SINGAPORE: Asian stocks crept higher on Tuesday and the dollar lurked near a five-month low as cooling U.S. inflation bolstered bets the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates early next year. Oil prices were mixed after both benchmarks – Brent crude and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude – rose 3% …

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Upko is closely watching efforts by two native-based parties to make a fresh political attempt to unify the ethnic Kadazandusum, Murut, and Rungus communities. Upko president Datuk Ewon Benedick said that the initiatives for cooperation between Sabah STAR and Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) were good for Sabah …

BANGKOK: Thailand will increase its minimum wage in January, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Tuesday confirming a previous deal, while the government plans to further raise it in March. A wage committee, comprised of government, employers and employee representatives, had previously agreed to increase the daily minimum wage by …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Tuesday confirmed his arrival at what he described as a snow-swept prison above the Arctic Circle and said he was in excellent spirits despite a tiring 20-day journey to get there. Navalny posted an update on X via his lawyers …

Samsung Electronics Co. has delayed mass production plans at its new chip plant in Taylor, Texas, the Seoul Economic Daily said, potentially dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s ambition to increase domestic semiconductor supplies. Mass production at the upcoming US$17bil (RM78.7bil) fab would begin in 2025, the newspaper reported, …

THE days of calling your stockbroker to place your share orders or asking your favourite analyst about a particular stock are long gone. While the use of AI technology in investing allows for less, or even zero, human intervention, the human touch remains an important factor. Thus, for now, a …

PUTRAJAYA: The operation approval for the community school, Iskul Sama Dilaut Omadal in Sabah, requires further discussions across ministries and relevant agencies as it is subject to government policy decisions, according to the Education Ministry. In a statement on Tuesday (Dec 26), the ministry said that it also considers the …

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s huge deportation drive has forcibly repatriated scores of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the United States, an advocacy group and Afghan applicants say, adding that Pakistani authorities often ignored U.S. embassy letters of protection. That complicates the efforts of such Afghans, as the U.S. has shuttered its …

For now, humans rely on devices for connectivity, but imagine a future where the human body becomes the conduit for data transfer. Purdue University engineer Shreyas Sen said in a report on the university’s website that his lab is working on an invention that could turn the human body into …

PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa won the toss and put visitors India into bat at the start of the first test on Tuesday after a delay of 30 minutes because of a wet outfield at Centurion near Pretoria. “There is a bit of moisture in and around the wicket and we’d …