Новости за 18.04.2024

KUALA LUMPUR: Unseeded Chen Yu Jie is among eight Malaysians who won their opening round matches in the Asian Qualifier for the World Championships on Thursday.

KOTA KINABALU: The body of Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) founder, the late Tan Sri Joseph Kurup, has arrived in Kota Kinabalu at 11.20pm last night.

UNITED NATIONS, United States: Full UN membership for the Palestinians would help alleviate the “historic injustice” suffered by generations, a senior Palestinian Authority official said Thursday ahead of a Security Council vote on the membership bid.

IPOH: A man ended up in the lockup after his tantrums attracted police when the car he was driving got stuck at the end of a motorcycle bridge in Kuala Kurau this morning.

We don’t want them to grow up to be self-centred, uncaring and unloving souls without a conscience and with no respect for the institutions of the land, for law and order, for people or even for life itself.

HER living room is a far cry from the bustling, brightly lit film sets she once loved, but Setaish Hayat says making YouTube videos at home is the next best thing in Afghanistan where the Taliban have increasingly confined women indoors.

CAPABLE of breaching even the most highly protected airspace, the United States Air Force’s new B-21 bomber is arguably the most advanced warplane on earth.

Many from the younger generation do not know much about our food heritage.

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According to Dutch academic Lourens J.J. Meijer, Malaysia is among the top contributors of plastic pollution in the ocean, ranking third in the world.

SOUTHEAST Asia is one ambitious region. Nowhere is this more evident than in its climate change goals.

JERUSALEM: Israel launched more deadly strikes on besieged Gaza on Thursday as Western governments unveiled sweeping sanctions against Iran’s military drone programme in response to the country’s unprecedented attack on its arch enemy Israel.

PETALING JAYA: FAM launched the professional Referees Academy at a hotel in Petaling Jaya on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) director-general Admiral (Maritime) Datuk Hamid Mohd Amin will go on mandatory retirement tomorrow after 42 years of service in the country’s security forces.

​SIBU: A lorry driver died in a hydraulic oil drum explosion at a scrap metal yard on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman here today.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s video gaming industry is projected to hit US$649 million (RM3.1 billion) in revenue in 2024 after registering significant growth in recent times, said Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

JOHOR BARU: The Defence Ministry will conduct a thorough investigation to determine if the combat diving pool at Kem Iskandar in Mersing meets the specifications of the 21st Special Forces Group (GGK).

GENEVA: Lawyers for two men accused of embezzling US$1.8 billion from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB began laying out their case Thursday after Swiss state prosecutors sought hefty jail terms.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has ruled that a postnuptial agreement between a business tycoon and his Singapore-born wife, allowing the husband to keep a mistress during the subsistence of their marriage, is valid.

PARIS: UEFA announced it had fined Barcelona 25,000 euros ($26,680) for racist behaviour by their fans after two supporters were questioned by police following their Champions League quarter-final first leg with Paris Saint-Germain.

MISSED what happened today? Here's a glimpse at what happened throughout the country in photographs.

NEW DELHI: Two top Indian wrestlers have been “sleeping on the floor” at Dubai airport after record rainfall disrupted travel to and from the Middle East financial centre, Indian media reported.

BAYAN LEPAS: A motorcyclist was seriously injured when he fell off a flyover at Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah here during the evening peak hours today.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Mosti) aims to facilitate the establishment of up to 900 artificial intelligence (AI) startups by 2026 through the A.I Sandbox 2024 Pilot Programme.

KUALA LUMPUR: A woman in Brazil was arrested after she brought a dead man to a bank to sign off on a 17,000 reais (S$4,400) loan, as reported by the Brazilian media.