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
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 – After serving one year and eight months for sodomy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has almost exhausted his legal remedies in seeking an acquittal. Tomorrow, the Apex Court will hear Anwar’s final legal bid to set aside his sodomy conviction and five-year sentence for sodomising his former aide
This is probably about as close to a full confirmation of last night’s reporting that Samsung has temporarily halting production of the Galaxy Note 7. In another cautiously worded statement issued this morning, the hardware maker told TechCrunch, We are temporarily adjusting the Galaxy Note7 production schedule in order to take further
COLUMBUS, Oct 11 – An invigorated Hillary Clinton commanded a record crowd of more than 10,000 supporters Monday, leaving Donald Trump floundering as America’s top elected Republican all but conceded the White House. The former secretary of state looking to make history as America’s first woman commander-in-chief held an evening rally at
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 11 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak today chaired the Mentri Besar and Chief Ministers’ 127th meeting at Perdana Putra here. Also present at the meeting were cabinet ministers including Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak, and Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr
TAIPEI, Oct 10 – Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday called for a resumption of talks with China and pledged that “anything” can be on the table for discussion. Relations with Beijing have deteriorated under Taiwan’s first female president, whose China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took office in May after a landslide
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 10 – Penang UMNO Youth to hold a second rally, themed “Ride Against Corruption V2.0”, in a continued bid to call for Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng step down from his post or take leave pending his corruption cases in court. The purpose of the “Ride Against Corruption V2.0” rally also
A little over a month after issuing a recall of its high-end handset and at the end of weekend littered with multiple reports of malfunctioning replacement units, Samsung has reportedly suspended production on the Galaxy Note 7. In the wake of announcements by AT&T and T-Mobile that the carriers will halt sales of
