It looks like Sony will follow Nintendo’s cue and focus on mobile gaming. The company announced today that it will form a new business unit that is tasked with bringing PlayStation titles and IP to iOS and Android devices. That sounds like great news for gamers, but there’s a caveat here, it seems. Forward
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Governor, Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, says she will pursue administrative action against 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) during her remaining 38 days in the bank. She said BNM would like to see the rules and regulations complied with not only by 1MDB
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – A total of 3,522 of the 3,937 children who were reported missing in the country from 2014 to January 2016 have been found, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Home Minister Masir Kujat said 90 per cent of the 2,015 cases which were reported in
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – The Australian government has confirmed that the debris recovered from Mozambique is highly likely to have originated from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Australia’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester said in a statement that the Malaysian Investigation Team for MH370 had found that both pieces of
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan has disclosed that he has two Sales and Purchase Agreement (S&P) documents relating to the land allocated for a hardcore poor housing project (PPRT) in Taman Manggis in Penang. He claimed the two
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaludin yesterday again stressed that he was fully responsible over the controversy of his officer who was involved in embezzling more RM107 million in public funds. Khairy said he took full responsibility to correct all weaknesses in the financial procedures of his
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – Two DAP members of Parliament, Lim Guan Eng (DAP-Bagan) and Teo Kok Seong (DAP-Rasah) were ordered out of the Dewan Rakyat sitting Wednesday night for violating Standing Orders. Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Ismail Mohamed Said ordered both of them out of the dewan under Standing Order
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 – The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had received eight complaints from numerous quarters on the purchase of a bungalow by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. MACC Investigation Director Datuk Azam Baki said MACC had called several witnesses and collected related documents to enable a comprehensive investigation to
BELGIAN, March 23 – Belgian police have identified a prime suspect in Tuesday’s Brussels blasts and two suspected suicide bombers, linking them directly to Islamic State militants behind last November’s Paris attacks, Belgian media reported on Wednesday. Najim Laachraoui, 25, is believed to be the man seen on CCTV pushing a
GEORGE TOWN, March 23 – Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said he sees no reason to go on leave pending an investigation by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission into the controversial RM2.8mil bungalow purchase when the allegations against him were likely part of a political conspiracy. He also said that
TOKYO, March 23 – Fujitsu today announced that it has expanded the FUJITSU Network 1FINITY platform, its next-generation optical transmission system that uses a disaggregated architecture(1), to the four functionalities needed when building an optical transmission network, namely, transport, lambda, switch, and access. Each of these is offered as an
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 – 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) has completed the asset monetisation of its energy arm, Edra Global Energy Bhd, with the exchange of shares for cash with a related party, the company said today. November last year, a share sale and purchase agreement (SSPA) was executed between 1MDB,
KANGAR, March 23 – The government is considering cloud seeding to counter the current hot and dry spell. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Shahidan Kassim said the process would be carried out based on need and conducive weather conditions to trigger cumulonimbus clouds. “The state governments also
BRUSSELS, March 23 – The so-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed the responsibility for the Tuesday’s terror attacks in the Belgian capital of Brussels, which killed at least 34 people and also injured more than 100 people, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. A statement published by the A’maq news agency,
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 – Former deputy minister of Transport Rahmah Osman died of old age at the KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital here, Tuesdaynight. She was 76. Her eldest daughter Rahatulkhairani Mustapha said her mother died at 10.15 pm and her remains would be buried at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail Cemetary
GEORGE TOWN, March 23 – Penang Gerakan yesterday have proposed that the price of RM276 per square foot for a bungalow which bought by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng be made the yardstick for all affordable homes in the state of Penang. The proposal was made by state Gerakan Youth Public
Apple announced on Monday the launch of CareKit, a new developer tool that will make it easier to build healthcare apps for iOS devices. The open-source platform will be available in April and should work similarly to ResearchKit, but will focus on patient care. With help from top medical institutions including UCSF, Johns
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 – The Exit 701 at the PGA Interchange, Cheras-Kajang Highway would be partially closed for a week from Friday (March 25) to March 31, to facilitate painting works. MMC-Gamuda KVMRT (PDP) Sdn Bhd in a statement yesterday said the closure would be from 10pm to 5am and will
Apple’s Greg Joswiak revealed at the company’s “Let us loop you in” event in Cupertino that iOS 9.3 would be available for download beginning yesterday. Joswiak called the free update “one of the biggest ‘dot’ releases yet.” With iOS 9.3, users can now enable Night Shift mode to make their iOS device’s
PUTRAJAYA, March 23 – A piece of debris, possibily from the ‘Inlet Cowling’ of an aircraft engine was discovered along the southern coast of South Africa, near the town of Mosselbay yesterday. Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said further examination and analysis were required to verify if the debris
