PETALING JAYA: Experts have called for a new search on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 following new leads on the flight. Aerospace expert Jean-Luc Marchand and pilot Patrick Blelly called for a new search based on revelations about the fate of the flight. The duo claimed that the mystery …

PETALING JAYA: An “Anti-Ali Baba” law is currently being considered to take action against Malaysians who illegally rent out licenses to foreign workers without meeting certain conditions, says Rafizi Ramli. The Economy Minister said the proposed “Anti-Ali Baba” law would be among the measures the Economy Ministry was taking to …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), trying to recover from a sexual harassment scandal, suffered a fresh setback when the sports ministry suspended it and sacked a new slate of officers it elected. The ministry took the actions on Sunday after the federation elected a president …

SINGAPORE: This has been a year of reckoning for the movers and shakers in the cryptocurrency sector, from fugitive Do Kwon to disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and, more recently, Binance’s former chief Zhao Changpeng. Among the biggest names in the digital assets market, they will have to face the …

KUCHING: Sarawak will produce green hydrogen on a large scale mainly for the Japanese market under a tripartite agreement inked between Sarawak Economic Development Corp (SEDC) and two Japanese firms. The tripartite agreement, which involved SEDC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SEDC Energy Sdn Bhd, Japan’s oil firm Eneos and trading house Sumitomo …

NEW YORK: OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above US$100bil, people with knowledge of the matter say, a deal that would cement the ChatGPT maker as one of the world’s most valuable startups. Investors potentially involved in the fundraising …

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia named an unchanged XI for the Boxing Day test against Pakistan, but the touring side replaced veteran stumper Sarfaraz Ahmed with Mohammad Rizwan for the second match of the three-test series. Scott Boland missed out in his home ground as Australia retained the pace trio of …

LONDON: British companies are being targeted with a sharp rise in winding-up petitions as the country’s tax authority chases unpaid debts. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) applied to shut down 2,391 businesses in the year to Dec 7 over unpaid tax debts, more than triple the attempts in the previous …

OTTAWA: The Canadian government is backing up to C$2bil (US$1.5bil) in new commercial loans for Trans Mountain Corp (TMC), the crown corporation building an over-budget and long-delayed oil pipeline expansion to the Pacific coast. Information posted on Export Development Canada’s website last Friday showed a C$1.75bil to C$2bil loan guarantee …

KUALA LUMPUR: The number of flood victims at relief centres (PPS) in Kelantan, Terengganu, and Pahang continues to increase on Christmas morning, while the flood situation in Negri Sembilan is gradually improving. In KELANTAN, the number of flood victims increased to 1,991 people, involving 561 families, at 9am, from 1,599 …