LONDON (Reuters) – Senior bosses at leading French technology firms have warned curbs to immigration proposed by the far-right National Rally party pose a threat to the country’s ambition to become Europe’s leading AI hub. After heavy losses for his Renaissance party at the weekend’s European Parliament election, President Emmanuel …

KUALA LUMPUR: Tourism Malaysia has encountered difficulties in its domestic tourism promotion efforts, with certain states showing a reluctance to share their lists of tourist spots, especially those that need infrastructural development, says Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing. “The Prime Minister asked me about the competitiveness of Malaysian tourism compared …

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan said on Friday it would start trimming its huge bond purchases and announce a detailed plan next month on reducing its nearly $5 trillion balance sheet, taking another step toward unwinding its massive monetary stimulus. While it will continue to buy government bonds at the …

KUALA LUMPUR: The newly introduced Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme has been approved by the Cabinet and requires agents and overseas counterparts to register, says Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing. The Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister said that agents and its overseas counterpart agencies must register with the ministry …

The 17-acre cement slab in the middle of a Borneo industrial area once belonged to a logging company. Long ago that business abandoned the site to the elements, leaving just rudimentary structures and a four-story-tall concrete birdhouse made to lure swiftlets whose nests, built with saliva, fetch high prices in …

DORTMUND, Germany (Reuters) – England face the first test of their credentials as one of the Euro 2024 favourites when they launch their campaign against Serbia on Sunday, with injuries and illness adding to worries about an already depleted defence. Coach Gareth Southgate – under pressure to win the first …

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has fixed July 3 to hear former anti-crime activist R. Sri Sanjeevan’s appeal against the dismissal of a ruling in declaring his 16-day detention under the Prevention of Crime Act (Poca) 1959 as unlawful. Sri Sanjeevan’s counsel S. Preakas confirmed the hearing date following case management …

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE: China’s central bank is widely expected to leave a key policy rate unchanged when rolling over maturing medium-term loans next Monday, a Reuters survey showed. Worsening interest margins and a weakening Chinese yuan continued to hobble authorities’ monetary easing efforts to support the world’s second-largest economy. In a Reuters …

ATHENS (Reuters) – Demonstrators were due to rally in Athens on Friday to mark the anniversary of a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece and demand answers about the causes of the disaster and the fate of relatives. Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt were …

KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) students went ahead with their protest over the state’s water woes despite the absence of a police permit to do so on Friday. The group numbering less than 50 people marched about 5km from the UMS campus to Hajiji’s office at the state administrative …