GEORGE TOWN, Sept 29 – Several areas in the state experienced flash floods to about knee-high after three hours of continuous rain early yesterday. Among the affected areas were Jalan P.Ramlee and Jalan Perak on the island, as well as Permatang Rawa in Seberang Perai on the mainland, due to river overflow.
The systems underlying our elections process are more important than ever this year, and the bad guys know it too. FBI director James Comey said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing today that “bad actors have been poking around” voter registration systems lately. “This is very different than the vote system in the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 – National oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Nasional Bhd (Petronas) will look at the conditions that come with the approval of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant project in northern British Columbia by the Canadian government. Petronas president and group CEO Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin
Finally, finally, Twitter has rolled out a version of its storytelling feature called Moments that it should have released at launch. Today, the company says that it’s opening up the Moments platform so anyone can create their own stories using tweets and photos uploaded to the service. We already knew this day
RICHMOND, Sept 29 – The Canadian government has approved a proposed C$36 billion (RM112.6 billion) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in northern British Columbia led by Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas). The green light for the Pacific NorthWest LNG project in northern British Columbia comes after a three-year wait for Petronas and
Apple is planning to consolidate its various London offices into a single campus, come 2021. The Evening Standard broke the news today that Apple’s future home in the U.K. capital will be inside the Battersea Power Station redevelopment zone — a site that has played host to many a press launch in recent years, given the spectacular backdrop
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 28 – A motorcycle spare parts distributor was charged in the Sessions Court here today with eight counts of failing to submit Goods and Services Tax (GST) statements to the Royal Customs Department. The company, Faito Racing Trend Sdn Bhd, represented by its directors, Teoh Chin Ching, 65, and
TOKYO, Sept 28 – Fujitsu today announced that it has set up an environment at the FUJITSU Digital Transformation Center (DTC), a co-creative workshop space for digital transformation in Minato-ku, Tokyo, for testing IoT systems that combine IoT-related products and services from Fujitsu and its partner companies. Starting today, customers
RALEIGH, Sept 28 – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled to break out of deadlocked polls Tuesday after clashing in their first televised debate, lashing each other with insults on the campaign trail in critical states. An exuberant Clinton came out swinging, condemning her Republican rival as “dangerously incoherent” with an energy
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 28 – Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Pahang state government and the Department of Environment to take immediate action to address the pollution of Nyior River in Balok near Kuantan. Its president S.M. Mohamed Idris said the pollution that has persisted for some time now has not only
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 – Malaysian-based Teik Senn (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, or TSM, a leading fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distributor, recently upgraded to the flagship ORION ERP Suite from 3i Infotech. TSM was seeking an upgrade that would support a group-wide consolidation of operations, and was cloud-enabled, which would allow real-time
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 – The National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) is always open for negotiations to all borrowers with difficulties in making repayments and strives to ease their burden. PTPTN, in a statement here today, said the action taken was not to pressure any parties but for the sake of
TOKYO, Sept 28 – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it will progressively introduce and deploy a core system using SAP’s cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, SAP Business ByDesign, to NEC Group companies throughout the world in order to further strengthen global management. NEC New Zealand Limited initiated the
Prior to the public release of iOS 10, Kwikset warned users of its Kevo smart lock that the device would lose some its “touch-to-open” feature due to a bug on Apple’s side. Now, the company has released a statement saying that the issue has been resolved with last week’s iOS 10.0.2 release. The
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 28 – A big scale high tide phenomenon with massive waves and strong winds is expected to hit the west coast of the peninsula from Oct 17 to 20 and from Nov 14 to 17. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim said various strategies and deployment
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 27 – Penangite Jeryl Lee Pei Ling, who has made it to the top six in the Sing! China competition, has arrived Penang yesterday while holding a press conference at 1st Avenue Mall here this morning. Lee, 16, are the latest Malaysian girls making waves in Chinese singing
AMSTERDAM, Sept 27 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has been awarded a major contract by BankAxept, the national payment scheme of Norway, to enable all local banks to interconnect through a single credentials management hub for streamlined and secure management of mobile payments services.
TAIPEI, Sept 27 – Taiwan went into shutdown Tuesday as the island faces its third typhoon in two weeks, with thousands evacuated, schools and offices closed across the island and hundreds of flights disrupted. Typhoon Megi is expected to make landfall in eastern Taiwan later Tuesday but is already bringing widespread violent winds and
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at his company’s massive Ignite conference to lay out his vision for how deep learning and artificial intelligence will transform the company. “AI is at the intersection of our ambitions,” Nadella said, noting how it will allow us “to reason over large amounts of data
MEXICO CITY, Sept 27 – Thousands of people marched on Monday with the parents of 43 missing students in Mexico City, demanding that they be found alive on the second anniversary of their disappearance. The protesters chanted “We want them alive!” as they rallied across the mega-city’s main boulevard, with the parents
