KANGAR: Raja of Perlis Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail successfully underwent surgery on his left leg at the Tuanku Fauziah Hospital (HTF) here yesterday. Istana Arau in a statement on Tuesday (May 28) said Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin is in a stable condition and the surgery was successfully completed. “Their Royal Highnesses …

PETALING JAYA: Star Media Group Bhd (SMG) has appointed Tan Sri Wong Foon Meng as its new chairman, together with Tan Sri Johan Jaaffar and Datuk Lim Cheng Ling as new directors of the company. The company said Wong, 69, spent his early career in public service and left for …

ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s upper house of parliament has backed a motion to toughen measures to expel spies, taking particular aim at Russian intelligence agents as Bern prepares to host a major summit aimed at paving the way for peace in Ukraine. Voting 32 in favour and nine against late …

At many companies, there are significant concerns that artificial intelligence will one day take on jobs traditionally done by humans. But at Go Plc, that’s not a fear – it’s the explicit goal. Go, the leading telecom provider in Malta and one of the largest public companies in the country, …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgium have recalled Axel Witsel to the squad for Euro 2024 in Germany next month but there is no place for Thibaut Courtois despite the Real Madrid goalkeeper being in line to feature in Saturday’s Champions League final. Coach Domenico Tedesco announced his 25-man squad for next month’s …

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s semiconductor industry is set to experience a further boom under the National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS), with the nation set to woo at least RM500 billion of investments in the first phase of the plan, announced Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today. While describing the NSS as …

SEOUL (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, where his plane was met by an honorary escort of four fighter jets before he landed for his first state visit to Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. Defence industry cooperation, business and investment, …

KOTA KINABALU: The appointment of peninsula-based electrical contractors for a solar power plant was due to the lack of contractors in the state, says the Energy Commission of Sabah (Ecos). Ecos CEO Datuk Abdul Nasser Abdul Wahid said that there was a lack of local contractors which necessitated the opening …

KUALA LUMPUR: Ekuiti Nasional Bhd’s (Ekuinas) portfolio companies posted a 7.0 per cent year-on-year revenue growth for the financial year 2023 (FY2023) with cumulative committed direct investment reaching RM4.1 billion. The government-linked private equity company said the gross internal rate of return (GIRR) for Tranche II and IV was 11.5 …

TOKYO: A 25-year-old unemployed man from Kawasaki has been arrested for allegedly creating a computer virus by using interactive generative artificial intelligence (AI) available online. This is believed to be the first case in Japan related to the creation of viruses using generative AI systems. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) …