BEIJING: China on Dec 22 unveiled new draft rules for online video games, imposing strict rules on players' spending as Beijing continues to tighten regulations for the sector. Online games need to set spending limits and ban daily login rewards, according to the draft rules released by the National Press and Publication Administration on Friday. The draft rules...
SHANGHAI: China on Dec 22 announced new plans to restrict the online gaming industry, sending shares in tech giants including Tencent tumbling. New draft restrictions published online by the regulator are aimed at limiting in-game purchases and compulsive playing behaviour. Following the news, Tencent dropped over 10% in Hong Kong, while rival Netease was down more than 20%. Beijing...
NEW YORK: The owner of Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult content websites, has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent, federal prosecutors in New York announced Dec 21. Aylo Holdings, the website’s parent company, reached a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a...
PETALING JAYA: Private credit reporting agency CTOS has detected 335,000 pieces of personal identifiable information on the dark web belonging to over 58,000 Malaysian consumers in the last three years. In a statement released on Dec 21, the company said the data detected include credit card and debit card details, passport information, email addresses and phone numbers. Since...
The Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCert) is warning members of the public about scammers claiming to be employees from “Axiata Digital Labs International” in a WhatsApp job scam. Based on screenshots of conversations posted by MyCert, the scammers would text individuals via WhatsApp with an offer to join a lucrative project. They claimed that the individuals have been...
U Mobile has announced that the company will be expanding its U Home Fibre home broadband catering to users in high-rise buildings on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The company said that the U Home Fibre will be made available to over one million homes through a partnership with Time by leveraging on its fibre...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has emerged as the overall champion in the 3rd Global Esports Games held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia recently, finishing on top of the table with one gold medal and two silver. The country took home a gold medal in the Dota 2 Women’s Category after defeating Peru 2-0 in the finals on Dec 16. The...
SINGAPORE: Advertisements for campus accommodation at some local universities have appeared on Chinese social media platforms and Carousell recently, throwing the illegal practice back in the spotlight. Rooms at Nanyang Technological University hostels were being offered for short and long-term rentals on Chinese social media apps Xiaohongshu and WeChat. One advertisement was offering a room for S$350 (RM1,225)...
A client of Malaysia’s biggest bank recently discovered that her bank balance had mysteriously increased to more than RM400mil. When Hafidzah Abdullah checked her account late last month it showed she was over RM404mil in credit. It would have been a huge windfall, especially in a country where the average household takes home around US$22,000 (RM102,993)...
A Maybank customer was surprised to wake up one day and find more than RM400mil parked in her account. Hafidzah Abdullah, director and co-founder of Malaysia HR Forum, knew she could not have become a multimillionaire overnight. Nor could she have expected the tortuous path she had to take to report the glitch and regain access...
