PETALING JAYA: The needs of the nation must come first in the deliberation to open Universiti Teknologi Mara’s (UiTM) cardiothoracic surgery programme to non-bumiputras, said Zaid Ibrahim. In a post on X, the former law minister said there was no tangible reason not to allow non-bumiputra students into UiTM. “There …

A wealthy woman in China has been detained after she slapped and kicked the vehicle of another driver following a minor accident – even threatening to kill the other woman. The accused, surnamed Lin, 38, from Zhejiang province in eastern China, was driving a Porsche on April 12 when she …

MADRID (Reuters) – World number four Daniil Medvedev faces an anxious wait to know the full extent of an injury that forced him out of the Madrid quarter-finals on Thursday, as the Russian joined a group of top players struggling with fitness issues before the French Open. The 28-year-old had …

SINGAPORE: Asian stocks surged to their highest in 15 months on Friday led by tech and Hong Kong stocks, while the yen put more distance from recent 34-year lows to cap a tumultuous week that saw suspected intervention from Japanese authorities. With markets in Japan and mainland China closed on …

WENCHANG: China is set Friday to launch a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, a world first as Beijing pushes ahead with an ambitious programme that aims to send a crewed lunar mission by 2030. A rocket carrying the Chang’e-6 lunar probe is scheduled to …

KUALA LUMPUR: Two call centres linked to an investment scam have been busted with the arrest of eight people, says Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf. The Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director said the suspects, six men and two women, aged between 21 and 43 – were …

GEORGE TOWN: The High Court here has rejected Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng, his wife Betty Chew and businesswoman Phang Li Koon’s bid to strike out corruption charges involving a RM11.6mil foreign workers’ dormitory project. Judicial Commissioner Rofiah Mohamad said she rejected the bid to strike out the …

You open your eyes and grope for your phone. You check your inbox and discover dozens of spam emails that made it past the filter. Tapping over to Instagram, you find a request for a supposed brand collaboration in your DMs. Your WhatsApp notifications, meanwhile, consist solely of strangers asking …

People among the five million fans of an influencer in China have been calling the police because the online personality bears a striking resemblance to a fugitive wanted for murder. Key opinion leader Zhao Shilei, 37, has gained a large number of followers on the mainland short video-sharing app Kuaishou …

SIBU: The 43 Malaysians rescued from a scam syndicate in Peru owe their freedom to the determination of two of their number – and also partly to a smartphone translation application. It was one such app that helped them communicate their plight to a neighbour after the two victims climbed …