All hands were on deck when an 81-year-old woman went missing Nov 23 in Sumner. Jeanine Knutsen reunited with her family that night, about 12 hours after she was last seen at 15519 62nd St. Court E., at the Stafford Suites on Thanksgiving Day, The News Tribune reported. City spokesperson …

KUALA LUMPUR: The IfitEr (I Fit and Eat Right) Weight Management Programme implemented at 30 ‘wellness hubs’ nationwide has led to 9,031 clients losing weight, says Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni (pic). He added that under the initiative, 4,846 clients had been able to quit smoking. “The Health …

TOKYO: Asia-Pacific equities gained on Wednesday as bets firmed for a peak in interest rates among major central banks globally, pushing down bond yields. Benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yields dipped to their lowest since mid-August at 0.62%, tracking an overnight slide for equivalent U.S. Treasury yields as cooling labour …

LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC has completed what it says is the world’s first trial of a tool designed to protect highly sensitive financial data from cyber criminals seeking to harness the power of next-generation quantum computers to launch future attacks. The British bank said it used the tool to safeguard …

(Reuters) – Christine Sinclair bid an emotional farewell to international soccer on Tuesday with one final match that brought an end to a superlative career in which she catapulted the Canadian national women’s team from obscurity to Olympic champions. The result of the friendly, a 1-0 win over Australia played …

KOTA KINABALU: Relocating security bases from the West to the East coast of Sabah will improve the international community’s confidence that the state is safe to visit, says Parti Warisan. Its Tungku assemblyman Assaffal P Alian said the government should consider this after the United Kingdom recently lifted its travel …

CARACAS/GEORGETOWN (Reuters) -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he would authorize oil exploration in an area subject to a dispute with Guyana, which said it would report his comments to the United Nations and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Maduro’s pledge to permit development around the Esequibo river …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) is seeking to introduce a streamlined transfer mechanism that will enable qualifying ACE Market companies to transfer to the Main Market beginning in 2024, said its chairman, Datuk Seri Dr Awang Adek Hussin. He said SC together with Bursa Malaysia is working to …

US authorities are working to contain a campaign by Iranian hackers against multiple drinking water and sewage systems around the country. “We are aware of active targeting by these actors and exploitation,” Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters in a …

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell says the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been so good to him that he will play in the lucrative T20 competition until he “can’t walk anymore”. The IPL has been the perfect platform to showcase Maxwell’s explosive batting and the 35-year-old is one …