KULAI: All contra lanes at the two land checkpoints in Johor will be activated in anticipation of the high volume of vehicles from Singapore during Christmas and New Year. State works, transportation and infrastructure committee chairman Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh said it is hoped that the activation of the contra lanes at both Bangunan Sultan Iskandar...
BEIJING: China on Dec 22 unveiled new draft rules for online video games, imposing strict rules on players' spending as Beijing continues to tighten regulations for the sector. Online games need to set spending limits and ban daily login rewards, according to the draft rules released by the National Press and Publication Administration on Friday. The draft rules...
SHANGHAI: China on Dec 22 announced new plans to restrict the online gaming industry, sending shares in tech giants including Tencent tumbling. New draft restrictions published online by the regulator are aimed at limiting in-game purchases and compulsive playing behaviour. Following the news, Tencent dropped over 10% in Hong Kong, while rival Netease was down more than 20%. Beijing...
GEORGE TOWN: Work to repair a burst underwater pipe in the Prai River here started at 1am on Friday (Dec 22). Divers are carrying out the task of attaching steel plates to the 1.35m-diameter pipe, said Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow. ALSO READ: Penangites told to store water as further repairs on Prai River pipe set for...
PETALING JAYA: A total of 2,164 applications were made for the Malaysia My 2nd Home (MM2H) programme from November 2021 to September 2023, says Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong. He said of that number, 1,905 applications have been approved and 259 rejected. "This is the reply I received on MM2H during the recent Dewan Rakyat sitting...
THE newly appointed Human Resources Minister, Steven Sim Chee Keong and Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Haji Abdul Rahman recently made their first official visit to Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad (TalentCorp), an agency under the Ministry of Human Resources tasked to drive Malaysia’s talent strategy towards becoming a dynamic talent hub. During the two-hour visit, TalentCorp’s group...
NEW YORK: The owner of Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult content websites, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent, federal prosecutors in New York announced Dec 21. Aylo Holdings, the website’s parent company, reached a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a...
KUALA LUMPUR: It is business as usual at the Menara Ilham on Friday after the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) seized the 60-storey building owned by the family of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin. The public and employees of the various companies located in the building were seen entering and exiting the building at the heart...
IPOH: An activist who was injured during an eviction process at a vegetable farm in Kanthan will be charged with obstructing public servants from performing their duties. PSM deputy chairman S. Arutchelvan said Chong Yee Shan, who is also a party central committee member, was notified by police that she would be charged at the Ipoh...
PETALING JAYA: Private credit reporting agency CTOS has detected 335,000 pieces of personal identifiable information on the dark web belonging to over 58,000 Malaysian consumers in the last three years. In a statement released on Dec 21, the company said the data detected include credit card and debit card details, passport information, email addresses and phone numbers. Since...
