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Xinhua Silk Road: Ice collecting festival kicks off in NE. China’s Harbin

BEIJING, Dec. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — An ice collecting festival kicked off in northeast China’s Harbin on Thursday, marking the beginning of the snow and ice tourism season of the “ice city”. Workers collect ice from the Songhua River in Harbin,

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Playground AI EYES Moves Beyond Smartphones with “Another Eyes”

SINGAPORE, Dec. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Singapore-based global IT company Playground, with hubs in South Korea and Vietnam, is set to unveil ‘AI EYES,’ a groundbreaking innovation in the 2024 wearable device market. Going beyond technological advancements, this premium wearable device

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C.P. Group and Toyota/Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies achieved new milestones towards decarbonization with multi-faceted solutions across energy, data and mobility

A joint partnership by Charoen Pokphand Group (C.P. Group), Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies (CJPT) announced the successful pilot project for biogas-derived hydrogen production in Thailand. C.P. Group plans to use such biogas-derived hydrogen for their truck

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Xinhua Silk Road: Villages in east China’s Jiangxi serve as beacon for global sustainable development practices, says BRISL Director

BEIJING, Dec. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — During a four-day tour in villages of Yichun City, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Yasiru Ranaraja, Director of the Belt & Road Initiative Sri Lanka (BRISL), was immersed in a unique adventure, exploring the harmony

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OIC can’t form military alliance to fight Israel because two-thirds of members too poor

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 — Malaysia’s former foreign minister Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar has poured cold water on a proposal for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to form a military alliance to fight the Zionist government of Israel,

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Suaram says inquests granted to less than half of deaths in custody where detainee’s health condition was cited for demise

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 — Health reasons have been cited as the main cause of death of detainees held by prison, police and immigration authorities in Malaysia this year. But in the span of 10 years, less than 50 per

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Nan Fung Group Launches First SEWIT Report

Integrating Sustainability in Business Operations and Community Engagement Leveraging Innovative Thinking to Pioneer for an Intergenerational Future HONG KONG, Dec. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Nan Fung Group has recently published its inaugural sustainability report titled “SEWIT Report 2022-23: Pioneering for

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Najib’s lawyer claims Bank Negara analyst seconded to MACC has ‘become MACC’

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today suggested that a Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) analyst — who is testifying on the money trail of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds which allegedly

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Young people lifeblood for worldwide ties

BEIJING, Dec. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A report from China Daily: Representatives of young overseas Chinese participate in the 23rd Conference on Overseas Chinese Pioneering and Developing in China held recently in Wuhan, Hubei province. Overseas Chinese have played an

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Court of Appeal upholds ex-tabligh teacher’s 15-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting student 

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 8 — The Court of Appeal today upheld the 15-year jail sentence and 14 strokes of the cane imposed on a former tabligh (religious) teacher for seven counts of committing physical sexual assault on a Year Six student

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