Assisting industry embrace new systems but in a fun, experiential wayOpportunities for those who are bold &  not afraid to experiment, or play Lack of knowledge is indeed bliss. Easily had known just how much effort it would take to plan a fully virtual social networking session, I may not need embarked on…Continue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Heirs of a late Southeast Asian sultan on Thursday (Sep 29) asked a Dutch court for permission to seize Malaysian assets in the Netherlands, their lawyer said, seeking enforcement of a US$15 billion arbitration award granted to them against Malaysia’s government. The petition in The Hague Court ofContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economy is on solid and stable footing despite global economic headwinds caused by geopolitical tensions and other external events. Read full storyContinue Reading
TOKYO – Ebara, the Japanese industrial machinery and plant engineering company, is working on technology to produce environmentally friendly turquoise hydrogen. It is also promoting its method of gasifying and recycling plastic waste. “Turquoise” hydrogen is created using methane pyrolysis, the thermal decomposition of natural gas (mostly methane) into hydrogen and solid carbon that can […]
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SINGAPORE: Two logistics workers who conspired to help smuggle the suspects in the multimillion-dollar Tradenation luxury goods scam out of Singapore in a lorry were sentenced to jail on Thursday (Sep 29). Mohamed Alias, 40, and 38-year-old Mohamad Fazli Abdul Rahman received a year’s jail each. They each pleaded guiltyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A former operations manager of a conservancy company was charged on Thursday (Sep 29) for allegedly collecting kickbacks from migrant workers as a condition for their employment or renewal of their work passes. Ho Chiak Hock Derrick, who was working for Lian Cheng Contracting, is accused of demanding close to S$400,000 fromContinue Reading
The People’s Bank of China participated in the trial from Aug 15 to Sept 23, testing use of digital currencies on four sides of platform. The trial period handled more than 160 cross-border payments and foreign exchange transactions totalling over 150mil yuan (RM96.86mil). Read full storyContinue Reading
US State Department spokesman Ned Price has chided Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as regards the latter’s remarks last Sunday questioning the raison d’être of the US-Pakistan relationship. Yet some national dailies in India have rushed to attribute it to the US displeasure over New Delhi’s stance on the conflict in Ukraine. One daily rather […]
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JAKARTA – Indonesians have been given yet another reminder that corruption remains a drag on the country’s economy with a Supreme Court justice and the gambling-addicted governor of Papua under investigation for allegedly taking bribes and stealing from the public purse. Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perception Index ranks Indonesia 96th out of 180 ranked countries, a […]
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Are you picky about Pocky? To make Pocky sticks and the rest of the company’s offerings healthier, Glico will need the power of AI. Read full storyContinue Reading