KUALA LUMPUR: The water tariff adjustment for domestic categories, which will take effect on Feb 1, needs to be carried out to ensure the sustainability of water services in the long term while simultaneously offering greater satisfaction to the public concerning the quality of treated water supply services. Water and …

LABUAN: After enduring a sugar shortage for over a week, consumers here finally found relief as additional sugar supplies arrived on this duty-free island. The Labuan branch of the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry confirmed that 9,800 kg of sugar were received from wholesalers in Sabah, namely Chung …

KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit ended lower against the US dollar for the third consecutive day in line with other regional currencies after the United States (US) Federal Reserve (Fed) governor Christopher Waller said the Fed is in no hurry to cut rates. Waller acknowledged that the US inflation rate is …

PUTRAJAYA: The online sale of exotic wildlife is now utilising an intermediary concept through the ‘dropshipping’ method, which involves no physical possession of the wildlife by the seller. Instead, they earn a commission on the sale of the respective wildlife, said Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik …

MADRID: Spain’s leftist government said on Jan 16 it was developing age verification technology to prevent minors from viewing pornography online and intended to introduce draft legislation to tackle the problem. The move comes amid a rise in sexual assaults by minors in Spain, including several gang rapes, that has …

DOHA (Reuters) – Australia made the right move to leave the Oceania confederation and join the Asian confederation (AFC) in 2006 as the level of competition in the continent has helped the Socceroos improve as a team, coach Graham Arnold said on Wednesday. Australia had been with the Oceania Football …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political, economic and business leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to look beyond profit and try to heal an “increasingly lacerated” world with moral and ethical decisions. In his message to the world’s movers and shakers meeting at …

MELAKA: A state executive councillor turns into a “cow wrangler” to resolve issues of livestock causing deaths and injuries to motorists in Merlimau here. State rural development, agriculture and food security committee chairman Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh was also locking horns with cattle farmers whose cows were posing a risk …

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Belgium does not oppose the confiscation of 280 billion euros worth of frozen Russian central bank assets, but there needs to be a clear mechanism such as using the assets as collateral for Ukraine, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told Reuters. After President Vladimir Putin sent …

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah health authorities are investigating claims by a man over negligence by the Tawau Hospital. The man had alleged on social media that his wife, who gave birth through caesarean section (C-section) last Dec 31 at the hospital, suffered pain in her abdomen after her stitches had opened …