Malaysia on Wednesday (Sep 7) scrapped its mask mandate for indoor settings, with business owners allowed to decide whether to impose their own face mask requirements. “Face masks indoors will be optional effective immediately,” said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, adding that masks remain mandatory for COVID-19 cases, and in publicContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak used his personal bank account to issue RM8.4 million (US$1.87 million) in cheques to individuals, political entities and companies between 2011 and 2012, the High Court heard on Wednesday (Sep 7). Among the individual recipients of the cheques were former land and cooperative developmentContinue Reading
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed “positive” ties with Myanmar on Wednesday (Sep 7) as he met with the country’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok. “Myanmar is our long-standing and reliable partner in Southeast Asia … Our relations are developing in a positiveContinue Reading
Edo Kurniawan is suspected to have conspired with others to embezzle funds amounting to up to S$100,000, but left Singapore before investigations started. Continue Reading
TOKYO: Japan further relaxed its infection border controls on Wednesday (Sep 7), but its insistence on visitor visas means the yen’s plunge will not translate to a tourism boom any time soon. The government raised the daily ceiling of inbound travellers to 50,000 from 20,000 and scrapped a requirement forContinue Reading
Particularly heavy monsoon rains have flooded parts of the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru, forcing people there to use any means possible to get to work and go about their day. Read full storyContinue Reading
Signifies next stage in UMWâs digital transformation roadmap
To provide smart manufacturing, big data, fiberisation, 5G UMW IT Services Sdn. Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the UMW Group, signed an agreement with TM One, the enterprise and public sector arm of Telekom Malaysia Bhdd to establish a collaboration on hybrid cloud.
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HANOI: A fire tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam killing 12 people and leaving 11 injured, a local official said on Wednesday (Sep 7). The blaze engulfed the second and third floors of the building on Tuesday night, trapping customers and staff members as dense smoke filled theContinue Reading
SEOUL: The death toll from Typhoon Hinnamnor rose to 10 in South Korea, authorities said on Wednesday (Sep 7), after the storm battered the southern coast with huge waves and heavy rain this week. The typhoon, one of the most powerful to hit the country in decades, flooded streets andContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Wednesday (Aug 7) said he has asked provincial governments to use their budgets to rein in transportation costs and counter the inflationary impact of last week’s fuel price hike. Under pressure to control a ballooning energy subsidy budget, President Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi,Continue Reading