LONDON, Jun 28 – JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co. Ltd, has signed an agreement with Allied Wallet Ltd, the award-winning globally leading payment services provider (PSP) of online payment processing, to facilitate JCB transactions in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Therefore, the
PETALING JAYA, Jun 28 – The new retail price for petrol RON95 and RON97 for the fifth week of June will deccreased by 2 sen per liter while diesel will deccreased by 4 sen per liter which will effective at midnight tonight. The new prices will come into effect on Thursday until July 5. The new price after
LOS ANGELES, Jun 28 – A 46-year-old Uber driver was charged on Tuesday with raping a female passenger at a North Hollywood motel, Southern California, while the 24-year-old woman was unconscious, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. Alaric Spence faces up to 15 years
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 28 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (pix) today reiterated Malaysia’s commitment to stop human trafficking. Malaysia’s collective efforts in combating human trafficking locally and regionally was bearing fruit as the country improved its position in the international Trafficking in Persons Report 2017, Najib wrote on his
BESUT, Jun 28 – Police detained three men after finding several types of drugs in a ‘Mickey Mouse’ figurine in a raid at a house in Kampung Beris Lampu, Kuala Besut, last Monday. Besut district police chief Supt Mohd Zamri Mohd Rowi said the Mickey Mouse figurine was found under a bed
DALIAN, Jun 28 – China is capable of achieving its full-year growth target and controlling systemic risks despite challenges, Premier Li Keqiang said yesterday, adding that maintaining medium to high-speed long-term growth will not be easy. Beijing targets economic growth of around 6.5% in 2017, compared with the 6.7% pace delivered in
BRUSSELS, Jun 28 – The European Union (EU) slapped Google with a record €2.4 billion (RM11.5 billion) anti-trust fine yesterday, in a fresh assault on a US tech giant that risks the wrath of President Donald Trump. Hard-charging European Commission competition chief Margrethe Vestager said Google had “abused its market dominance” as
TOKYO, Jun 28 – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it has provided a facial recognition system to Seoul Sky, an observatory in Lotte World Tower, a 123-floor, 555-meter (1,823 ft.) high skyscraper located in Seoul, South Korea. The system is used to monitor admittance to Seoul Sky, the world’s
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 28 – Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has commended the AirAsia X pilot and cabin crew for their professionalism and courage in handling an emergency situation involving Flight D7237 last Sunday. “I take this incident seriously and I have directed the Department of Civil Aviation director-general and relevant authorities
TOKYO, Jun 27 – China Mobile Communications Corporation and NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that they have jointly developed the world’s first multi-vendor embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) system within their commercial environments based on the GSMA’s Remote Provisioning Architecture for Embedded UICC3.1 (GSMAv3.1) standard. The system enables interoperability between
AMSTERDAM, Jun 27 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, is launching the Gemalto Assurance Hub, a groundbreaking approach to fraud prevention in online banking. Powered by machine learning, it analyses the profile and the behavior of customers in real time. The platform only activates additional
KAWASAKI, Jun 27 – Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announces the development of virtual machine (VM) control technology that improves server rack mounting density for each datacenter rack. Currently, in datacenters, the number of servers mounted to a rack is limited by the total rated electrical power of the servers, which must be
SEOUL, Jun 27 – North Korea likened US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on Tuesday in its latest diatribe amid high tensions over Pyongyang’s military ambitions and ahead of a visit to Washington by the South’s new leader. The latest attack came a week after nuclear-armed Pyongyang called Trump a “lunatic”
HONG KONG, Jun 27 – When Xi Jinping lands in Hong Kong on Thursday for the first time since becoming China’s president, he will step into a deeply divided city uncertain of its future. The visit marks 20 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain and comes at
SEOUL, Jun 27 – Suprema, Inc., a leading global provider of biometrics and ID solutions, today announced that the company will showcase BioMini Slim 2, the World’s slimmest fingerprint authentication scanner at SDW 2017 at London, on JUN 27. As a leading innovator in biometric identity solutions, Suprema will continue
HONG KONG, Jun 26 – About 670 exhibitors from 35 countries and regions will present books on a wide range of topics and in various languages at the 28th edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong Book Fair, which will be held 19-25 July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
PERTH, Jun 26 – The safety of our guests and crew is of utmost importance to us. We are currently conducting an investigation into the cause of the incident together with our engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce. We are also cooperating fully with the local aviation authorities. We would like to stress that
TOKYO, Jun 26 – NTT DOCOMO, INC., will launch a new prepaid SIM service called ‘Japan Welcome SIM’ that will allow foreign travelers to access the Internet through the DOCOMO network during their stay in Japan, starting July 1st, 2017. Travelers can apply for the service online via a dedicated
PARIS, Jun 26 – At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in central Pakistan early Sunday when a fire erupted after crowds rushed to collect fuel from an overturned oil tanker. Here are the most serious such incidents around the world over the past decade. In many of the most
LOS ANGELES, Jun 26 – The American company SpaceX on Sunday successfully placed 10 satellites for the communications company Iridium into orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket. After launching as scheduled from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1.25pm local time, the Falcon 9’s first stage returned less than eight
