BANGKOK: Travellers flying out of Thailand will soon be able to chuck their passports in their bags as they clear immigration, as the nation will be implementing facial recognition at six of its airports. The biometric identification system will be rolled out on Nov 1 for domestic passengers and on Dec 1 for international departures, said...
The Birmingham Airport underwent an evacuation due to a suspicious vehicle being discovered on the premises. Learn more about what happened and whether the airport has reopened by reading below. The Birmingham Airport entered partial evacuation mode early Wednesday, October 23, 2024, after encountering suspicious activity, leading some passengers to revise their flights due to changes...
Volkswagen's Scout Motors was revived as a new EV vehicle company. Learn more about its Traveler SUV and Terra pickup truck. Scout Motors’ EVs are here and almost ready to hit the road. Motor enthusiasts have been patiently waiting for the brand’s nameplate to finally arrive. Now that it has, customers got a glimpse at Scout’s...
Why hire performers when you can get the job done yourself? A couple from Jilin, China were recently filmed performing a super impressive, pitch-perfect rendition of Wakin Chau and Chyi Yu’s ‘Tian Xia You Ren Qing’ (天下有情人). The occasion? It was their wedding. The short snippet of the duet left many astonished at how good at singing the bride and groom...
Remember this S$5million luxury apartment which Taiwanese star Ella Chen gave fans a glimpse at during the pandemic? Well, turns out it isn't the only swish digs the S.H.E member owns in the Neihu district. According to Taiwan's Mirror Weekly, the 43-year-old splurged NT$230mil (S$9.45mil) on a high-floor unit in a luxury development in 2022, earning her the title "Queen of Neihu Luxury Residences". The apartment...
It is hard enough to get a decent group shot with friends, let alone animals. But it seems a zoo in Japan has chanced upon the perfect picture of their mob of kangaroos. According to the Hibiki Animal World attraction in Kitakyushi, Fukuoka Prefecture, the kangaroos instinctively found their own places for the shot when called. The...
A Mathematics professor from China’s Tsinghua University has recently gone viral for his super fit physique… and for being a relative of Chinese actress, Yang Mi, 38. A netizen recently posted a clip of the professor giving a lecture, revealing that he is in his 60s, and is known as the school’s “macho professor”. According to them, he is also Yang...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Electric Train Service (ETS) and KTM Komuter operations experienced disruptions last Friday (Oct 25) due to third-party tree-cutting activity, which severed the overhead line, Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd (KTMB) said on Monday (Oct 28). KTMB reported that the incident occurred at 2.45pm, resulting in delays exceeding 120 minutes on the ETS and KTM...
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 872,000 or 10.2% of active Employees Provident Fund (EPF) members have made voluntary contributions amounting to RM9.39bil as of Aug 31 this year. Deputy Finance Minister Lim Hui Ying said members could contribute voluntarily to increase their savings, subject to a maximum amount of RM100,000 per year, effective June 1, 2023. "These...
KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian woman claims to have lost more than RM4mil after being deceived by a Labuan-based foreign currency (forex) investment syndicate. The woman, identified only as Suzy, 53, said that she began investing in the company in 2020, depositing a total of S$1.3mil (RM4.3mil) into two local bank accounts associated with the company. Based in...
