PHNOM PENH: The national badminton squad ended their outing at the 2023 SEA Games here without a gold medal after their last hope, mixed doubles scratch pair Yap Roy King-Cheng Su Yin, lost in the final today. The unseeded Roy King-Su Yin had to settle for silver after they went
LOS ANGELES: The United States has launched a first-in-human clinical trial of an experimental oral drug for removing radioactive contaminants from inside the body, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Monday. The trial is testing the safety, tolerability and processing in the body of escalating doses of
KUALA LUMPUR: The Transport Ministry (MoT) is working on a new road tax structure for electric vehicles (EVs), said minister Anthony Loke. He said the new structure was expected to be unveiled at the end of this year and would feature prominently in the ministry’s Budget 2024 proposals. He said
MELAKA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today asked the Ministry of Education (MoE) to set up a special task force to find a way to stimulate children’s interest in subjects related to science and technology. He said the world is now moving towards green technology, especially in the automotive
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) aims to collect more than RM5 billion in revenue by the end of this year. Its director-general Datuk Zailani Hashim said this was based on several programmes and digitalisation initiatives launched by JPJ recently. He said the largest collection of JPJ each year
NEW DEHLI: Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn is looking to invest US$500 million in a new factory in India, the minister for IT of the state of Telangana announced on Tuesday, reported German news agency (dpa). The new facility would create “25,000 direct jobs” in the southern Indian metropolis of Hyderabad,
KUCHING: A total of 11 rabies cases among humans including nine deaths were reported in Sarawak from Jan 1 to May 15, this year. Health director-general Datuk Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan said the total number of rabies cases among humans in Sarawak since the outbreak was declared in July
TOKYO: Police are searching for an angler who went missing at a lake in Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, suspecting he may have been attacked by a bear after a human head was found in the area, Xinhua quoted local media on Tuesday. According to police, Toshihiro Nishikawa, 54, went
PHNOM PENH: After missing out on a final ticket in men’s singles at the 2023 SEA Games here, national shuttler Leong Jun Hao is now looking forward to making things right in the Malaysia Masters 2023 next week. The world number 64 said he hoped to make the cut to
BERLIN: The total number of known executions carried out around the world in 2022 rose by 53 per cent on the figure recorded for 2021, reported the German Press Agency (dpa) According to an Amnesty International report on the worldwide use of the death penalty released on Tuesday, there were
