PETALING JAYA: The deafening silence by Perikatan Nasional on Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s reported racist narrative implies that the coalition agrees with it, says Datuk Ramanan Ramakrishnan. The Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra) special committee chairman said there was a lack of action from the coalition when Dr Mahathir referred …

LONDON: YouTube has launched a verification system for UK-based doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals to help Britons dodge medical misinformation online. UK-based users accounted for more than two billion video views of clips on health conditions in 2021. YouTube added a new seal of approval to accounts run …

PUTRAJAYA: Housing Development Account’s (HDA) weaknesses in monitoring and management procedures are among factors identified as contributing to problematic housing projects. Deputy Local Government Development Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir said HDA is under the Housing Development Act (Act 118), where the law requires licensed housing developers to open and …

PARIS (Reuters) -The United Nations food agency’s world price index fell in August to a new two-year low, reversing a rebound seen the previous month, as a decline in most food commodities offset increases for rice and sugar. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which tracks the most …

KOTA KINABALU: Efforts are in the pipeline to ascertain the Bornean pygmy elephant and orang utan populations in Sabah. This follows the signing of two research agreements involving several organisations on Wednesday (Sept 6). The elephant research agreement was signed by Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s (UMS) Institute for Tropical Biology and …

KUALA LUMPUR: Following continued criticism over Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s court decision, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has reiterated that he does not have the power to interfere in the case. “If I had the power, I would have delayed the decision after all the by-elections were done,” said …

KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile slammed into a police building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, killing a policeman and injuring many more people, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. The police administrative building was destroyed and rescue workers pulled several people out of the rubble after …

MOST Asian currencies were set to log multi-week lows, even as some gained on Friday on account of robust economic data from the United States and continued uncertainty in China, while equities across the region declined. The Indonesian rupiah was set for its worst week since July 7, while Thailand’s …

AS visitors step into Rumah Tangsi, Kuala Lumpur, they will enter a nostalgic setting, a scene that will remind them of a lively “kampung”. This is Kampung Buatan Malaysia, an event by ZUS Coffee, a local coffee chain that is known for its innovation. The air will be filled with …

The US government’s top consumer watchdog, which is in the process of writing rules around the sharing of consumer financial data, warned tech giants about being overly restrictive in access to payments apps, taking a shot at Apple Inc’s proprietary tap-to-pay technology. Because Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google Pay dominate …