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MyDigital, Oracle team up to train 300,000 Malaysians in AI by 2029
KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — MyDigital Corporation will collaborate with Oracle to train 300,000 Malaysians in artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance employability and support career growth by 2029. MyDigital Corporation is the agency driving the implementation of initiatives under Malaysia’s
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Trump orders new tariffs on medicines and metals, aiming to boost US manufacturing
WASHINGTON, April 3 — US President Donald Trump yesterday ordered new tariffs on certain medicines, alongside an overhaul of metal duties, doubling down on his trade agenda a year after unleashing trade wars on virtually all partners. The latest pair of orders
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Ringgit rises alongside Asian currencies on softer US labour market expectations
KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — The ringgit strengthened against the US dollar in early trade on Friday, as markets positioned for a softer US non-farm payrolls (NFP) reading, weighing on the greenback and lending support to regional currencies. At 8 am,
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Malaysia and China ink 26 deals worth RM289m in trade, AI and agriculture at Belt-and-Road dialogue in Ningxia
YINCHUAN (China), April 3 — A total of 26 cooperation projects worth 495 million yuan (about US$72 million; RM289.99 million) were signed during the Sixth Belt and Road China-Malaysia Business Dialogue, which opened on Thursday in Yinchuan, capital of northwest
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Immigration Dept nab three Chinese nationals in KL suspected of using forged MM2H stickers to aid US visa applications
KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — The Immigration Department (JIM) has detained three Chinese nationals for allegedly using fake social visit passes as supporting documents in their applications for visas to the United States. Immigration director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban said that
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Minister vows action after army corporal’s assault leaves ex-commando’s son with brain damage
KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — A brutal assault by an army corporal that left a 24-year-old soldier with brain damage has drawn a vow of firm action from Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. The victim, 24-year-old Muhammad Amirul
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Students, teachers flee as fire engulfs dormitory at JB tahfiz school, no casualties
JOHOR BAHRU, April 3 — Fifteen students and three teachers of Maahad Tahfiz Sains Al Insyirah in Taman Tampoi Utama near here went through an anxious moment when the dormitory and multipurpose hall of the premises were destroyed in a
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Iran and allies strike US, Israel targets as month-long Middle East war shows no sign of easing
TEHRAN, April 3 — Iran and its allies traded fire with Israel and the United States, as Washington-linked assets across the Middle East were targeted alongside civilian infrastructure—with the month-long war today showing little sign of easing. Strikes have increasingly targeted
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Trump gloating over attacks on Iran sparks war crime concerns
WASHINGTON, April 3 — Threatening to destroy Iran’s electricity grid and to reduce the country of 90 million to destitution, US President Donald Trump is shattering precedent by not just accepting but gloating about acts seen as potential war crimes.
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‘AI slop’ floods Middle East war, blurring truth and fiction
WASHINGTON, April 3 — “Is Netanyahu real or AI?” an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six fingers. But the clip was real. Speculation spiralled online that Netanyahu might be dead or
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