KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 – The retail price for petrol RON95 and RON97 for March will remain while the price for the diesel will be slightly increased 5 sen . Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry said the price of petrol and diesel for the month of March 2017 is as follows: RON95 : From RM 2.30/liter
TOKYO, Feb 28 – Fujitsu today announced that it is launching an initiative to transform the way its employees work, seeking to allow each and every person to create value given their limited time. The initiative’s aims are to strengthen its global competitiveness, achieve digital innovation, and improve the work-life
A few minutes of short-form video here and there can really add up – YouTube’s average video length may be quite constrained, but in aggregate, humans are watching a billion hours of its clips per day. That’s around 8.4 minutes per day per human, according to some very napkin calculations. Put in
RAMALLAH, Feb 28 – Facebook has shut down the page of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s party Fatah, apparently over a picture of late leader Yasser Arafat with a weapon, the movement said on Monday. A media officer with Fatah and one of the page’s administrators said they had received a message that their
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 28 – Two foreign women will be charged in the Sepang Magistrate’s Court tomorrow in connection with the murder of North Korean Kim Jong-nam, said Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali. He disclosed this in a WhatsApp message today. Two women, one having an Indonesian passport and the other a
The Wall Street Journal has outlined their current thinking on the next new iPhone from Apple, colloquially dubbed the iPhone 8. They believe that Apple will replace the Lightning connector on the bottom of the phone with a USB-C port, ditching its own propriety connector with an industry standard. The report also reaffirms rumors
LOS ANGELES, Feb 28 – President Donald Trump said Monday the chaos that erupted at the end of the Oscars was due to Hollywood obsessing about him rather than concentrating on running a smooth show. In an Oval Office interview with conservative website Breitbart News, Trump said Oscars organisers had taken their eyes
SEOUL, Feb 27 – South Korean intelligence believes suspects wanted for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader included several officials who worked for the reclusive state’s foreign and security ministries, according to lawmakers in Seoul. Kim Jong Nam was killed earlier this month at a Malaysian airport by assassins
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 – Malaysia and Saudi Arabia today cemented several key agreements in Malaysia’s administrative capital in conjunction with the state visit of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. King Salman and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak witnessed the signing of the memorandums of understanding. Malaysia and
TOKYO, Feb 27 – AT&T (US and Mexico), KPN (Netherlands), KDDI (Japan), NTT DOCOMO (Japan), Orange (29 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa), Telefonica (Europe), Telstra (Australia), TELUS (Canada) and Verizon (US) confirmed support for the global deployment of LTE-M at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. These operators
NEW YORK, Feb 27 – About 250 people demonstrated in support of the news media Sunday, amid stepped up attacks on the press by President Donald Trump. Although New York, a Democratic bastion, has been the scene of numerous demonstrations since Trump’s election, this was the first protest organised expressly to show
GEORGE TOWN, Feb 27 – About 12,000 consumers in eight areas will face water interruption on March 4 (Saturday) to facilitate road upgrading works by the Public Works Department (JKR). Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) CEO Datuk Jasei Maidinsa said water supply will be interrupted from 9am to 9pm. He said the connection works
SINGAPORE, Feb 27 – The impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) will be on display at SEMICON Southeast Asia, 25-27 April at SPICE in Penang. The global exhibition and conference is organised by SEMI, the global non-profit association connecting the worldwide electronics manufacturing supply chain. More than 70 industry
WASHINGTON, Feb 27 – Donald Trump on Sunday mocked the “rigged” election of a former member of Barack Obama’s presidential cabinet to the post of Democratic chairman. “The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally ‘rigged’,” Trump wrote on Twitter, one day after a gathering of Democratic party faithful elected
BUKIT MERTAJAM, Feb 27 – The Penang government will ban all “simulator machines” or “games of chance” in the state after 2018 to curb the increasing number of social problems. Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the decision was made by the state during an exco meeting following concerns about social
Known for being virtually indestructible and having a battery that kept going for days, the Nokia 3310 is one of the top selling cell phones of all time. Now, the phone that first came out in Y2K is making a comeback — with some upgraded features. According to CNET, the rebooted 3310 will have
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 – It is in Kuala Lumpur’s “Little India” neighborhood, behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a rundown building, where a military equipment company called Glocom says it has its office. Glocom is a front company run by North Korean intelligence agents that sells battlefield radio
KLANG, Feb 26 – Indian youths have been urged to provide their input and aspirations for the National Transformation 2050 (TN50) initiative launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. MIC youth chief Datuk C. Sivarraajh said the party had already begun to engage with Indian youths to gauge their
SEPANG, Feb 26 – Malaysia rolled out the red carpet for King Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia as he arrived here today for a four-day state visit to the country. On hand to receive him at Bunga Raya Complex, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) were Prime Minister Datuk Seri
SEPANG, Feb 26 – The authorities have declared KL International Airport 2 (klia2) a “safe place” after a sweep early today found no toxic materials in the wake of the killing of North Korean Kim Jong-nam there with what has been identified as the VX nerve agent. “klia2 is a
