WASHINGTON, Sept 29 – Twitter on Thursday revealed that nearly 2,000 ads were placed on the messaging service in 2016 from a Russian media group suspected of trying to interfere with the US presidential election. A Twitter statement said the social media group shared data with congressional investigators about ads from RT,
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 29 – Batu Member of Parliament Tian Chua will serve one month in jail as meted out by a Session Court for disobeying a police order. This followed an unexpected move by the parliamentary member in deciding to withdraw the final appeal against his conviction and sentence. A three-man panel
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 29 – Malaysians consume chicken meat and eggs on a daily basis yet hardly a thought is given to the horrendous conditions in the modern livestock raising systems known as ‘factory-farming’. Malaysia is largely self sufficient in poultry meat production with over 81% of the local domestic demand for
AMSTERDAM, Sept 29 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 – GTO), leader in digital security today announces that after 10 years of dedicated and exemplary service, Jacques Tierny, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Company, has decided to leave on December 31, 2017 to pursue other activities. On October 16, 2017,
BANGKOK, Sept 29 – About 1.8 million tourists from Thailand visited Malaysia in 2016, representing a growth of 32.5 per cent over the corresponding period in 2015, according to Tourism Malaysia Thailand. The trend of strong growth in tourist arrivals from Thailand is expected to continue this year, said its director,
KALYNIVKA, Sept 28 – Ukrainian authorities evacuated more than 30,000 people Wednesday from the central Vinnytsia region after a huge arms depot storing missiles caught fire and exploded in what prosecutors said was a possible act of “sabotage”. It was the second major incident affecting a large Ukrainian weapons storage site this
PORT KLANG, Sept 27 – A Malaysian condom company is hoping to spice up sex lives with a contraceptive that tastes like the country’s ultimate comfort food – a chili-infused rice dish known as nasi lemak. Industry giant Karex, which claims to be the world’s biggest condom maker, already offers an array
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27 – In a rare public feud between large technology companies, Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday its Echo Show devices could no longer play videos from YouTube because the site’s parent, Google, stopped supporting the service. The spat is the latest in Silicon Valley in which competitive tensions
WELLINGTON, Sept 27 – Villagers fleeing a volcanic eruption in Vanuatu face food and water shortages in overcrowded evacuation camps, aid workers and reports said Wednesday. About 7,000 people on the island of Ambae – in the Pacific archipelago’s north – have left their homes after the Manaro Voui volcano rained rocks
MEXICO CITY, Sept 27 – A week after an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, thousands of Mexicans were still unable to return Tuesday to their badly damaged homes, much less their normal lives. After a week of eerie quiet in Mexico City, the capital’s notorious traffic jams were visible again
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 – Public Investment Bank Bhd (PIVB) has reinforced its “overweight” view on the oil and gas (O&G) sector after the overnight benchmark Brent crude oil price closed at US$58.44 per barrel, hitting its highest levels since July 2015. In a note today, the research house said the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 – Lack of fresh catalysts weighed on Bursa Malaysia which turned mixed at mid-morning. At 11.05 am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 1.35 points lower at 1,764.24 from Tuesday’s close of 1,765.59. The index opened 2.03 points better at 1,767.62. Market breadth was positive
MUAR, Sept 27 – The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, today has demanded that the owner of a Muslim-only launderette to apologise publicly and cease its discriminatory practice, or risk being shut down, The Star reported. A photo of the Muar launderette began making its rounds on social media over
BANGKOK, Sept 27 – Thailand’s top court will deliver a verdict Wednesday on whether ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra is guilty of negligence – but the fugitive politician will almost certainly be a no-show, having yet to publicly emerge since she fled the kingdom last month. Yingluck, whose elected government was toppled in
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 – The ringgit continued yesterday’s downtrend to opened lower against the US dollar this morning as the greenback strengthened on the possibility of another interest rate hike before the year-end, dealers said. At 9am, the local unit depreciated to 4.2150/2190 from 4.2050/2080 recorded at 6pm yesterday. The US
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 – DAP veteran leader Lim Kit Siang’s past actions show that DAP is the de facto leader of the opposition, says Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak. With the majority seats that DAP had compared to the others in the opposition pact, Salleh
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27 – Twitter announced Tuesday a test project allowing tweets to be expanded to 280 characters – double the existing limit – in the latest effort to boost flagging growth at the social network. San Francisco-based Twitter said the new limit, a major shift for the messaging platform
Apple today said that it is working on a fix for iPhone 8 users experiencing crackling sounds from their device’s earpiece. Since the iPhone 8 was released last week, some users have reported a “static” and “crackling sound,” but that shouldn’t be the case for much longer… In a statement to
BEIJING, Sept 26 – The Home Ministry is leaving it to the police to act on the organising of the Feel Beer Festival 2017, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. “That comes under police’s powers … I have instructed that it be stopped,” said Ahmad Zahid, who is
LONDON, Sept 26 – The BBC launched a new Korean language radio and online service on Tuesday that will be available to listeners in North Korea if the signal is not blocked. The service, a part of the BBC’s biggest global expansion since the 1940s, will have a dedicated team of journalists
