Thousands of Israelis march to illegal West Bank outpost as tensions mount

JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis, including ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, marched to an evacuated Jewish outpost in the West Bank on Monday (Apr 10) in support of settlements viewed as illegal under international law. As tensions mounted between Israelis and Palestinians, Israelis from across the country travelledContinue Reading

Blinken to visit Vietnam, Japan as Asia tensions flare

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Vietnam later this week in the latest bid to build relations with a growing US partner as tensions flare with China over Taiwan, the State Department said on Monday (Apr 10). Blinken will visit Hanoi on his way to a Group of Seven foreignContinue Reading

DOC2US launches new home-based healthcare services, DOC2HOME

Project to support sustainable community building for SP Setia’s Eco-townships​
DOC2HOME is a modern-day adaptation of a historical practice in medicine – house calls​ DOC2US, Malaysia’s first e-prescriptions and digital health provider, announced yesterday the launch of its new subsidiary, DOC2HOME, a digital health platform that provides personalised home-based healthcare services through…Continue Reading

The anime hit Suzume and Shinkai’s cinema of cataclysm

NEW YORK: Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake stuck Japan. When the tsunami and quake ravaged the Tōhoku region of northern Japan and prompted a nuclear meltdown, Shinkai, a now 50-year-old director and animator of some of the most popular anime features in the world,Continue Reading