IPOH: Checks will be conducted at the limestone hill near Qing Xin Ling Leisure and Cultural Village where a tourist was killed after a rock fell on his head here. Perak tourism committee chairman Loh Sze Yee said the checks would be conducted by experts from the Land and Mines …

SEOUL: Online disinformation and hate speech are poisoning politics the world over, but in South Korea there have also been real-life acts of violence in a deeply polarised electorate before polls on April 10. Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck in January in a dramatic demonstration of …

LONDON: HSBC is selling its business in Argentina and booking a $1 billion loss on the deal, the bank said on Tuesday, as it continues to shrink its once globe-spanning empire to focus on Asia. HSBC is selling the business, which covers banking, asset management and insurance, to Argentina’s fifth …

PETALING JAYA: Authorities at the Hong Kong International Airport seized 63 live turtles from a passenger arriving on a flight from Malaysia. The turtles, which are suspected to be endangered species, have an estimated market value of almost half a million ringgit or HK$819,000. According to a statement on the …

After adopting five children, a man wanted their biological parents dead and arranged for their killings on the dark web, according to federal court documents. In visiting a website “dedicated to arranging contract killings,” Christopher Pence sought a hitman who could make the New York couple’s deaths look like an …

PETALING JAYA: Seeking forgiveness, or forgiving others, is a most powerful act that has not only healed relationships but saved entire nations, says Projek Sama member Thomas Fann. PROJECT Stability and Accountability for Malaysia (Projek Sama) is one of the civil society organisations participating in the #MZB365 campaign to fight …

SINGAPORE: Industrial metals prices extended their gains on Tuesday with expectations of a worldwide manufacturing rebound, while Asian shares crept up a little more cautiously ahead of this week’s U.S. inflation data and a crucial European Central Bank meeting. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.6%. Japan’s …

Elon Musk said he is “guilty of many self-inflicted wounds” while being questioned in a lawsuit accusing him of promoting a conspiracy theory falsely identifying a California man as a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi street brawler. But the billionaire also said he didn’t think he had “meaningfully harmed” …

For many people, TikTok is a source of entertainment. But for many small and medium-sized businesses in the United States, especially those owned by persons of colour, it’s a financial lifeline. A new study from Oxford Economics found that 57% of Black-owned SMBs (Small Businesses) say their access to TikTok …

KUALA LUMPUR: The RAM-CTOS Business Confidence Index (BCI), which examines forward-looking business sentiment in Malaysia, rose to 53.4 in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q 2024), following two consecutive quarters of decline. The positive score, which is above the neutral level of 50, delineating positive and negative sentiments, was recorded …