In recent years, selling and buying things online have become the norm. Of course, this opened up a whole new market for people. One of the ways people sell their goods now is by live streaming as it allows them to show off the goods and market their things in real time. Unfortunately, no matter how...
The daughter of Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim married her long-time friend in a low-key ceremony on Friday (Aug 5) in Kuala Lumpur attended by close friends and family members. Nurul Izzah Anwar and Yin Shao Loong were in a relationship for some time but it was known only to their inner circles and relatives, The Vibes...
China's military announced fresh military drills on Monday (Aug 8) in the seas and airspace around Taiwan - a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week's visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China's Eastern Theatre Command said it would conduct joint drills focusing on anti-submarine and...
A story about a four-year-old boy in China giving three salutes to a policewoman who helped him apply for an identity card (ID) has touched millions online on the mainland. The unnamed boy from Fuyang in Anhui province in eastern China visited his local police station with his mother and older brother last Friday (Aug 5) to...
Hong Kong is easing Covid-19 entry rules for international arrivals from Friday (Aug 12), requiring them to remain in a hotel for three days before undergoing four days of "home medical surveillance" that will allow limited movement into areas where vaccine pass checks are not mandatory. The long-awaited cut from seven days of mandatory quarantine in...
Police in New Mexico on Sunday (Aug 7) asked for the public's help in locating a "vehicle of interest" in their probe of four fatal shootings of Muslim men whose slayings in Albuquerque over the past nine months are believed by investigators to be related. The latest victim, police said, was gunned down on Friday night,...
YouTuber Darryl Ian Koshy, who committed various sexual offences, including offering cash to a boy below 18 for sexual services, was jailed for 32 weeks on Friday (Aug 5). Better known as Dee Kosh, the 33-year-old will begin serving his sentence on Friday. Koshy had pleaded guilty in May to one charge of offering cash to a...
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...
