PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim met with his Thai counterpart Srettha Thavisin for the first time in New York on Thursday (Sept 21) evening. This meeting was also attended by delegations from both countries who are attending the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). "This meeting provides opportunities to strengthen existing cooperation while exploring...
New York is not the capital of the United States, nor is it the largest or most populous state. However, New York, along with California, is the most well-known state in the United States. If you spend a couple of days in New York and use the subway, you might meet people from every country...
Box-office ticket sales of the movie Barbie topped US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) in the United States and worldwide since its debut more than two weeks ago, Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, announced on Sunday (Aug 6). In a statement, Warner Bros. said the movie took in US$459 million from domestic theatres and another US$572.1...
NEW YORK (AP): Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as I Left My Heart In San Francisco graced a decades-long career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday. Publicist...
Artificial intelligence isn’t just about ChatGPT – far from it. In New York, for example, police used an AI tool to help identify and catch a drug trafficker, simply by analyzing his suspicious driving habits. Forbes recounts this incredible story, which took place last year in Scarsdale, a small town in upstate New York. In March...
American lawmakers see TikTok as a problem. Yet the bipartisan attack on the short-form video app, owned by China-based ByteDance, really points to two different complications – and each, in turn, opens up a much bigger can of worms. A panel of officials from the House of Representatives grilled TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew on...
South Korean pop band Blackpink and American poet Amanda Gorman took to the United Nations stage on Monday to urge action on climate change and other global goals that include achieving gender equality and ending hunger and poverty. Gorman read a new poem in the UN General Assembly chamber in New York, a day before world...
From the street, 670 Union Street looks like one in a line of brick buildings on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn. But inside, exposed timber beams, columns and floorboards make it clear this 14-apartment condominium is no typical New York City building. "Timber House is the first mass-timber condo building in the city, perhaps the state," Eric...
Singer Ne-Yo rehearses for a pop up show in New York City, New York, US, July 20, 2022Reuters US R&B singer Ne-Yo is letting his music speak for itself with the release of his eighth studio album Self Explanatory, which came out last week. The three-time Grammy winner said making music at this point in his career is easier...
Emergency personnel from the FDNY provide medical aid as they respond to an apartment building fire in the Bronx borough of New York City, US, on Jan 9, 2022.Reuters Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire started by a malfunctioning space heater spread smoke through a 19-floor building in...
