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Day: 9 February 2023

Visa-on-arrival will boost tourism

IN his keynote address at the 2023 Asean Tourism Forum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Tiong King Sing proposed that Malaysia consider visas-on-arrival (VOAs) for all to remain competitive in the global tourism industry.

Poor maintenance to blame for Ampang LRT damage, says report

SHODDY maintenance, and not construction work taking place nearby, could be the reason for damaged tracks on the Ampang LRT line near the Bandaraya station, The Vibes reported. The report, quoting sources, said initial findings revealed that the damage to the rail track and pier were possibly due to inferior maintenance work.

Turkish leader admits ‘shortcomings’ as quake toll tops 15,000

TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday conceded “shortcomings” after criticism of his government’s response to the massive earthquake that has killed over 15,000 people in Turkey and Syria. The sprawling scale of the disaster that flattened thousands of buildings, trapping an unknown number of people, has swamped relief operations already hampered by freezing weather.

Trial of new Covid treatment yields encouraging results

A SINGLE-INJECTION antiviral treatment for newly-infected Covid-19 patients reduced the risk of hospitalisation by half in a large-scale clinical trial, according to a study published yesterday. Stanford University professor Jeffrey Glenn, coauthor of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), said the new drug “showed profound benefits for vaccinated and unvaccinated […]

2 children killed in ‘deliberate’ bus crash into Quebec daycare

A BUS driver rammed his vehicle into a day care center near Montreal yesterday, killing two four-year-old children in what police believe was a deliberate act. One child died on the scene and another in an ambulance, Canadian authorities said, after several children were trapped under the vehicle when it slammed into the building in […]