KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) announced its partnership with RHB Banking Group (RHB) as the exclusive platinum sponsor for the MATTA Fair happening from March 22-24 at MITEC here. As part of this collaboration, RHB will offer enticing card promotions, travel-related deals, exclusive discounts, …

KUALA LUMPUR: S P Setia Bhd recorded total sales of RM5.1bil in the financial year ended Dec 31, 2023 (FY23), outperforming its target of RM4.2bil by 21%. The developer said the higher sales was driven by strong demand for the group’s offerings and land monetisation. Its local projects accounted for …

Restaurant chain Wendy’s said on Feb 28 it will not raise prices for hamburgers and other items at peak times, clarifying recent comments that sparked criticism of the fast-food company. The chain, a smaller rival to McDonald’s known for similar burger-and-fries fare, said comments by its chief executive two weeks …

PUTRAJAYA: A former religious teacher at a school in Selangor escaped the gallows when the Federal Court commuted the death sentence to 33 years jail and 12 strokes of the rotan for killing his girlfriend, nine years ago. A panel of three judges chaired by Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail made …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan’s government is seeking ways to curb the influence of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, prompted by its rulings to free a jailed opposition parliamentarian, according to a senior official and two legislators in the governing alliance. Turkey’s highest court ruled in October that Can Atalay’s ongoing …

NEW YORK: Digital news outlets The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet are joining the fight against unauthorised use of their journalism in artificial intelligence, filing a copyright-infringement lawsuit Wednesday against ChatGPT owner OpenAI. The organisations say thousands of their stories were used by OpenAI to train chatbots to answer questions …

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have pushed back Russian troops from the village of Orlivka, west of Avdiivka, but the situation on the eastern front remains difficult, Ukrainian army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Thursday. Orlivka is less than 2 kilometres northwest of Lastochkyne, which was recently occupied by Russian …

SHAH ALAM: MOST small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Selangor face challenges to comply with Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) practices due to various factors. State investment, trade and mobility committee chairman Ng Sze Han said that these included the lack of disclosure about the importance of ESG, and how …

KUCHING: Petroleum Sarawak Bhd (Petros) will work with PETRONAS and three Japanese consortium parties to develop carbon storage at a depleted oil field off the shore of Sarawak. Petros signed a storage site agreement with PETRONAS subsidiary CCS Ventures Sdn Bhd and the Japanese consortium comprising Japan Petroleum Exploration Co …

OPPDAL, NORWAY (Reuters) – One by one, the crate doors swing open and five Arctic foxes bound off into the snowy landscape. But in the wilds of southern Norway, the newly freed foxes may struggle to find enough to eat, as the impacts of climate change make the foxes’ traditional …