NewsAFP NewsStreet joints and empires in noodle-crazed Hong Kong
From decades-old holes in the wall to multi-million dollar businesses, Hong Kong's noodle scene is a moneyspinner in a city that runs on quick and affordable comfort food. Lau Fat-cheong is one of the last traditional noodle makers in Hong Kong, preparing them fresh each day for customers at his
NewsReutersVenezuela's new chief prosecutor vows to jail protest leaders
By Hugh Bronstein CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will hunt down and jail leaders of violent protests that have rocked the country since April, its new top prosecutor said on Thursday, a day before a hate crimes law was expected to be approved despite fears that it will be used to crush dissent. The
NewsThe Malay Mail OnlineDr M fails to block forex RCI from starting Monday
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 18 — The Court of Appeal today unanimously rejected Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's application to defer proceedings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM)...
NewsAFP NewsSpain seaside city attacks: What we know
At least 13 people were killed and more than 100 others injured after drivers slammed into pedestrians in two quick-succession, separate attacks on Barcelona's most popular street and in another busy Spanish seaside city. The promenade in the heart of the city centre is one of Barcelona's busiest
NewsAFP NewsActress Charlize Theron dreams of AIDS-free S.Africa
Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Charlize Theron hopes to create an AIDS-free generation in her home country South Africa which has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. The star who is the founder of Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project which supports community-based HIV programmes
NewsReutersSpain hunts driver who killed 13 in Barcelona, says foils bomb plot
By Andrés González and Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain mounted a sweeping anti-terror operation on Friday after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people before fleeing, in what police suspect was one of multiple planned attacks. Islamic State
NewsAFP NewsJoint exercises could send Korea tensions soaring again
After North Korea and the United States traded bellicose threats of nuclear conflagration, all eyes will be on an annual war game in the South next week that could send tensions spiralling back upwards, analysts say. Pyongyang tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) last month that appeared
NewsAFP News13 dead, over 100 hurt in two Spanish seaside city attacks
Drivers ploughed into pedestrians in two quick-succession, separate attacks in Barcelona and another popular Spanish seaside city Thursday and Friday, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100 others. In the first incident which police qualified as a "terrorist attack," the driver of a
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MACC smells a rat in another FIC hotel deal
KOTA KINABALU: Investigators probing into suspect property purchases by Felda Investment Corporation Sdn Bhd (FIC) in recent years may have uncovered more dirt in the company’s dealings. As the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigators sifted through forensic evidence and called in more people
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MACC smells a rat in another FIC hotel deal
KOTA KINABALU: Investigators probing into suspect property purchases by Felda Investment Corporation Sdn Bhd (FIC) in recent years may have uncovered more dirt in the company’s dealings. As the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigators sifted through forensic evidence and called in more people
NewsAFP NewsCalifornians once again want out of US
A group of Californians has submitted yet another initiative to secede from the United States as the country is gripped by one of its worst political crisis in recent history. The new "Calexit" ballot proposal put forward on Thursday by a fringe political group calls for a constitutional convention
NewsReutersLenovo says more confident it can achieve mobile turnaround goal
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd is more confident it can achieve its turnaround goal for its mobile business in the second half of fiscal year 2018, Chairman and Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing told Reuters on Friday. Yang was speaking after the company posted a first-quarter
NewsAFP NewsCommander dismissed after US Navy ship crashed off Japan
The commander of a US Navy ship that collided with a Philippine-flagged cargo ship off Japan, killing seven American seamen, will be relieved of duty and several other sailors face punishment, a senior admiral said Thursday. Among those being disciplined from the crew of the USS Fitzgerald are its commanding
NewsReutersU.S., Japan step up defence cooperation to counter North Korea
By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan will step up their defence cooperation to deal with the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea as tensions in East Asia remain high, officials from the two allies said on Thursday. "For this threat of North Korea, at this meeting
NewsReutersChina's Lenovo sinks to loss on higher costs, sluggish PC market; outlook challenging
By Sijia Jiang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd posted a first-quarter loss on Friday citing higher costs and slower growth in the personal computer market, and said the outlook was challenging due to supply constraints. Lenovo, which lost its position as the
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Several States Have Erected Laws To Protect Confederate Monuments
Clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend sparked a national conversation on the value of preserving or removing statues and monuments honoring the Confederate side of the Civil War.
NewsReutersWisconsin bill giving $3 billion incentives to Foxconn advances
Wisconsin's Republican-controlled state Assembly voted 59-30 on Thursday to approve a bill that paves the way for a $3 billion incentives package for a proposed liquid-crystal display plant by Taiwan's Foxconn. The plan still needs to be approved by the joint finance committee, which has members
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White Supremacists Are Using Genetic Ancestry Tests For A Creepy Purpose
It’s a marketing trope often repeated in viral, feel-good commercials for genetic ancestry tests: If we only knew just how related we all were, even distantly, then prejudice and racism would cease to exist.
NewsReutersAlibaba beats on earnings as e-commerce remains core revenue driver
By Cate Cadell BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba, China's top e-commerce firm, beat analyst estimates with a 56 percent rise in first-quarter revenue, driven by strong online sales. Thursday's results show that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd , one of Asia's most valuable companies, continues to derive
NewsThe Malay Mail OnlineTwo die in 13m Genting car plunge
PETALING JAYA, Aug 18 — A businessman and a female Chinese tourist died in a freak accident after their car plunged 13m from a car park into a garden in Genting Highlands yesterday. The...
NewsAFP NewsLNG tanker makes Arctic passage unaided
A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas has made the passage from Europe to Asia via the Arctic unaided, a maritime course that has become possible due to global warming, energy firm Total said Thursday. It is "the first commercial vessel to travel alone the Northern Sea Route which permits reaching
NewsThe Malay Mail Online‘Fishy’ tsunami sign near Kota Tinggi turns out to be untrue
JOHOR BARU, Aug 18 — It created a stir and raised concerns. Pictures of the local community collecting schools of fish that had washed ashore along Pantai Mansor in Tuan Seh, Tanjung Sedili,...
NewsAFP NewsCIA 'torture psychologists' avoid trial with secret settlement
Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program settled a lawsuit Thursday by detainees alleging they were illegally tortured. The secret settlement in the suit, brought on behalf of two living ex-detainees and one who died of hypothermia after brutal questioning in
NewsReutersU.S. Navy to remove senior leaders of warship after deadly June crash
By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy will relieve the two senior officers and the senior enlisted sailor on a U.S. warship that collided with a Philippine container ship in June off the coast of Japan, the Navy said on Thursday, A separate official report released on Thursday contained
