PETALING JAYA: Gregoria Mariska (pic) created history in the Japan Masters by becoming the first women’s singles shuttler from Indonesia to capture a World Tour Super 500 title. World No. 7 Gregoria stunned China’s reigning Olympic champion Chen Yufei 21-12, 21-12 in a surprisingly one-sided final at the Kumamoto Prefectural Gymnasium yesterday. The 24-year-old played brilliantly from...
PETALING JAYA: Former shuttler Goh Liu Ying believes that a tweak in Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah’s training schedules can aid the pair’s push to qualify for the women’s doubles competition in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Pearly-Thinaah had dropped to No. 13 in the world rankings after they were forced to miss several tournaments this year due to...
KUCHING: Gabungan Parti Sarawak's (GPS) Iskandar Turkee was sworn in as Jepak assemblyman at the Sarawak Legislative Assembly on Monday (Nov 20) Iskandar, 54, took his oath in front of Sarawak Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar at the start of the state assembly sitting. The ceremony was witnessed by Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari...
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated libertarian Javier Milei, an outsider with radical views to fix the economy, on being elected president in Argentina on Sunday. "The whole world was watching! I am very proud of you. You will turn your Country around and truly Make Argentina Great Again!" Trump wrote on his Truth...
PETALING JAYA: The tuberculosis cases in Cheras are unrelated and do not constitute an outbreak, says Federal Territories health director Dr Nor'Aishah Abu Bakar. She was responding to a social media post claiming that three unrelated tuberculosis cases at a local apartment complex as an outbreak zone. "Other viral claims pertain to alleged tuberculosis cases in several...
PETALING JAYA: Community Communications Department (J-Kom) training division director Muhamad Hakim Ramlee denies he is Mr H, the person said to be behind a video that implicates the department's former director-general Datuk Dr Mohammad Agus Yusoff. Muhamad Hakim strongly denied blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin's accusation that he was the 'Mr H' concerned. ALSO READ: Ex-J-Kom DG fields tough...
SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated that his country will stick to a path of peaceful development as he wrapped his first visit to the US in six years, having eased tensions between the world’s top two economies. "The fundamental goal of China’s development is to improve the well-being of the Chinese people, not to...
PETALING JAYA: The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) passenger train will travel at a maximum speed of 160kmh upon the commencement of commercial operations in January 2027, says Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL). MRL, the project owner of the ECRL pointed out that its rail infrastructure including foundation works, rail track, rail signalling system and...
KUALA LUMPUR: A prominent Chinese scholar hopes the ECRL (East Coast Rail Link) project will be completed as two high-speed rail projects in South-East Asia have already been built. "The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail and Laos-China high-speed rail have been completed. Hopefully, the ERCL project will be completed quickly, too," said Victor Gao, the chair professor at...
KOTA KINABALU: Police are waiting for a post-mortem report on a 61-year-old woman who was found dead at the Likas Bay beach here to establish cause of death. Though they did not find any evidence of foul play, police said they could not speculate. Kota Kinabalu acting police chief Supt Kalsom Idris said the autopsy report was...
