KUALA LUMPUR: The Member of Parliament (MP) for Muar, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, will be seated in the opposition bloc of the Dewan Rakyat beginning on Tuesday (Sept 12) following his decision to withdraw support for the Unity Government. Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul said he had received a letter from the Malaysian...
YANGSAN, South Korea (Korea Herald/ANN): A man in his 40s has been detained by the South Korean police for using an electric shocker on a woman in her 50s. The Yangsan Police Station in South Gyeongsang province said on Thursday that it had requested an arrest warrant for the suspect on a charge of special violence. Under...
SEOUL (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A South Korean influencer is stirring up a hornet’s nest online with her bizarre selfies that only the most gullible will believe are actually of her in the flesh. Shasheile is seen in her photos with reality-morphing proportions: a head with a babyish, anime-looking face that is so tiny it’s...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians in South Korea should make use of the knowledge they learn from the nation's first nationwide civil defence exercise set to take place on Wednesday (23 August), says an academic. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's (UKM) strategic studies and international relations senior lecturer Dr. Hoo Chiew Ping told Bernama that raising awareness of disaster management...
SEONGNAM, South Korea (Reuters) - An apparently random stabbing attack in a commuter town near Seoul, the second such rampage in South Korea in less than two weeks, has sparked fear in a country that has long been considered safe with a low murder rate and strict firearm curbs. A man rammed his car into passers-by...
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has secured another RM300mil investment from SK Group, the second-largest conglomerate in South Korea. “This comes after SK Nexilis (as part of SK Group’s electric vehicle value chain) invested RM4.2bil to construct the world's largest copper foil manufacturing plant in Sabah (since 2021),” said state Industrial Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Phoong Jin Zhe...
The US, South Korea and Japan expressed deep concern over North Korea's "malicious" cyber activities to support its weapons programmes, in comments released in a joint statement on Friday (April 7). Crypto currency funds stolen by North Korean hackers have been a key source for financing the sanctions-stricken country's weapons programmes, officials and experts in the US...
365 Days, the globally popular Netflix film, gave fame to the Italian actor Michele Morrone following its release in 2020 for his portrayal of the kidnapper and a mafia member Massimo Torricelli. Following this the actor has gone on to become an international star and continues to be welcomed by fans with his most recent visit to...
South Koreans may soon be able to carry a device inside their own bodies in the form of a bespoke tattoo that automatically alerts them to potential health problems, if a science team's project bears fruit. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the city of Daejeon southwest of Seoul have...
South Korean prosecutors carried out search and seizure operations at local cryptocurrency exchanges and related offices, looking for evidence of illegal practice involved in the collapse of cryptocurrency Luna in May. "A total of 15 places, including crypto-currency exchanges and related offices, were searched on Wednesday for proof of allegations," a spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday...
