Новости за 29.04.2024

OSAKA: The average number of monthly accidents involving electric scooters has shown a six-fold rise in Japan after the country started allowing users to ride the vehicles without a driver’s license in July 2023, recent data by the National Police Agency showed.

KUALA LUMPUR: Peugeot pounces back into the local market with the advent of its 2024 variant of the 408.

BERLIN: The European Union needs to install almost eight times more electric vehicle charging points per year than it did in 2023 to meet forecast demand, European autos group ACEA said on Monday.

BEIJING: Elon Musk made progress towards rolling out Tesla's advanced driver-assistance package in China on a whirlwind weekend trip to Beijing, sending the company's shares soaring more than 16% on Monday.

Now the online platform she relies on to support her family is poised to be banned in what entrepreneurs using TikTok condemn as an attack on their livelihoods.

BEIJING: Geely Auto Group, one of China’s largest private carmakers, today unveiled its new car concept - the Galaxy Technology Flagship sports utility vehicle (SUV) Galaxy Starship, the world’s first 11-in-one intelligent electric drive.

THE growing pro-Palestinian protests worldwide is a barometer of one thing: the world order as we know it needs to be re-engineered. It is brutally clear that it is not a just world order.

LONDON: U.S. and European politicians have raised alarms that their domestic auto industries could be destroyed by a wave of cheap Chinese electric vehicles. But so far, China’s top EV maker, BYD, has dramatically hiked export prices compared to what it charges at home rather than undercut foreign rivals.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Aman's Classified Crime Investigation Unit (USJT) is set to press charges tomorrow in a case involving alleged seditious messages circulated within the Whatsapp group ‘Khariah Pmtg Sungai Dua’ .

BEIJING: Electric vehicle executives at a top car show in China were bullish on prospects for growth, despite a gruelling price war and mounting Western pressure on the industry.

ROME: Italian supercar maker Lamborghini presented its first-ever hybrid plug-in sports utility vehicle, the Urus SE, at the 2024 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition on Thursday, reported Xinhua.

PARIS: Renault held talks with China’s Li Auto and Xiaomi on electric and intelligent vehicle technologies, the French carmaker said, opening the door to potential collaboration on technology with the two companies.

KUALA LUMPUR: The federal police Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (JIPS) has detained a police officer from the Gerik Police Headquarters for being in possession of drugs in his cupboard.

BEIJING: Global automakers including Volkswagen and Toyota came to this year’s Beijing auto show looking to catch up to surging China EV makers that are dominating the world’s largest auto market.

SEREMBAN: Skeletal remains, believed to be that of a human, were found in an oil palm plantation at Felda Sungai Kelamah in Gemas, Tampin at about 2.10 pm today.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has arrested a former civil servant on suspicion of defrauding a state government agency, resulting in the fragmentation of Malay Reserve Land covering an area of ​​approximately 649.2 hectares.

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YANGON: Myanmar recorded its hottest ever April temperature of 48.2 degrees Celsius (118.76 Fahrenheit), authorities said Monday, as the Southeast Asian nation bakes in a heatwave.

SUNGAI PETANI: The temporary suspension of night market business operations during Maghrib, which will be enforced starting May 1 in Kedah, only involves Muslim traders, said Permanent Committee for Housing, Local Government, and Health chairman, Major (R) Mansor Zakaria.

MADRID: Carlos Alcaraz said he is playing pain-free at the Madrid Open following an arm injury that derailed the start of his claycourt season but the defending champion still has some lingering doubts about his forehand.

KOTA BARU: The suspects involved in the bomb explosion and gunfire in Pasemas district, Sungai Golok sub-province, are believed to have escaped to Kelantan via the shallow Golok river.

LONDON: Britain’s Geraint Thomas said he hopes to compete at the Paris Olympics this summer but only if he feels capable of winning another medal.

KUALA LUMPUR: As expected, Malaysia crashed out in the preliminary stage of the Uber Cup after being whipped 5-0 by Thailand for their second successive defeat in Group B in Chengdu on Monday.

RIYADH: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim held a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Special Meeting here today.

Order for Bung Moktar, wife to answer graft charges contrary to court evidence - High Court judge