 7 – A five-story apartment block has collapsed near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities are working to find anyone who may have been trapped. Firefighters told Sky TG24 that six or seven people are believed to be buried in the rubble in the town of Torre
PETALING JAYA, Jul 7 – A Delta Airlines flight made a turn back soon after takeoff from Seattle to Beijing on Thursday night after a passenger attempted to enter the cockpit, CNN reported today. Citing two people familiar with the incident, it said three people were injured in the incident aboard Delta
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 7 – Microsoft said Thursday it was cutting an unspecified number of jobs amid reports the US tech giant was reorganizing its global sales operations. “Today, we are taking steps to notify some employees that their jobs are under consideration or that their positions will be eliminated,” Microsoft said
HONG KONG, Jul 7 – Hong Kong customs officials said Thursday they have seized more than $9 million worth of ivory this week in the city’s biggest haul in 30 years. Customs officers discovered 7,200kg of elephant tusks on Tuesday in a shipment from Malaysia that had been labelled as frozen fish,
