SUBANG: His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia departed for China on Thursday (Sept 19) morning for a four-day state visit at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. This is His Majesty's first visit to the republic after ascending the throne as the 17th King of Malaysia on Jan 31 this year. The special aircraft carrying His...
The 47-year-old, who performed to a sold-out arena in Hainan last Sunday, would breakdance for free lamb skewers without his lecturer mum's knowledge. Who knew Kanye West lived in China before? In what feels like a sort of homecoming, the 47-year-old American rapper performed a sold-out arena in Hainan on Sunday (September 15). Before the show, Kanye took to Instagram...
KUALA LUMPUR: When His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, makes his visit to China from Sept 19 to 22, it will be a significant milestone as the last visit by a Malaysian King was over a decade ago. More importantly, the visit marks the celebration of 50 years of friendship between Malaysia and China this...
BEIJING: Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai Monday morning (Sept 16) as a Category 1 storm, the most powerful tropical cyclone to directly hit the Chinese financial hub in more than seven decades. Packing top wind speeds of 151kmh near its eye, Bebinca landed in the city of nearly 25 million around 7.30am, state media reported,...
BEIJING (SCMP): A Chinese woman was brutally beaten and blinded by her husband two months after they married because she refused to fund his gaming habit. The woman, known as Lao Chunxue, 28, from Inner Mongolia in northern China, met her husband, surnamed Xie, who is two years older than her, through an introduction by a...
BEIJING: Middle-aged wives in China are participating in “sex appeal training camps” designed to teach them seduction techniques as a means to discourage their husbands from cheating. In July, a group of women convened in the eastern city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province for a two-day programme that charged each participant 2,999 yuan (US$420). A poster advertising...
KUALA LUMPUR: The trade volume between Malaysia and China for the first seven months of this year reached US$117.52bil (RM549.84bil), says China's Ambassador to Malaysia, Ouyang Yujing. The Chinese Embassy in Malaysia reported a 10.8% increase compared to the same period last year. Furthermore, he said China’s non-financial direct investment in Malaysia has grown to US$1.28bil (RM5.99bil),...
So much better than just giving their employees stress. Ever heard of job perks? China-based media company Mediastorm has definitely taken these perks to the next level. A screenshot of the CEO of Mediastorm’s text to his employees has recently gone viral on Chinese social media sites with almost 14 mil views. It read: “As usual, everyone will be given an...
Though the boy has since dropped out of school, his mum still considers it a win. It seems the school of hard knocks didn’t turn out the way one mum in China wanted it to. In an interview with the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a woman surnamed Deng said she had encouraged her 17-year-old son Shen...
Super Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit Asia this year, has left a path of destruction across southern China, Philippines and Vietnam. The storm wreaked havoc in northern Vietnam on September 7, triggering landslides and floods that have left over 65 people dead, and over 750 injured. As the affected cities cope with the aftermath of the calamity,...
