SINGAPORE (Bernama): Tourism Malaysia (Singapore) is stepping up efforts to attract Singaporean travellers by spotlighting a wider range of niche and diversified tourism offerings, as part of its business-to-consumer (B2C) push in the lead-up to Visit Malaysia 2026 (VM2026). Tourism Malaysia (Singapore) director Norliza Md Zain said the office is participating in various travel fairs, collaborating...
SHANGHAI (Bernama-Xinhua): China's domestically developed C909 passenger jet has begun commercial operation in Vietnam, further expanding its presence in Southeast Asia, according to Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC). Two C909 aircraft, wet leased by Chengdu Airlines to Vietnam's Vietjet Air, began service on Saturday on the Hanoi-Con Dao-Ho Chi Minh City route, the aircraft maker said. Wet...
SAN FERNANDO, Philippines (AFP): Scores of penitents whipped themselves bloody under a scorching Philippine sun while others were nailed to crosses in a polarising Good Friday tradition drawing the most extreme of Catholic devotees. The macabre spectacle, officially frowned on by the Church, attracts thousands of Filipinos -- and a smattering of tourists -- each Easter...
WASHINGTON (AP): About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of senator Robert F. Kennedy have been released, including handwritten notes by the gunman, who said the Democratic presidential candidate "must be disposed of" and acknowledged an obsession with killing him. Many of the files had been made public previously, while others had not...
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6 p.m. Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday until the end of Sunday. There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine. "Based on humanitarian considerations ... the Russian side announces an Easter truce. I order a stop to all...
ROME (Reuters) -The Italian language proved a secret weapon for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she launched a charm offensive with U.S. President Donald Trump and his deputy JD Vance in back-to-back transatlantic meetings. Meloni met both Trump and Vance at the White House on Thursday before heading straight home to Italy. Vance also left Washington...
BEIJING (Xinhua): Once the king of China's silver screen, Hollywood now finds itself sidelined, as local blockbusters surge and Washington's tariffs against the rest of the world add fuel to shifting audience sentiment. According to data released this week, Chinese animated feature "Ne Zha 2" has scored a thunderous success, raking in 15.2 billion yuan (about...
SHANGHAI: (Bernama-Xinhua) The rapid evolution of China's new energy vehicle (NEV) sector is driving multinational corporations to restructure their China strategies, prompting some to scale up local investments across research and development (R&D), production and supply chains, Xinhua reported. German chemical giant BASF earlier this week announced a 500-million-yuan (about US$69.3 million) investment for the expansion...
At the invitation of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, I will soon pay a state visit to Malaysia. This will be my second visit to your beautiful country in 12 years. I look forward to experiencing Malaysia's remarkable progress and transformation in person, and meeting with Malaysian friends to celebrate our friendship and...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in Rio Grande do Norte state on Friday after getting sick with abdominal pain, his son Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said in a statement. (Reporting by Luciana Magalhaes; Writing by Isabel Teles)
