ASNB, Jewel Digital Ventures launch virtual hackathon

Co-organised with 1337 VenturesTo motivate innovation, fintech application development Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB), the wholly-owned model trust management business enterprise of Permodalan Lokal Berhad (PNB), in addition to Jewel Digital Ventures Sdn. Bhd. (JDV), the wholly-owned additional of PNB to be able to spearhead its internet business strategy, designed a…Continue Reading

Multi-agency special committee to be set up to bring job scam victims back to Malaysia: Minister

PUTRAJAYA: A multi-agency special committee led by Malaysia’s foreign ministry will be formed to ensure Malaysians who have fallen victim to job scam syndicates and are stranded in other countries are brought home safely. Mr Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for Special Functions, said the decision to establish the specialContinue Reading

The resistant roots of Japan’s digital dysfunction

A city clerk in western prefecture of Yamaguchi carries a floppy disk containing account information for 463 residents to a local bank. He has every intention of transferring payments to the residents. But somewhere between the clerk’s instructions and the bank’s processing of the transaction, there is a miscommunication. Instead of 463 residents receiving their […]

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Putin calls up reserves for a bloody Ukrainian winter

SEOUL – Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking in a special televised address to his nation today (September 21), said that military reserves are to be called up to join the war in Ukraine. The call-up takes effect today. In the wake of major Ukrainian battlefield successes in the northeast of the country, Putin – who […]

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