The death toll from the Mountain B pub fire in Chon Buri rose to 20 on Friday, when a 50-year-old man with critical burns died at Chon Buri Hospital after 14 days of treatment.Continue Reading
Ms Poh Li San is also a Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC.Continue Reading
TOKYO – As China scrambles to stimulate growth, it’s comforting to see Chinese Premier Li Keqiang internalizing – apparently – the works of Milton Friedman. How so? By recalling the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s edict that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. This week, Li called on local officials in six key provinces to […]
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SINGAPORE: Activist Gilbert Goh Keow Wah was on Friday (Aug 19) fined S$3,200 for protesting outside the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) building without a permit and refusing to sign a police statement. He was convicted of the offences on Jul 26 this year after claiming trial for the twoContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) and Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in driving innovative solutions towards decarbonisation in support of Malaysia’s aspirations to be a carbon-neutral nation by 2050. Read full storyContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: This year’s Federal development expenditure (DE) performance until Aug 15 recorded an increase to 50.35% compared to 26.4% on April 15, says Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Read full storyContinue Reading
After a 22-month hiatus, K-pop girl group Blackpink returned to the music scene on Friday with new song ‘Pink Venom’. Read full storyContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia ended the week broadly lower, driven by persistent profit-taking, mostly seen in telecommunications and healthcare companies, amid cautious sentiments in the regional markets, dealers said. Read full storyContinue Reading
DIVERSE BUSINESS EMPIRE After attending university in the late 1980s, Xiao began selling computers and in the decades that followed built an empire with diverse interests including banking and insurance. According to the Hurun Report, which ranks China’s wealthiest people, Xiao was worth almost US$6 billion in 2017. Local mediaContinue Reading
PETALING JAYA: Bukit Aman operations against human traffickers offering fake jobs overseas have led to the arrest of six suspects. Read full storyContinue Reading