LIANYUNGANG: With most crimes today often committed by international syndicates, countries must recognise this as a common threat and work hand-in-hand to combat it, says Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that national efforts alone would not be enough to combat transnational crime; it demands strong international collaboration. Law enforcement agencies,...
BEIJING: A nursery school in China fired its principal because she accepted a small box of chocolates, worth US$0.85, from a pupil. Wang, the head of Sanxia Kindergarten in Chongqing, southwestern China, took legal action against her former employer after being dismissed in September last year, reported China National Radio. Surveillance footage of the nursery showed a...
PETALING JAYA: Musang King Durians from Malaysia are being sold at RM350 per fruit in China, says Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu. "This is what I saw during my visit to Shenzen, China. All the durians were sold off within a couple of hours," he wrote in a Facebook post on Monday (Aug 26). The Agriculture and Food...
Malaysia’s first shipment of fresh durian to the giant China market has arrived, vying for demand from eager consumers who are used to buying the spiky and pungent fruit from Thailand and Vietnam. Deputy agriculture and food security minister Datuk Arthur Joseph Kurup said on Saturday that exporters had begun shipping 40 tonnes of fresh durian...
BERLIN (Xinhua): Meng Meng, an 11-year-old female giant panda at Zoo Berlin, has given birth to twins, zoo authorities announced on Friday night. "The eagerly awaited second offspring of Meng Meng was born at 13:03 and 14:19 on Thursday in Zoo Berlin's Panda Garden," said the zoo in a press release. Both cubs, weighing 169g and 136g...
The boss of a charity organisation in China has been accused of seeking sexual favours from a desperate mother in exchange for donations to help her seriously ill child. A female charity worker, surnamed Zheng, who helped set up the 9958 Project under the China Charities Aid Foundation for Children, publicly accused Lei Ke, the regional...
A disgraced kung fu master in China has made a comeback in nightclubs, performing his infamous self-created martial arts moves. Ma Baoguo, 72, has been seen by online observers who said he had transformed himself into a “godfather of nightclubs”, appearing at venues in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and other cities across the country. From Henan province in central...
BEIJING: The death toll has risen to 38 from the partial collapse of a highway bridge in northwestern Shaanxi province two weeks ago that plunged two dozen vehicles into a rushing river, China's state broadcaster CCTV reported Friday (Aug 2) evening. The report said 24 people were still missing from the July 19 disaster, after which...
BEIJING: Torrential rains in China have killed at least 30 people and left dozens more missing, state media said on Thursday (Aug 1), as the country grinds through another summer of extreme weather. Confirmation of the deaths came the same day that weather authorities said July was China's hottest month since records began six decades ago. China...
New role, who dis? Chinese producer-screenwriter Yu Zheng shared some stills from his upcoming drama Lin Jiang Xian, starring Bai Lu, Joseph Zeng, He Ruixian and Chen Xinhai, on Weibo today (July 19). Among the cast is a familiar face looking quite unfamiliar — Ayden Sng. Back in April, the 30-year-old Mediacorp actor shared that he was in...
