Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion (S$20.6 billion) arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal. In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory...
Tencent Holdings, China's most valuable company, will cancel free breakfast and dinner perks for its contract personnel in line with efforts to cut costs, according to two such employees who received that internal notice. Those personnel, who are outsourced by third-party firms to work at Tencent for a predetermined period and sum of money, were told...
China should think twice before unleashing more economic weapons on Taiwan to avoid blowback that could leave it in a "deeper predicament", experts and foreign business leaders say. Beijing launched a barrage of trade suspensions on Taipei on Wednesday (Aug 3) following the controversial visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including export and import bans...
Monkeypox outbreaks in Africa are not concentrated among gay men, unlike in other parts of the world, experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Africa CDC said on Thursday (Aug 4). Outbreaks of the viral disease have been reported from 78 countries, mostly in Europe, and 98 per cent of cases outside the countries...
Losing weight is a subject that is becoming more and more prevalent in today’s society. This subject is usually mixed with a lot of opinions that are not well informed. Without the proper knowledge of physiology and our current society, it is very hard to grasp this subject properly. Most people think that someone is...
Malaysia's ban on chicken exports is expected to end on Aug 31, Agriculture and Food Industries Minister Ronald Kiandee told parliament on Thursday (Aug 4). Malaysia, which supplies live chickens mainly to neighbouring Singapore and Thailand, in June halted exports until production and prices stabilise. The move came after a global feed shortage exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine...
Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant has got stuck on a reef in the South China Sea where it capsized in June, but posed no threat to other vessels, according to the mainland Chinese maritime authorities investigating the incident. A duty officer at the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration on Wednesday (Aug 3) said the floating restaurant was...
As a possible Taiwan visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparks explosive rows between Beijing and Washington, the reaction from Southeast Asian nations has been more muted, including calling upon the two rival powers to defuse tensions. International relations and defence experts say it is understandable that Beijing sees Pelosi's likely trip as a "provocation",...
Local YouTuber chef Khairulaming took to his Twitter recently to share some good news with his followers online. In the post, he began by revealing that his company has successfully made a whopping RM14 million worth of sales after successfully selling over a million bottles of his “Sambal Nyet Berapi” product. The good news didn’t stop just there,...
Seeing a night bazaar pop up in the neighbourhood might be a pleasant surprise, but not for some residents in Hougang who were on the receiving end of a rather distinctive smell from one stall. The source? A stinky tofu stall, Man Kou Xiang, located at the corner of the night bazaar. Since the bazaar, or pasar malam, opened on...
