KUALA LUMPUR: Being small-sized and only 157 centimetres tall are no hindrance for 25-year-old Nur Sabrina Mohmad Fuad to become a professional scuba diving instructor. What is more, the profession is considered challenging as well as dominated by men and foreigners even though the sport has been popular in Malaysia
MEXICO: Peru’s former prime minister Betssy Chávez was arrested at her home in the country’s south, local media reported on Tuesday, according to German news agency (dpa). The South American country’s highest court had issued an arrest warrant for Chávez, the ex-cabinet chief of former president Pedro Castillo, who was
TEL AVIV: Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a gas station near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing at least four and injuring four others, Israeli military said, reported Xinhua. The military said in a statement that two Palestinian men armed with M16 rifles arrived by car
KUALA LUMPUR: The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) will not be hasty in finding a successor to Wong Choong Hann, who resigned as singles’ coaching director recently. BAM president Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria conceded that it is not easy to find a coach to fill the vacancy left by
KUALA LUMPUR: An international football academy with a curriculum and training that produced star players such as Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, James Ward Prowse and Sadio Mane has been made available at the Highlands International Boarding School (HIBS) in Genting Highlands. Known as the ICMS Elite Football Academy, it would
KUALA LUMPUR: Kenya eyes bilateral ties expansion with Malaysia through exports of agriculture products which includes coffee and tea, said Kenya’s High Commissioner to Malaysia Francis Ndegwa Muhoro. Muhoro said with conducive initiatives provided by his country, Malaysian business players should grab the market access opportunity in order to further
MEXICO CITY: At least 25 inmates of a women’s penitentiary in Honduras have died in a fire, seven others have been stabbed to death and dozens injured during violent clashes between two warring prison gangs, reported Sputnik, quoting local media on Tuesday. At least 25 charred female bodies have been
ATHENS: Petteri Orpo, the leader of Finland’s National Coalition Party, has become the country’s new prime minister after approval from parliament and the president on Tuesday. Orpo will lead the right-wing coalition consisting of the National Coalition Party, the far-right Finns Party, the Swedish People’s Party and the Christian Democrats,
HANOI: Singapore has for the first time overcome Hong Kong, London (UK) and New York (US) to become the most expensive city for an upper-class lifestyle, according to the 2023 Global Wealth and Lifestyle Report released by Julius Baer Group based in Switzerland. The report indicated that cars and basic
TORONTO: About 40 hours of oxygen is left in the lost Titanic tourist submersible, which disappeared Sunday on an expedition to explore the famed shipwreck, the US coast guard said Tuesday. Coast Guard members provided an update to search efforts to find the submersible and answered questions from reporters. “There’s