KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 4 – Malaysia is not expected to see a property bubble in the next five years, said iProperty General Manager Data Services, P. Premendran. He said Malaysia has prepped fallback measures from the 1997-1998 economic turmoil and from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis in 2008. “Malaysia would not be
SINGAPORE, Apr 4 – Concur, an SAP company and one of the world’s leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, has announced a collaboration with AirAsia Group that will help Concur Travel customers access regular and exclusive corporate content from AirAsia. The latter content is available only to customers
GEORGE TOWN, Apr 4 – A forum on water demand management in Penang, World Water Day 2017, to be held on 5th April 2017 (Wednesday), 4pm to 6pm at Penang Institute Conference Hall. World Water Day is held annually on March 22nd as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating
TOKYO, Apr 4 – Fujitsu Limited and Oracle today announced the launch of Fujitsu SPARC M12, a new lineup of enterprise servers now available worldwide. Featuring Fujitsu’s new SPARC64 XII processor, Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers achieve the world’s highest per CPU core performance in arithmetic processing, offering dramatic improvements for a wide range
NEW DELHI, Apr 4 – AirAsia Group is pleased to be part of Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s visit to India, in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the India and Malaysia. AirAsia Berhad Executive Chairman and AirAsia X Group CEO, Datuk
TOKYO, Apr 4 – Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that the smell identification test “UPSIT Series” will be launched today for sale to health insurance pharmacies and local governments in Japan. The UPSIT Series was developed by Sensonics International. Eisai has obtained exclusive rights to market the test in Japan,
MOSCOW, Apr 3 – Fifty people have been injured by the blasts in St Petersburg’s metro system on Monday, Andrey Kibitov, the head of the city governor’s press service said on Twitter. Seventeen ambulances are currently treating the injured, Kibitov said. All the city’s metro stations have been closed, Interfax earlier reported.
SAINT PETERSBURG, Apr 3 – The Saint Petersburg metro has closed all stations after a blast killed around 10 people on Monday, news agencies reported. The metro servicing Russia’s second largest city said it had closed all stations at 15:40 local time (12:40 GMT) amid an ongoing evacuation. It remains unclear
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 3 – AirAsia X Bhd and PT Indonesia AirAsia (IAA) today entered into an IATA Standard Ground Handling Agreement. In a filing to Bursa Malaysia, AirAsia X said IAA would provide ground handling services to its intended flights into and out of the Indonesian stations where the latter
NEW DELHI, Apr 3 – India’s PV Sindhu defeated top seed Carolina Marin of Spain in straight games to win the final match of the India Open badminton tournament in New Delhi on Sunday. Third seed Sindhu beat the Spaniard 21-19, 21-16 in a match that lasted 46 minutes at the Siri
SAINT PETERSBURG, Apr 3 – Around 10 people were feared dead on Monday after an explosion rocked the metro system in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg, according to authorities and news reports. “The Saint Petersburg prosecutor’s office has begun to investigate the blast in a train carriage” at the Technological Institute
JAKARTA, Apr 3 – Maybank Indonesia Tbk (Maybank Indonesia) today announced the appointment of Group President and Chief Executive Officer of Maybank Datuk Abdul Farid Alias as its new President Commissioner. Maybank Indonesia Head of Corporate Communications and Branding Esti Nugraheni, said in a statement, that Abdul Farid was taking over
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 3 – The government has declared April 24 as an additional public holiday for the whole country in conjunction with the coronation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V. The Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa said Section 8 of the Public Holidays Act 1951
POTOMAC FALLS, Apr 3 – President Donald Trump says that the United States is prepared to act alone if China does not take a tougher stand against North Korea’s nuclear program. Trump’s comments in an interview with the Financial Times come just days before he is set to host Chinese President
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 3 – An earthquake of 5.5 on the Richter scale rocked southern Sumatera at 9.55 pm yesterday. The area hit is 105km Northwest of Bengkulu. A statement issued by Malaysian Meteorological Department said that the quake was located 578km Southwest of Pontian, Johor. No tsunami threat was issued due to
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 2 – The driver of the trailer that was involved in an accident on the North South Expressway near the Tanjung Malim Toll Plaza, which killed a family of six, has been detained. Hulu Selangor District Police chief, Supt R. Supramaniam said the 27-year-old driver was detained to
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 2 – More than 1,000 of the 3,000 tonnes of waste dumped every day by city folks are leftovers that are basically untouched and still edible. Describing the wastage as sad and worrying, Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said the waste in question should
KOTA MARUDU, Apr 2 – Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today said there was still an International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) red notice out for the arrest of four suspects linked to the murder of North Korean Kim Jong-nam. Zahid, who is also Home Minister, said the
JAIPUR, Apr 2 – Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak is making a day trip to Rajasthan to oversee Malaysia’s participation in India’s infrastructure projects and to explore investment opportunities. Accompanied by his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the prime minister arrived here at 11.23am from New Delhi where he had a fruitful
KUCHING, Apr 1 – World No.1 and defending champion Datuk Lee Chong Wei is expected to make a winning start when he goes down to face world No. 14 Quseph Rajiv of England in the first round of the men’s singles at the Celcom Axiata Malaysia Open. The BWF World Superseries
