MAUMERE: The death toll after a motorboat carrying hundreds caught fire in eastern Indonesia has risen in order to 17, officials said on Tuesday (Oct 25). The KM Exhibit Cantika 77 erupted into flames from the coast of Timor island in Eastern Nusa Tenggara state on Monday, compelling desperate passengersContinue Reading
MANILA: A 6. 5-magnitude earthquake rocked the northern Philippines late on Tuesday (Oct 25), the US Geological Service said, along with officials warning concerning the potential for damage. “We expect damage here, inch seismologist Charm Villamil told reporters pursuing the quake, which hit around 10. 59pm near the uplandContinue Reading
MANILA: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the northern Philippines late on Tuesday (Oct 25), the US Geological Service said, sending panicked residents out into the streets and causing substantial damage to a hospital. The quake, caused by a movement of the earth’s crust, struck around 10.59pm near the upland town of Dolores.Continue Reading
Almost five years to the day that he inaugurated a “new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics”, General Secretary Xi Jinping returned to the Great Hall of the People to renew his ‘common prosperity’-based agenda of modernization and national rejuvenation. In his report to the 20th National Party Congress, Xi acknowledged the darkening geopolitical clouds on the horizon — the “black swans”, unpredictable dangerous […]Continue Reading
Vietnam currently benefits from China’s Covid-19 lockdowns and the geopolitical tensions between the United States and China — especially in electronics manufacturing. The country flirted with its own “zero-Covid” policy and lockdowns in 2021 but changed course quickly to have two-thirds of its population vaccinated by December 2021. News leaked that Apple would move its iPad […]Continue Reading
Winner of Most Impactful Brick&Mortar Adoption says business needs drive adoption
Danger of irrelevance for companies that fail to deliver world class user experience Alex Tan, Chief Agency Officer of Life Insurance provider, Manulife Insurance Bhd was quick to answer the question about the key mistake brick & mortar companies can avoid…Continue Reading
MANILA: Extreme weather events and rising temperatures could see 13.6 per cent of the Philippines’ economic output lost by 2040, inflicting a heavy toll on the country’s poorest if it does not address climate change, a World Bank report said on Tuesday (Oct 25). The report warned that temperatures inContinue Reading
Najib, who was Pekan MP, is serving 12 years in jail after the Federal Court upheld his conviction and sentence by the High Court in a corruption case involving a former 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) unit, SRC International. The prions department said on Oct 11 that Najib will not beContinue Reading
Sophie Qian will relocate from New York to Singapore later this year.Continue Reading
Among the promises doled out is the offer of a Deputy Prime Minister position, a role which has typically only gone to someone from Peninsular Malaysia.Continue Reading