OSLO, Oct 6 – Nuclear disarmament group ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. More than 70 years since atomic bombs were used on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
PASIR MAS, Oct 6 – Fifty former PAS members from Tendong state constituency today submitted their application forms to join Umno, claiming that PAS had gone haywire and drifted away from its original cause, especially after the death of its longest-serving spiritual leader, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. The group’s
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 – The High Court today fixed Nov 20 to hear the Malaysian Government’s application to strike out the suit by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for his acquittal and release from prison on his sodomy conviction. Senior federal counsel Nadia Hanim Mohd Tajuddin, representing the government, told reporters that
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 – Malaysia will go through a monsoon transition period from tomorrow until November. The Malaysian Meteorological Department said this normally leads to localised heavy rain and thunderstorms in a short period of time with frequent strong winds especially in the afternoon until early night. According to a statement
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 – Come Nov 14, there will not be a dry eye when Malaysian-born female Giant Panda cub, Nuan Nuan heads back to China for good. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the 82kg cub would be sent directly to the Dujiangyan
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 – Malaysia’s two biggest pension funds, which manage a combined US$203 billion, plan to pursue talks to buy stakes in foreign-owned insurers in the country as the government enforces caps on overseas ownership, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 – Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will visiting Kuala Lumpur, Sarawak, Perak and Penang on their first official trip to Malaysia next month as part of his Southeast Asia tour to celebrate the UK’s longstanding ties and partnership with Commonwealth countries. British High Commissioner to
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 – Malaysia has edged up seven places to rank 65 among 159 countries in 2015, according to the recently-published Economic Freedom of The World Report 2017 (EFW), compared to 72nd placing in 2014. The report, which ranks countries upon the consistency of their institutions and policies in
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 – Bersih 2.0 chairman Maria Chin Abdullah today maintained her not-guilty plea after she was again charged in the Magistrate’s Court, here, with participating in the #KitaLawan street protest, two years ago. Maria, 61, and two others, Bayan Baru Member of Parliament Sim Tze Tzin, 41, and Bersih
MANILA, Oct 3 – Trillium Inc, a leading automotive cyber security solutions provider, has received the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Asia 2017 award acknowledging the potential of its CSAAS (Cyber Security as a Service) business model and advanced SecureIoT cyber security suite. The Top 100 Asia award, presented at
GEORGE TOWN, Oct 3 – DAP secretary-general, Lim Guan Eng said they are preparing documents in relation to the directive of the Registrar of Societies (RoS) that the party conduct a re-election of the Central Executive Committee (CEC). “It is only appropriate that I address this issue at a press conference in
LAS VEGAS, Oct 3 – Investigators worked feverishly Tuesday to find out why a retired accountant gunned down at least 59 people and wounded over 500 others at an open-air concert in Las Vegas, raking the crowd with bullets from a 32nd-floor hotel room packed with weapons. As America grappled with
TOKYO, Oct 3 – Sato Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., and Seren Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that Sato Pharma and Eisai will co-promote a new triazole class oral antifungal agent (development code: BFE1224, “the agent”) containing the active ingredient fosravuconazole L-lysine ethanolate (“fosravuconazole”) in Japan, based on an agreement
ALOR STAR, Oct 3 – Kedah Umno is studying the list of its potential Wanita candidates received to be forwarded to and considered by the party’s top leadership for fielding in the coming 14th general election. Its chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah said it was not wrong to field a
AMSTERDAM, Oct 3 – Gemalto, a world leader in digital security and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can enhance the security of their cloud workloads and reduce the complexity of managing multiple heterogeneous security solutions with an integrated SafeNet Encryption and Key
TOKYO, Oct 3 – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) today announced the development of active-learning dialogue-data based AI technology to enable EMIEW3, Hitachi’s human symbiotic service robot to spontaneously “learn” how to respond to questions that it could not previously answer. EMIEW3 clarifies the meaning of enquiries with related staff through
LAS VEGAS, Oct 3 – The death toll from the deadliest mass shooting in US history rose to 58 on Monday as officials reacted cautiously to an Islamic State claim of responsibility for the massacre at a concert on the Las Vegas Strip. Police said Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, a wealthy former
KEPALA BATAS, Oct 3 – The Penang police have uncovered 19 drug labs and opened 2,692 investigation papers on drug trafficking crimes in the state in 2015 and 2016. Acting Penang Police chief Datuk Roslee Chik said throughout the two years, the police had also seized various types of drugs weighing over
JOHOR BARU, Oct 2 – Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said water consumption in the state was expected to increase by 80% over the next 11 years. He said based on the Johor Water Resource Study 2010-2060, it was revealed that the demand for water is set to
LAS VEGAS, Oct 2 – At least two people were killed and 24 were hospitalised after a shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, a local hospital spokeswoman said, and police said one suspect was down. The spokeswoman for the University Medical Center hospital said 14 of the wounded were
