PARIS (Reuters) - The French police conducted ID checks on a "massive" scale in 2021, despite not having a doctrine to define their objectives or good practice during such checks, France's public audit office, the Cour des comptes, said in a report on Wednesday. The report detailed for the first time the number of ID checks...
SHAH ALAM: A total of 33 officers and rank-and-file personnel from the Police Volunteer Reserve (PVR) in Selangor were given official insignia to mark their elevated positions under the presence of the top brass. The ceremony, held at the auditorium of the state police headquarters here on Tuesday (Dec 5), was graced by Selangor deputy police...
Taylor Swift (pic) didn’t just enchant Spotify as its top artiste of 2023, but she’s also to track to earn more than US$100mil in royalties from the streaming service this year. The singer, 33, will take home that gorgeous figure after hitting 26.1 billion streams around the world since Jan 1, People confirms. The massive payday only adds to...
Small towns around the world can become “victims” of progress when highways are built. As traffic zooms along the highways and bypass old trunk roads, small towns lose economic opportunities. But when something is lost, something else is gained. The tin-mining towns of Kampar and Gopeng in Perak are testimony to this fate when the North-South Expressway stretch...
Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung has proven that nothing can come in the way of her work, not even a power outage. Cheung was recently in Hangzhou, China, to sell goods on a live stream when a thunderstorm caused a blackout. Instead of ending the session, the 43-year-old remained undeterred and continued to work with the support...
TOKYO: Visitors from around the world have been flocking to a small two-storey building in Sakai city, about a 30-minute train ride from Osaka. According to Nikkei Asia, many of those who turn up at the Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum visit for one thing: its showroom, which features hundreds of chef’s knives made famous by the...
Both parties are being charged with assault in an open investigation. On Sunday (Dec 3), Taiwan-based Malaysian actor Danny Lee shocked everyone when he posted a selfie of his very-badly-whacked face on Instagram. "I'm not trying to gain attention, I just want to let everyone know what caused my face to turn into a pig's head," wrote...
And rightfully so too. His co-stars Lee Jin Wook and Lee Do Hyun also go butt-naked in the latest season of the popular show too. The first season of Netflix series Sweet Home was released in 20202 to huge success. The Korean supernatural-apocalyptic drama, based on a webtoon of the same name, sees a group of residents of an...
The 32-year-old Taiwanese actor, who got drunk before anyone else did at the wedding, is not above making fun of himself. You know a wedding party is truly lit when you see people letting go of themselves. Over the weekend, artist Oscar Wang, the son of Taiwanese actress-director Sylvia Chang, got hitched to Chinese supermodel You Tianyi. The glamorous wedding saw...
JASIN: A married couple, both of whom are directors of a woodcarving company, lost over RM1.6mil after falling prey to an investment scam on Facebook. Jasin OCPD Deputy Supt Ahmad Jamil Radzi said the wife, 38, was contacted by three individuals on three different numbers after expressing interest in an investment scheme on Facebook. "She was then...
