KUALA LUMPUR: The voting process for representatives of the Youth Parliament will undergo a major revamp next year, said Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul. He said this was after the Ministry of Youth and Sports agreed to hand over the project to Parliament to manage. “The Youth Parliament
KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah today expressed happiness after having the opportunity to fulfil their dream to get closer to the people of Sabah and Sarawak through the Kembara Kenali Borneo tour programme. Their Majesties
KUALA LUMPUR: The domestic retail sector is expected to maintain its growth trajectory throughout the rest of this year, said MIDF Research. In a note today, the investment bank said the growth will be underpinned by sustained demand for essential items, the resurgence of out-of-home consumption, and the uptick in
BENGHAZI: The aid organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday said it was sending an emergency team to Libya following the devastating storm that killed thousands. “An emergency team composed of logisticians and medical workers is being deployed to Derna, and will arrive in the city by tomorrow to assess
ROME: The communal council of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa has declared an emergency over the arrival of more than 8,000 illegal migrants to the island in the past three days, Mayor Filippo Mannino said Wednesday, reported Sputnik. “The communal council has declared an emergency. We have confirmed what
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened higher against the greenback as the latest US inflation data strengthened hopes that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) would hold interest rates. At 9.05 am, the local note rose to 4.6750/6800 against the greenback from Wednesday’s close of 4.6785/6835. Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd chief economist
VIENNA: The Austrian government announced Wednesday that it would raise pensions by 9.7 per cent next year due to high inflation in the country. The package, worth a total of €5.3 billion (US$5.7 billion), will cover 2.2 million pensioners in the central European country, Xinhua quoted Austria’s social affairs minister
GENEVA: France registered nearly 400 excess deaths during the August heat wave, the country’s public health agency said on Wednesday. People aged 75 and over were the most affected, Anadolu Agency reported the agency said in a statement, adding that no fatal workplace accidents were notified in the said period.
TRIPOLI: The death toll from devastating floods that struck eastern Libya has risen to 5,500, with another 7,000 injured, Xinhua quoted a local official as saying on Wednesday. Osama Ali, the spokesman for the Tripoli-based emergency services, said that no final death toll could be determined yet because bodies are
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Wednesday disputed the findings of France’s regulator claiming iPhone 12 emits electromagnetic radiation above standard for exposure. The discontinued smartphone, which was first released in 2020, has a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) that is above the European Union standard of 4 watts per kilogramme, according to
