JAKARTA (Reuters) – Two unsuccessful candidates in last week’s Indonesian presidential election have urged parliament to look into complaints of irregularities in the run-up to the event. The call comes despite comments by independent observers that there were no signs of systematic fraud in the world’s biggest single-day election, apart …

Long waits at highway charging stations, rapid battery depletion in freezing snow and limits on electric vehicles on car ferries because of safety fears have combined to make the Lunar New Year holiday a frustrating experience for China’s growing number of EV drivers. For Dai Junqi, the 600 kilometer (373 …

TOKYO: MyDigital Corporation has signed an agreement with Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation in the application of big data technology. MyDigital Corporation Chief Executive Officer Fabian Bigar and Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation General Manager Naoki Yamaguchi signed the agreement. The signing ceremony, which was held at the Toshiba Headquarters here, was …

PUTRAJAYA: Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan expects the ringgit to strengthen against the US dollar this year as the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has signalled the end of interest rate hikes after raising the benchmark interest rates 11 times since March 2022 to the current …

LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister David Cameron vowed on Monday to help protect the Falkland Islands as long as they wanted to remain under British control despite attempts by Argentina’s new leader to reopen negotiations on their sovereignty. Argentina has sought to resume talks on the Falklands, over which …

KLANG: The Customs Department has seized 17,000 airsoft pistols which were brought into the country without proper permits. The pistols were worth at least RM4.4mil. According to the Department’s assistant director general (central zone) Norlela Ismail, they initially detected the container at West Port on Feb 14. “We checked the …

Apple wants iPhone users to ditch the old way of drying out their phones. Putting your iPhone in rice has long been a common practice of trying to save one’s iPhone after dropping it in the pool, toilet – or any other body of water. ALSO READ: iPhone taken a …

PETALING JAYA: Star Media Group Bhd (SMG) posted a higher pre-tax profit of RM5.5mil in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23) compared with RM1.7mil in the previous corresponding period. The higher profit was due to the sale of investment property worth RM6.5mil during the quarter. The group’s total revenue in …

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia’s first 3D printed moulded calcaneal bone (heel bone) replacement was performed successfully on a young man by a team of oncologists from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital here. The procedure, using the 3D moulded heel bone, was done on the patient who suffered from a recurrence over a …

A Billings man who admitted to coercing a minor girl in New York to make and send him sexually explicit images of herself was sentenced on Feb 15 to 20 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Jeffrey Eugene Herbert, 35, pleaded guilty in March …