MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – The teenager who arrived at Jose de Jesus Lopez’s drug rehab clinic in the industrial Mexican city of Monterrey in December had unusual symptoms. The 17-year-old’s family had taken the boy to hospital a few days earlier when he’d had trouble breathing and then passed out …

(Reuters) – Sam Costelow returns at flyhalf for Wales after injury in the only change to their team from their last Six Nations outing for their clash against Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. Costelow missed the narrow 16-14 loss to England in their previous game two weeks ago with a …

ALOR SETAR: A Myanmar man holding a United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR) card was arrested with 32 other Myanmar nationals during raids at two locations in Sungai Petani on Tuesday. Kedah Immigration director Mohd Ridzzuan Mohd Zain said they also arrested the man’s wife, 55, in the operation …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges starts Tuesday, giving a New York jury the chance to determine whether Washington’s onetime key anti-drug ally actually ran the Central American country as a “narco-state.” Hernandez was close to Washington during his 2014-2022 …

PETALING JAYA: The Federal Court’s rule of throwing out leave by two groups’ appeal to declare vernacular schools unconstitutional is the final victory for such schools, says Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong. The MCA president said the Apex Court’s decision ended the entire case. “The issue challenging the existence …

KUALA LUMPUR: KPJ Healthcare Bhd aims to exit the Australian healthcare market within two years, according to its president and managing director Chin Keat Chyuan. Currently, he said that the company operates the retirement village business in that market after selling its aged-care operations in December 2023. “We have not …

Two years of wrenching tech layoffs have weighed down the Bay Area’s job market in a big way – but experts say the impact has been somewhat mitigated by an industry realignment that’s led to significant hiring even as thousands of positions have been cut. For decades, Silicon Valley has …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has not watched a video statement by Yulia Navalnaya in which she vowed to continue Alexei Navalny’s work, but her assertion he was poisoned with a nerve agent is unfounded, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Navalnaya said in the video issued on Monday …

PETALING JAYA: Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (KLK) expects its plantation segment to remain the backbone of the group’s financial results, going forward. With the anticipated recovery of the manufacturing segment, KLK said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia that it is cautiously optimistic about its financial prospects for the current …

KUALA LUMPUR: Perbadanan Nasional Bhd (Pernas) aims to produce 5,000 franchise entrepreneurs by 2025 involving more than 90% of micro, small and medium Enterprises. Deputy Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Minister Datuk R. Ramanan (pic) said that the target also involved a total of RM1.47bil in shareholders’ funds. “Pernas has been …