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Breaking: 7 dead, 21 missing after boat touring Budapest sinks
The sightseeing vessel had at least 33 South Korean passengers when it collided with another vessel and sank in Hungary. BUDAPEST, Hungary — Dozens of rescue workers searched the Danube River in downtown Budapest for 21 people missing after a
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Bomb joke lands airline passenger in hot water
KUCHING: An airline passenger bound for Kuala Lumpur on the afternoon of May 28 was arrested by the police for cracking a joke about having a bomb inside his checked-in luggage. Kuching District Police chief ACP Awang Din Awang Gani, who
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Post-mortem report points to Payal Tadvi’s murder?
MUMBAI: The post-mortem report of Payal Tadvi, who allegedly ended her life after facing “extreme harassment” and casteist remarks, has revealed evidence of a ligature mark on her neck. Under ‘provisional cause of death’, the autopsy report stated ‘evidence of
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Modi to start second term without aide Arun Jaitley
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take his oath of office today along with his ministers. However, he suffered at the start of his second term when key aide and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley opted out of the government.
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Dr M: Malaysia will continue using Huawei technology
TOKYO: Malaysia will continue using Huawei products and is unperturbed by spying allegations levelled against the tech giant. “We are too small to have an impact on the company like Huawei, whose research is far bigger than the whole of
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Debate dare: Does Kit Siang have a problem?
PUCHONG: Pekan MP Datuk Seri Najib Razak took Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang to task for claiming that he chickened out of a debate. “Debate topic proposed by him. He was the one who asked whether I was ready
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Socso advised to extend self-employment scheme to other sectors
PUCHONG: The Human Resources Ministry is recommending that Socso extends the Self-Employment Scheme (SPS) to include farmers, fishermen, hawkers and artistes. Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran said the proposal was to ensure that apart from those with employers, workers in
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Dr M: Let’s have gold based currencies
TOKYO: Malaysia is proposing a new currency based on gold as it is more stable as opposed to the present currency trading which is manipulative, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad . He said that gold can evaluate trading
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Refugees return to Syria for Ramadan holiday
Approximately 44,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Syria so far ahead of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan Bayram, also known as Eid al-Fitr. Wanting to spend the holiday in their homeland, Syrian refugees from all around Turkey come to the
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China accuses US of ‘naked economic terrorism’
BEIJING: China accused the US of ‘naked economic terrorism’ as the communist nation ramps up the rhetoric in their trade war. The world’s top two economies are at loggerheads as trade talks have apparently stalled, with US President Donald Trump
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