The House of Representatives upon Wednesday resolved in order to withdraw the Cannabis and Hemp Expenses from its agenda simply by 198 votes in order to 136, with twelve abstentions, pending revision of its content which usually lawmakers viewed as loose and potentially exposing youth to health risks.Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN’s sectoral bodies must continue to work together to speed up the completion of the remaining initiatives under the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF), given the rising uncertainties in the current global economic environment. Read full storyContinue Reading
Tucker Carlson of Fox News said India produced no architectural marvels after the British left.Continue Reading
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan for a state visit on Wednesday (Sep 14), Chinese state media reported. It is Xi’s first trip to a foreign nation since China all but shut its borders due to COVID-19. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s office showed him greeting Xi at theContinue Reading
Paetongtarn Shinawatra needs her mother’s approval before standing as the Pheu Thai Party’s candidate for prime minister at the coming general election, her father says.Continue Reading
Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, which was granted interim authorisation by Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority for use as a booster shot, targets both the original strain and Omicron BA.1 variant of the coronavirus.Continue Reading
TAIPEI: Taiwan is looking at Ukraine’s ways of communicating its message to the outside world at a time of conflict, by making use of tools such as satellites and deploying humour, the digital minister said on Wednesday (Sep 14). China’s war games and blockade drills around Taiwan last month, followingContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A baker was infatuated with a colleague at his company and became upset when he heard that she was getting married. He pointed a knife at her neck, wanting to compel the woman into engaging in intimate acts with him. Malaysian Lim Chee Wee, 37, was sentenced to aContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Maxis Bhd’s 5G Alliance partners have expanded to 23 members with the addition of seven new partners namely Gamuda Land, Garuda Robotics, ITXOTIC, LinkUp Smart Solutions, NOKIA, NVIDIA and ZTE. Read full storyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Apple customers are advised to update their devices to the newest versions immediately after hackers were found positively exploiting a “critical vulnerability”, the Singapore Computer Emergency Reaction Team (SingCERT) said in an updated observe on Wednesday (Sep 14). Apple has released security patches to fix a “zero-day essential vulnerability”Continue Reading