Yayasan Petronas distributes festive goodies to 50 Labuan families
LABUAN: Around 50 families here had a pleasant surprise when they were given food items and festive hampers by Yayasan Petronas in conjunction with Chinese New Year. Read full story
Umno purge: Tun Faisal latest to be sacked from party
PETALING JAYA: Former Putrajaya Umno deputy chief Datuk Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz says he has been sacked by the party. Read full story
KJ says he will back Umno members who want change
PETALING JAYA: Despite being sacked from Umno last Friday (Jan 27), Khairy Jamaluddin says he will continue supporting “like-minded” party members to push for reform from within. Read full story
Group urges MOE to reintroduce relief teacher positions
THE National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) has requested that the Education Ministry (MOE) reintroduce relief teacher positions to cover the shortage of teachers, including in Sabah and Sarawak. Its secretary-general Fouzi Singon said a study carried out by NUTP showed that the shortage was due to the addition of new schools, the increase in the number of […]
French court orders partial release for convicted Corsican nationalist
A FRENCH court today ordered the partial release of a Corsican nationalist who has served 24 years in jail for the 1998 murder of a top French official. Under the ruling, Pierre Alessandri will be allowed out of jail to work for a landscaping company in the daytime and will be granted a full conditional […]
Over RM5mil set aside for 12,450 graduates in Protege programme
KOTA KINABALU: Over RM5mil has been set aside by the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry to aid 12,450 graduates through their Protégé programme this year. Read full story
UK retail giant Tesco to axe over 2,000 jobs
SUPERMARKET group Tesco, the biggest retailer in Britain, announced today plans to slash about 2,100 jobs, as sky-high inflation hikes costs. Tesco plans to cut about 1,750 management roles. It will also axe around 350 jobs with the closure of some pharmacies, all remaining hot food counters and other restructuring.
AI voice tool ‘misused’ as deepfakes flood web forum
A BRITISH AI firm said it was rethinking its “safeguards” after its audio tool was used to clone celebrity voices and have them say racist and homophobic slurs. Eleven Labs tweeted yesterday that it had been a “crazy weekend” and admitted to finding “an increasing number of voice cloning misuse cases” just days after it […]
RM50,000 donation received to build UTAR Hospital
PETALING JAYA: Donations continue to pour in for the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Hospital in Kampar, Perak with another RM50,000 contributed for the construction of the teaching hospital. Read full story
Floods: Number of evacuees in Johor drops to 1,379 as of 8pm on Jan 31
JOHOR BARU: The number of flood evacuees in Johor has declined from 1,525 victims from 419 families as of 4pm to 1,379 people from 378 families at 8pm on Tuesday (Jan 31). Read full story