YANGON, Jun 18 – A Myanmar ship has retrieved the black box of a plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea with 122 people on board, the army said Sunday, raising hopes of discovering the cause of the tragedy. The military aircraft plunged into the sea during a routine flight from the
BEIJING, Jun 18 – At least 26 people were injured, four of them seriously, when a China Eastern Airlines flight from Paris hit turbulence on Sunday over southwest China, state media said. The incident happened when Flight MU744 from Charles de Gaulle Airport was descending to land at Kunming Changshui International Airport
TOKYO, Jun 18 – Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slumped more than 10 points to 44.9% in a public opinion poll published today, amid opposition party suspicions he used his influence unfairly to help a friend set up a business. Abe has repeatedly denied abusing his authority to benefit his
ALOR STAR, Jun 18 – PAS has admitted to facing difficulty in winning support from non-Muslims, especially the Chinese, after ending its “tahaluf siyasi” or political cooperation with DAP in the opposition pact. PAS Central Working Committee member, Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz, however, said this difficult challenge would only be
ISTANBUL, Jun 18 – Turkey on Sunday detained 21 employees of a catering firm after more than 700 soldiers required medical attention in an outbreak of food poisoning in the west of the country. The soldiers at the barracks in the western Manisa province ate a meal of soup, rice, chicken and
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 18 – CIMB Bank Berhad today announced its enhanced paternity leave benefits to enable fathers to spend more time with their first-born, and share parental responsibilities in welcoming their new baby into the world. This is in tandem with CIMB’s efforts to continuously improve employee welfare through gender-balanced policies.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 18 – Water supply in several areas around Klang, Shah Alam and Petaling which had experienced disruptions after the main pipe behind the JVC factory in Section 21, Shah Alam, burst has now been fully restored. A statement from Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) however advised
ALOR SETAR, Jun 18 – A director at the Community Development Department (Kemas) in Putrajaya pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here today to two counts of corruption involving RM159,053.22. Mohd Adnan Md Daud, 54, made the plea after the charges were read out to him before judge Azman Abu Hassan.
KUCHING, Jun 18 – The Development Bank of Sarawak (DBOS) will be operational from January, next year. Its Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg reiterated that Sarawak needed to have its own bank in order to accelerate the state’s economic development in the urban and rural areas. “The bank’s
JITRA, Jun 18 – The Northern Corridor Economic Region’s (NCER) Development Blueprint 2016-2025 expects to create more than 37,000 jobs when two growth nodes in Kedah are completed. Its chief executive officer Datuk Redza Rafiq said over the 10-year period, a total of 80 high-impact projects would be implemented in Kedah,
BOGOTA, Jun 18 – Three people including a young Frenchwoman were killed and 11 others wounded Saturday when an explosion rocked an upscale Bogota mall, the mayor said. “This cowardly terrorist attack at the Centro Andino mall is deeply distressing,” Mayor Enrique Penalosa said, without giving details on who may have been
WASHINGTON, Jun 18 – Cut taxes to boost growth. Long before Donald Trump became president, Kansas conducted a real-world experiment with this formula in the hopes of reviving its economy. But today the Midwestern state is beating a hasty retreat after the demonstrable failure of the ideas that have been embraced by
WASHINGTON, Jun 18 – Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise continued to show improvement as he recovers from being shot by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, the hospital treating him said Saturday. Scalise and three other people were shot early Wednesday at a park in suburban Washington as they practised
WASHINGTON, Jun 18 – President Donald Trump left Saturday with his wife and young son to spend the weekend at Camp David for the first time. Since taking power on January 20, Trump has spent most weekends at his resort estate Mar-a-Lago in Florida. But this time, Trump, First Lady Melania and
PUTRAJAYA, Jun 18 – The Election Commission (EC) accepts the decision of the Kuching High Court that Dr Ting Tiong Choon remains as the Sarawak assemblyman for Pujut, said EC chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Hashim Abdullah. In a statement today, he said, EC would take further action in line with the court’s
NEW YORK, Jun 18 – Shares in groceries-selling retailers, including Wal-Mart, British chain Tesco and France’s Carrefour, tumbled on Friday after Amazon’s announced it will acquire Whole Foods Market. Amazon’s deal to buy the upscale US grocery chain for $13.7 billion throttled the broader retail sector on concerns the online retail
NEW YORK, Jun 18 – Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it would buy US organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market Inc for US$13.7 billion, including debt, marking the internet retailer’s largest deal and biggest foray into the brick-and-mortar retail sector. The deal, which puts a 27 percent premium on Whole
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 17 – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has not been contacted by the United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ) over its latest filing of lawsuits to recover assets allegedly embezzled from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), said its chief commissioner, Datuk Dzulkifli Ahmad. He said that until today MACC has
TRIPOLI, Jun 17 – The Libyan coastguard has rescued more than 900 African and Asian migrants attempting to reach Europe, a navy spokesman said on Saturday. “A coastguard patrol from Zawiya (west of Tripoli) intercepted five inflatable boats and a wooden vessel carrying 906 migrants at dawn on Friday,” General Ayoub Qassem
DOHA, Jun 17 – Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said the Twitter account for its main Arabic-language channel had been suspended on Saturday, in the latest “conspiracy” to hit the station. Yasser Abuhilalah, managing director of Al-Jazeera Arabic, confirmed the suspension on social media. The suspension comes at a time of diplomatic crisis in the
