Air quality in three areas improves from ‘unhealthy’ to ‘moderate’
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 ― Three areas in Sarawak, Penang and Johor recorded improved air quality,…
Reform caucus to hold seminar on Malaysia’s poverty rate
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 ― The parliamentary Caucus on Reform and Governance will hold a seminar…
Indonesia blames 737 MAX design for Lion Air tragedy
INDONESIAN authorities have cited failures in the Boeing 737 MAX design and oversight as contributing to…
Smoke in Ipoh grounds flights to JB, Singapore
TWO of the five flights scheduled at Ipoh’s Sultan Azlan Shah Airport (LTSAS) today were cancelled…
Canada’s Trudeau pledges lower taxes, cellphone costs
This comes as the ‘blackface scandal’ hits him in polls, which is due next month.
Thousands of China tourists cancel holidays in M’sia
Following the haze, the tourists turn their attention to other Asean countries.
Bangladesh bride takes groom home, challenging traditions
The wedding makes headlines in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. DHAKA: A 19-year-old bride has challenged Bangladesh Muslim wedding tradition by taking a groom to her home to marry him, with the ceremony going viral on social media and sparking debate about women’s rights in the conservative nation. In what local media are describing as a first, Khadiza Akter Khushi […]
PTPTN hopes to attract more employers to assist in paying workers’ education loans, says chairman
ALOR GAJAH, Sept 23 ― The National Higher Education Fund Corporation (NHEFC) will redouble effort to…
Indonesia finds design flaw, oversight lapses in Lion Air crash
Lion Air JT610 plunged into the Java Sea less than half an hour after taking off from Jakarta on a routine flight to Pangkal Pinang. (AFP pic) JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators have found that design and oversight lapses played a key role in the October crash of Boeing Co’s 737 MAX jet that killed all 189 […]