BAGHDAD: Turkey and Malaysia will further enhance and strengthen their bilateral relations and jointly address concerns related to Islamophobia, says Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Fidan said the matter was discussed with his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir who is Iran for his maiden official visit to
MUNICH: Top German chef Alfons Schuhbeck, who has cooked for prominent figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Charlie Chaplin and Bayern Munich football players, started his prison sentence for tax evasion on Wednesday, reported German news agency (dpa). The head of Bavaria’s Landsberg am Lech correctional facility, Monika Groß, confirmed
SYDNEY: The Australian state of Victoria on Thursday announced a new investment to divert an extra 50,000 tonnes of food and garden waste from landfills each year, reported Xinhua. With support from the federal government, the AUD$3.56 million (US$2.3 million) investment would allow a Melbourne-based waste management business to expand
YINCHUAN: At a staggering size of eight metres in length, eight metres in width and 17 centimetres in height, the largest piece of tofu in China was produced Wednesday by a company in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, reported Xinhua. Officials from the Shanghai China Records headquarters declared the triumphant accomplishment
ANKARA: The rover of India’s C moon mission exited its lander and travelled across the lunar dust for the first time, the country’s space agency announced on Thursday. India on Wednesday made history after its moon mission touched down in a soft landing, becoming the first country to have landed
KUALA LUMPUR: The Air Accident Investigation Bureau (BSKU) team leader will leave for the United States (US) this evening, to get the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) memory puck of the Beechcraft Model 390 (Premier 1) extracted and analysed by a laboratory in Florida. Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the data
KUALA TERENGGANU: Patterns of various motifs produced with the “canting” hand-drawn technique on high-quality fabrics such as natural silk makes Malaysian batik more charming and elegant than stamped batik from other countries. The delicate manufacturing process (repeated waxing, dip-dyeing, boiling) with the application of liquid wax patterns of flora, fauna
PUTRAJAYA: The Immigration Department has busted a human trafficking and smuggling syndicate in Sarawak with the arrest of five men, including the 40-year-old local mastermind known as ‘Dudley’. The five men, including four Indian nationals aged between 20 and 40, were arrested in raids under the special Ops Dudley around
KUALA LUMPUR: The National Sports Council (NSC), in their capacity as organisers of the Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) 2023, have confirmed receiving assurances that there is sufficient sponsorship to ensure the Sept 23-30 race can be run smoothly. NSC director-general Datuk Ahmad Shapawi Ismail said the NSC had already
KUALA LUMPUR: Young race driver Muhammad Hakim Danish Ramli has been chosen as the recipient of the Best Young Athlete award to be presented at the Sportswriters Association of Malaysia (SAM)-100PLUS 2022 awards ceremony on Aug 29. SAM vice-president Hazreen Mubarak said the consistency and success of Muhammad Hakim, or
