SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police launched a raid on Friday targeting officials of the Korean Medical Association, as authorities step up pressure to end a walkout by trainee doctors protesting against plans to reform the health system. The raid comes ahead of a mass demonstration in Seoul planned for …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Council of Datuk Datuk Malaysia (MDDM) has presented suggested amendments to several clauses in the Awards Act 2017 to the Attorney General’s Chambers and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said to strengthen the Act’s enforcement in curbing the …

KUALA LUMPUR: The timber and timber products industry is expected to recover this year following better growth projections of the United States (US) economy, the main destination for Malaysia’s furniture exports. Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said the industry’s performance has declined over the past …

GENEVA (Reuters) – The international community must take “targeted action” to restrict the Myanmar junta’s access to arms, jet fuel and foreign currency to prevent it from committing “atrocities” against its people, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday. “I repeat my call to the international community to refocus …

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry recorded 13 cases of heat-related illness from the 1st to the 9th Epidemiological Week. Health director-general Datuk Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan said of that number, four were heatstroke cases, while another nine were related to heat exhaustion. “All cases resulted from outdoor physical activities during …

A battery startup has raised US$20mil (RM94.80mil) in Series A financing, which it will use to scale its proprietary technology that has the potential to address one of the industry’s biggest issues: fire risk. Lithium-ion batteries power everything from electric vehicles to cellphones. But concerns around battery safety have hindered …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): The Dutch government has spent more than €166mil (RM851.99mil) dealing with the aftermath of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, from repatriating victims’ bodies to investigating and prosecuting some of those involved in the downing, according to an official …

KUALA LUMPUR: Many part-time media practitioners as well as those working on their own do not have social security protection, said Social Security Organisation (Socso) self-employment injury scheme division head Mohamad Haron Othman. He said this, among other things, is due to a lack of awareness about the importance of …

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia finished on a lower note on Friday as the overall market sentiment remained weak. The market bellwether closed at 1,538.02, down 13.42 points, or 0.87%, taking its full-week drop to 0.71%. All sectoral indices closed lower apart from plantation and healthcare. In the broader market, losers …

LANGKAWI (AP): A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday (March 1) in Pulau Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is in hospital and being treated for an infection. King Harald V, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalised after he fell ill during a vacation, the royal palace in …