SHAH ALAM, Jun 26 – Two ‘Hentian Akhir Bandar’ (HAB) or Final City Terminals are scheduled to be fully operational by the end of the year in sections 17 and 19, according to the Shah Alam City Council. These terminals will facilitate the movement of passengers and public transport vehicles within the
LONDON, Jun 26 – Six people were injured on Sunday after a car mounted a pavement outside a sports centre in the northern English city of Newcastle, but the incident is not believed to be terrorism-related, police said. Dozens of people were at the sports center celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid,
HONG KONG, Jun 26 – Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters on Monday draped a black flag over a statue symbolising the city’s return to China by Britain, days before a visit by President Xi Jinping to mark 20 years since the handover. High-profile student campaigner Joshua Wong and a dozen demonstrators attached the
KAWASAKI, Jun 26 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced development of a technology to retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. The technology, jointly developed with Fujitsu R&D Center Co., Ltd., works by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a three-dimensional
SINGAPORE, Jun 26 – BlackGold Natural Resources Ltd (SGX:41H), a mining Company targeting Indonesia and her rapidly growing power plant industry, is pleased to announce a share placement agreement (the ‘Placement’) by which it will issue up to 66,703,000 new ordinary shares at S$0.123 per share, to raise gross proceeds
KUCHING, Jun 25 – Sarawak is still safe from the threat of Daesh militants, said Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Mazlan Mansor. He said, however, the police had never taken lightly the possibility the Daesh militants were already in the state and surveillance was always been done. “From the onset, the Sarawak police
BANGKOK, Jun 25 – When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome them with the finest food and drink and then bring out the teen girls, often referred to as “dessert”. The tradition — known by the euphemistic Thai
IPOH, Jun 25 – Perak police have recorded a 22.1% increase in road accidents from 932 cases in the state on the seventh day of Ops Selamat 11/2017 since June 18. The total was 169 cases more than 736 cases recorded in the same period last year. Perak police chief Datuk Hasnan
ISLAMABAD, Jun 25 – At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in a fire that erupted after an oil tanker overturned in central Pakistan early Sunday and crowds rushed to collect fuel, an official said. The tragedy came one day before Pakistan was due to begin Eid ul-Fitr celebrations marking
REMBAU, Jun 25 – A pregnant woman was among three people killed in an accident involving two vehicles at KM229.5 of the (PLUS) North-South Expressway northbound near the Pedas-Linggi toll plaza here this morning. The deceased were identified as Keng Swee Nee, 40, who was four months pregnant, Keng Swee May, 30, and Keng Kim Seng,
TOKYO, Jun 25 – Japan wants to hold informal free trade talks with Britain as it also works to sign a deal with the European Union, a report said Sunday. Tokyo’s moves aim to minimise Brexit’s impact on Japanese companies as Britain negotiates its exit from the EU, the business daily Nikkei
WASHINGTON, Jun 25 – Frozen out of power in Washington and having lost a string of congressional races this year, Democrats are struggling to craft winning strategies to convert disillusionment with President Donald Trump into victory in 2018’s midterm elections. The party fielded a hodgepodge of candidates in four special elections
This is the place to catch up on all the biggest product announcements, hardware, apps, synths, Logic/GarageBand instruments and so much more in the world of iOS/Mac music production. This week, Roland and Studio Electronics unveil a brand new mono analog synth, Native Instruments drops a toy box full of
MANCHESTER, Jun 25 – Police have arrested a teenage boy over the attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl in a park here yesterday. Greater Manchester Police said officers responded to reports of a girl being raped and the offender being chased off by members of the public. They were called to Nuthurst Park
WENCHUAN, Jun 25 – Rescuers dug through earth and rocks for a second day on Sunday in an increasingly bleak search for some 118 people still missing after their village in southwest China was buried by a huge landslide. Rescuers have pulled 15 bodies from the avalanche of rocks that crashed
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 25 – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak last night outlined five new risks and challenges that Malaysia has to face. The Prime Minister identified them as the issue of geopolitics; peace and security, the economy, placing the people’s interests first, and the future and National Transformation 2050 (TN50). In
BEIJING, Jun 25 – President Xi Jinping will visit Hong Kong this week to celebrate 20 years since the former British colony’s return to China, state media confirmed Sunday, a trip that will stoke resentment among pro-democracy activists. It will be Xi’s first visit to Hong Kong since the head of the
LONDON, Jun 25 – Britain’s parliament shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday following a cyberattack. A House of Commons spokeswoman said that “the Houses of Parliament have discovered unauthorised attempts to access parliamentary user accounts. “We have systems in place to protect member and staff accounts and are taking
WASHINGTON, Jun 25 – President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania stepped out of the White House Saturday to toast newly weds US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Scottish actress Louise Linton at their glitzy Washington nuptials. The wedding, held in a historic auditorium near the National Mall, had been a closely
A report earlier this week detailed Apple’s efforts to remove spam and copy-cat apps from the App Store, and one area the company specifically seems to be targeting is China. As noted in a new report from People.cn, Apple has removed around 58,000 Chinese apps from the App Store over
