GEORGETOWN, Jan 8 – Tropfest South East Asia, the newest addition to the world’s largest short film festival, has today revealed the 16 finalists in the running to take home the Tropfest SEA trophy and a cash prize of US $12,000 on February 1, 2015. With five countries represented in the
SEOUL, Jan 8 – Samsung Electronics Co estimated today that its fourth-quarter operating income dropped 37%. In its earnings preview, Samsung put its October-December operating profit at 5.2 trillion won (RM16.86 billion), which was still higher than analysts’ consensus of 4.9 trillion won according to FactSet, a financial data provider. The preliminary
PARIS, Jan 8 – Police are hunting three French nationals, including two brothers from the Paris region, after suspected Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at a satirical magazine yesterday, a police official and government source said. The hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly known for
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 – More flood evacuees have vacated relief centres in Pahang and Kelantan but in Perak there was no change in the situation Wednesday. The total number of flood victims in the three states at 10pm stood at 23,772 people compared to 26,294 at 6pm, Wednesday. In PAHANG, there was
PARIS, Jan 7 – At least 12 people were killed when gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket-launcher opened fire in the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, said sources close to the investigation. Following the incident, the government raised its alert level to the highest possible in the
PARIS, Jan 7 – At least 11 people were killed and four were seriously wounded in Wednesday’s attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, French President Francois Hollande told reporters. “This is a terrorist attack, there is no doubt about this,” he said. [Latest update at 7:14 a.m. ET] • Journalists
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 7 – Two family members were crushed to death in a tragic accident at the busy Jalan Sungai Pinang and Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway junction here. The car they were travelling in was sandwiched between a truck and an express bus. The accident also involved six vehicles
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 7 – Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the tail of the missing Indonesia AirAsia plane in the Java Sea today, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 11 days after Flight QZ8501 disappeared with 162 people on board, an official said. Powerful currents and
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 7 – AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes has never admitted that AirAsia has no permit to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route, his office said in a statement on Wednesday. “We have the right to fly Surabaya-Singapore. We had flown that schedule and had rights for 7 days a week,” the
NEW YORK, Jan 5 – A U.S. hedge fund founder was found shot to death in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday, and New York police are seeking his son for questioning, authorities said. Thomas Gilbert, 70, founder of the Wainscott Capital Partners Fund, was shot once in the head around 3:30
LONDON, Jan 5 – Eight crew members onboard a cargo ship that sank off the coast of Scotland were presumed dead today, two days after the vessel capsized in stormy weather. An extensive search effort involving aircraft and boats was suspended on Sunday evening and will not be restarted, the Maritime
JAKARTA, Jan 5 – Indonesian navy divers took advantage of calmer waters on Monday to resume efforts to identify suspected wreckage from missing Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501, as ships and aircraft widened their search for debris and bodies from the plane. Three more bodies were recovered on Monday, bringing the
TOKYO, Jan 5 – McDonald’s Japan said it was facing more chicken nugget woes after a customer found a piece of vinyl inside the popular menu item. The company said today, the foreign object was discovered at an outlet in the northern city of Misawa, in a nugget sourced from a
SURABAYA, Jan 5 – The bodies of four more victims were released to their families after they were identified at the Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) centre here. They were Shiane Josal, 45, Tony Linaksita, 42, Lim Yan Koen, 61 and Yongki Jou, 53. Indonesian police medical and
SINGAPORE, Jan 5 – A Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) warship is back in Singapore, eight days after being sent to sea to help search for the AirAsia plane which crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago. The Victory-class missile corvette, RSS Valour, arrived at Tuas Naval Base on Monday
SURABAYA, Jan 5 – Family members of passengers on the ill-fated AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have received an offer to board an Indonesian naval ship to visit the plane’s search location. This is to “to lessen their sorrow and sense of loss”, said Indonesia’s armed forces chief Moeldoko on Monday. They will be
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak who has been making visits to flood-affected areas in the country has been diagnosed with E.coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria, according to a tweet by the Prime Minister’s Office, today. In the message, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said doctors
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 – There was a drop in the number of evacuees at relief centres in Pahang, Perak and Kelantan this morning while in Johor the number remained the same as yesterday. In SABAH, the 50 evacuees are preparing to return to their homes as the flood situation has
KUALA LUMPUR, JAN 5 – AirAsia Indonesia confirmed tonight that its flight QZ7633 from Surabaya to Bandung scheduled for departure at 9 pm (local time) today made a decision to return-to-apron (RTA) due to a technical glitch. In a statement, AirAsia Indonesia said flight QZ7633 using an Airbus A320-200 (registration PK-AZC),
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 – Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) says electricity supply in the whole of Kota Baharu, Kelantan has been fully reinstated as of 8 am today. In a statement here today, the national utility corporation said over 95 per cent of users in Kelantan are already getting electricity, with 1,864 of
