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[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Olympic swimmer Mark Chay, conservation scientist Koh Lian Pin and Security Industry Association Director Joshua Thomas Raj are among the nine New Nominee MPs (NMPs) to be appointed by President Halimah Yacob for a period of two and a half years starting next Thursday (January 21). The …

[ad_1] SEOUL: The South Korean Supreme Court upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye on Thursday (January 14) for bribery and other crimes as it concluded a landmark corruption case that marked a shocking drop in disgrace for the first country of the country. female leader and …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Donald Trump became the first United States president in history to be indicted twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday (January 13) to charge him with inciting the mob attack on Congress last week. The 232-197 approval by the Democratic House of Representatives of a single …

[ad_1] Pinduoduo (PDD) – the third largest e-commerce company in the country after Alibaba (SLIME) and JD.com (JD) – became the target of public outrage after two of its employees died unexpectedly during the Christmas season. First, a worker in her twenties collapsed in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang …

[ad_1] LAS VEGAS: Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire mogul and power broker who built a casino empire that stretched from Las Vegas to China and became a singular force in national and international politics, has died after a long illness, said his wife on Tuesday (January 12). Miriam Adelson and the …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has entered a state of emergency. It will last until Aug. 1 or earlier, depending on the status of coronavirus infections, a palace statement said. The king’s proclamation of the state of emergency on Tuesday morning (January 12) came amid an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: Social platform Parler sued Amazon on Monday (January 11) after the tech giant’s web division forced the conservative network to go offline for failing to monitor incitement to violence. Parler, based in Nevada, applied to a federal court for a restraining order to prevent Amazon Web Services …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The decision by tech companies to clamp down on President Donald Trump’s ability to speak to his supporters through major social media may force him to use more traditional communication methods or more isolated conservative online channels during his last days in office, experts say. Twitter Inc, Facebook …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will tighten COVID-19 restrictions starting on Wednesday (January 13), Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said in a renewed effort to combat the alarming increase in COVID-19 cases in the country. In a televised speech on Monday, Muhyiddin said that five states, including Penang, Selangor, Melaka, Johor, and …

[ad_1] BEIJING – When Alibaba founder Jack Ma criticized the Chinese financial system during a speech at a high-profile forum in October, industry watchers braced themselves. Ant Group, the fintech titan also founded by Ma, was days away from hitting a record $ 37 billion. During the Bund Summit in …