KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 – The Public Accounts Committee will table 10 reports in the Dewan Rakyat at the Third Meeting, Fourth Session of the Thirteenth Parliamentary sitting. Two reports are on Smuggling and Misappropriation of Subsidised Diesel, and Certified Paddy Seeds Subsidy Programme (Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry). Two are on
HANOI, Oct 13 – A Vietnamese teenager inadvertently set herself on fire after trying to burn down her school in an ill-fated social media dare, local media reported Wednesday. In a video which has gone viral online, the 13-year-old girl can be seen pouring petrol in front of a door at her
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak today extended his condolences over the passing of the Sultan of Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah’s sister Tengku Hajah Faridah Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar today. She was 70. “My heartfelt condolences to Y.A.M Tengku’s family and the Royal Family of Pahang. May
It would be one thing if the Galaxy Note 7 was just a middling phone. But it was a legitimately great one. And one that, by all accounts, sold pretty well. The handset made its way into a lot of hands in the less than two months that it was
GENEVA, Oct 12 – The UN’s rights chief warned Wednesday that Donald Trump’s statements pointed to a “dangerous” figure emerging on the world stage if he won the US presidency. At a press conference in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said he was “not keen or
KOTA SAMARAHAN. Oct 12 – The Petra Jaya Hospital project in Kuching is 36% off schedule, according to Sarawak Health director Dr Jamilah Hashim. She said the project which was originally scheduled for completion next month was only expected to be ready by June next year. Dr Jamilah told this to reporters
Google today announced that it will continue its Android Beta program with Android Nougat 7.1, the next minor update to the latest version of its mobile operating system. The company already showed off some of 7.1’s features when it announced its Pixel phones last week, but some of the Pixels’ best features, including
JAKARTA, Oct 12 – An Indonesian woman accused of murdering her college friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee broke down in tears Wednesday as she took the stand to deny carrying out the crime. Prosecutors are demanding that Jessica Kumala Wongso, an Australian permanent resident, be jailed for 20 years for
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 12 – There was no interference by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in relation to Federal Court decision to uphold Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction and five-year jail sentence for sodomising his former aide, the Federal Court was told today. The Attorney-General Chambers Trials and Appellate Division head Datuk
Facebook officially entered the enterprise market this week with the release of Workplace by Facebook (previously known as Facebook at Work). It goes without saying that Facebook has had tremendous success as a consumer tool, but the enterprise is a different place, with distinct requirements. While it picked up 1,000 beta customers
BEIJING, Oct 12 – The little girl who survived a building collapse in China in her dead father’s arms is a “left-behind” child who had just arrived for a reunion with her migrant worker parents, state media reported Wednesday. China has hundreds of millions of migrants who have moved from the countryside
SIBU, Oct 12 – Parti Bumi Kenyalang (PBK) today stated there was no possibility yet of it cooperating with Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) in the coming 14th general election (GE14). Lanang PBK division secretary, Frankie Anong said in principle, the struggles of the two political parties were different. “We are championing
Apple has unveiled its own official measurements for iOS 10 adoption, which comes in at 54 percent. That means the majority of iOS device owners are running the new mobile operating system. What’s interesting, however, is how different Apple’s official figures are from the third-party estimates released earlier this week, which saw much higher
THE HAGUE, Oct 11 – Dutch authorities have suspended plans to sue the US makers of Pokemon Go, after the company deleted its virtual pets from a protected beach in The Hague, a municipality spokesman said on Tuesday. The so-called Pokestops and Pokegyms, which attract Pokemon and allows players to buy accessories
SHAH ALAM, Oct 11 – Police today denied that the Red Shirt member who had kicked Bersih 5.0 convoy participant Yusaini Kassim in Sabak Bernam over the weekend was a police officer. Yusaini had lodged a police report on Saturday claiming that members belonging to the Red Shirt movement had assaulted him
If I’m Samsung, I’m looking for the next big product to capture the public’s attention while my public relations wing is attempting to put out a whole lot of proverbial fires (to go along with the literal variety). This isn’t that. In fact, Samsung just kind of let this one loose into
MANILA, Oct 11 – The Zika virus is set to spread through Asia, the World Health Organization warned Monday, with hundreds of cases reported in Singapore and two Thai babies diagnosed with Zika-linked microcephaly. The mosquito-borne virus has been detected in 70 countries worldwide including at least 19 countries in the Asia
KUANTAN, Oct 11 – The water at the Semantan raw water plant in Temerloh, which is transferred to the Langat and Cheras water treatment plants (LRA) in Selangor, is free from any odour contamination from Saturday until today. Pahang Department of Environment (DOE) director Rosli Zul said the reading was zero based
Following Yahoo’s September announcement of a data breach affecting 500 million user accounts, the company has made it more difficult for Yahoo Mail users to transition to another email service. At the beginning of October, Yahoo disabled an email forwarding feature, which would allow users to automatically redirect incoming emails sent to their
WILKES-BARRE, Oct 11 – Lewd remarks about groping women? It’s locker-room banter. Accusing former US president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse? He had to. Left for dust in the polls? Pollsters lie. Donald Trump’s supporters appear oblivious to the gravity of his latest scandals and hemorrhaging support among lawmakers from his Republican
