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
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 24 – Traffic flow along several major highways continues at a sluggish pace as of 12pm today. According to a North-South Expressway Project Traffic Control Centre (PLUS) spokesman, traffic remained slow-moving northbound from Rawang to Bukit Beruntung, Bukit Beruntung to Lembah Beringin and Behrang to Gopeng. He said the
PETALING JAYA, Jun 24 – A 22-year-old Malaysian was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for trying to smuggle more than a kilogramme of heroin out of Cambodia last year. The heroin has a street value of around US$700,000 (RM3 million), the Cambodia Daily reported. Ahmad Johari Chung, from Sabah state, was arrested
JAKARTA, Jun 24 – Former United States President Barack Obama flew into the resort island of Bali Friday night on a family holiday trip to Indonesia. Local online media quoted Bali Police spokesman Hengky Widjaja as saying that Obama and his family came to the island in a private aircraft. He said
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 24 – Traffic flow along several major highways this morning is reported to be slow, an inevitable phenomenon every festive season. A North-South Expressway Project Traffic Control Centre (PLUS) spokesman said northbound traffic along the North-South Expressway was at a crawl from Sungai Buaya to Bukit Beruntung, Bukit Beruntung
If you haven’t been at least a little excited by the iPhone 8 leaks we’ve seen so far, Benjamin Geskin’s latest preview based on rumors creates a rather realistic look at what we can expect later this year. Geskin has matched an alleged iPhone 8 dummy unit with a printed
PETALING JAYA, Jun 24 – Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has 8,800 TNB employees will be on duty during Hari Raya. TNB distribution network senior general manager Wan Nazmy Wan Mahmood said the employees would be on standby for 24 hours starting yesterday. “TNB is preparing to minimise any potential electricity interruption
BESUT, Jun 24 – An Uber (ride-sharing mobile application) driver sustained injuries after he was slashed with a machete and had his Kia Forte car stolen by three men while resting at a petrol station in Seberang Jerteh here early today. Besut district police chief Supt Mohd Zamri Mohd Rowi said in
WASHINGTON, Jun 24 – The White House said Friday it considers the deepening crisis in the Gulf to be primarily “a family issue,” urging regional leaders to chart a way out while offering US help in enabling talks. When asked about a list of demands placed on Doha by Saudi Arabia and
WASHINGTON, Jun 24 – The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the US presidential race, the Washington Post reported Friday. The intelligence shocked the White House and put US security chiefs on a top-secret crisis footing to figure
PUTRAJAYA, Jun 24 – Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today advised Malaysians to be calm and prudent in evaluating the allegations and slander intentionally planned by the foreign media to undermine the country’s image. He said the people should be positive and fend off all the issues raised
