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
TOKYO, March 22 – Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Network Solutions Limited today announced that they have developed a guide service system for Ueno Zoological Gardens and Hama-rikyu Gardens, to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. With the system’s smart device app, called Tokyo Parks Navi, users can access a walking guide to
Apple just announced the successor to the iPad Air 2 during its press conference in Cupertino. This isn’t a new iPad Air, it’s a smaller iPad Pro. And the company is calling it iPad Pro. Tim Cook said they believe that iPad is the perfect expression of the future of computing. Tim Cook said this
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today expressed disappointment over the misappropriation of the funds in the Youth and Sports Ministry over several years without being traced, causing the government to lose over RM100 million. The Prime Minister expressed grave concern over the case involving a
TOKYO, March 22 – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), together with J-Power Systems Corporation (JPS, 100% subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.) and LTL Projects (Pvt.) Ltd. (LTL) of Sri Lanka, has been awarded a contract by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) for the installation of underground transmission and distribution cables in
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 – Former opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday withdrew his defamation suit against Senator Datuk S. Nallakaruppan. Anwar had sued Nallakaruppan over the latter’s claim that he had received RM60 million from Magnum Corporation Bhd. Anwar when reading out his statement (to withdraw the suit)
KAWASAKI, March 22 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu R&D Center Co., Ltd. today announced that, to connect multiple datacenters scattered within a metropolitan area with high capacity and at low cost, they have developed a basic architecture for digital-signal processing in optical transceivers transmitting data at 400 gigabits per second
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 – The Malaysian Insider (TMI) news portal was shut down by its own management, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak. He said the cessation of operations of the news portal was a commercial decision by the TMI management and not because of
