BEIJING: Chinese schoolchildren are turning to AI bot ChatGPT to slash their homework time – vaulting the country’s “Great Firewall” to write book reports and bone up on their language skills. With its ability to produce A-grade essays, poems and programming code within seconds, ChatGPT has sparked a global goldContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: In addressing investors’ concerns, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that the proposed capital gains tax on unlisted shares announced during the recent tabling of the budget will only be finalised after engagement with the stakeholders. He said on Wednesday (Mar 8) that Putrajaya wanted to better meetContinue Reading
Pioneer of performance art Amanda Heng and Esther Tay, the first Singapore fashion designer to break into the Japanese retail market, were also inducted this year. Continue Reading
The HSR project, which aimed to reduce travel time between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to about 90 minutes, was discontinued after multiple postponements at Malaysia’s request and an eventual lapsing of an agreement in December 2020. Malaysia paid more than S$102 million in compensation to Singapore for the terminated project.Continue Reading
An update to the myResponder app will widen the alert radius from 400m to a maximum of 1.5km, and let users choose to respond either on foot or vehicle.Continue Reading
Police in northern Thailand have seized 62 million methamphetamine pills in the last five months, according to statistics released this week by Provincial Police Region 5.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums closed mostly higher in the latest bidding exercise on Wednesday (Mar 8). For Category A cars, or those 1,600cc and below with horsepower not exceeding 130bhp, premiums closed at S$88,000, up from S$86,556 in the last exercise. Premiums for larger and more powerful carsContinue Reading
For the past decade or so, the Western media has been critical of the Chinese state, the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party. This criticism has been made in the context of a small number of issues, such as human rights in Xinjiang, political dissent in Hong Kong and Western citizens detained in China. […]Continue Reading
“At present, various departments are communicating and preparing for relevant plans, and the planning of the related itinerary will be explained in a timely manner after the plan is finalised,” it added, without elaborating. Speaking in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said they were “seriously concerned about theContinue Reading
Two young protesters entered the 50th day of a hunger strike for bail rights and judicial reform on Wednesday, but in the run-up to an election and with the government cracking down on dissent, the response to their marathon action has been muted.Continue Reading