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Malaysia to take legal action against Facebook over harmful posts

Malaysia to take legal action against Facebook over harmful posts

Published by Kyodo NewsMalaysia's internet regulator said Friday it plans to take legal action against Facebook operator Meta Platforms Inc. over harmful posts, claiming its response to requests to remove those about race, royalty, religion and other sensitive...

Malaysia seeks Interpol help to track US comedian over MH370 joke

Malaysia seeks Interpol help to track US comedian over MH370 joke

Published by AFPKuala Lumpur (AFP) - Malaysian police said they asked Interpol on Wednesday to help track down a US comedian after her joke about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 sparked fury and even an apology from Singapore. Jocelyn Chia told the...

Zoom will be local version-only for Chinese users

Zoom will be local version-only for Chinese users

Video-chat service Zoom will stop offering direct services to users based in China, although it will still be accessible through the company’s local partners.Why it matters: Zoom, the US-based company founded by Chinese-born Eric Yuan, has been caught in the...

9 Tips for a More Eco-Responsible Life in Japan

9 Tips for a More Eco-Responsible Life in Japan

Japan offers a fantastic and comfortable lifestyle, with 24-hour convenience stores, easy transit, and vending machines around just about every corner. But Japan also uses an outrageous number of plastics and products that are harmful to the environment.With a few...

US notches 4 mn virus cases, Europe tops 3 mn amid fresh outbreaks

US notches 4 mn virus cases, Europe tops 3 mn amid fresh outbreaks

Washington (AFP) - The coronavirus pandemic hit grim new milestones Thursday, with cases topping four million in the United States and three million in Europe as fresh spikes from Belgium to Tokyo to Melbourne forced new restrictions on citizens. While EU lawmakers...

Israeli firm developing 30-second coronavirus breath test

Israeli firm developing 30-second coronavirus breath test

Misgav (Israel) (AFP) - An Israeli company is developing a coronavirus breathalyser test that gives results in 30 seconds, billing it as a "front line" tool that can help restore a sense of normality during the pandemic.NanoScent, the firm making the test kits, said...

Virus brings two foes together, Japan and China

Virus brings two foes together, Japan and China

Beijing (AFP) - As China faces increasing isolation, with some countries closing off borders over coronavirus fears, an unlikely friend has emerged -- historical arch-foe Japan.After decades of war and animosity, donations and Japanese ballet dancers shouting their...

Breaking news and barriers: South Korea’s first female anchor

Breaking news and barriers: South Korea’s first female anchor

Seoul (AFP) - Under gleamingly bright studio lights, Lee So-jeong reads straight from a teleprompter, rehearsing her lines ahead of the primetime newscast for South Korea's national public broadcaster, KBS.Five times a week, she is beamed into living rooms across the...

Veteran writer KS Maniam mourned by literary community

Veteran writer KS Maniam mourned by literary community

Tributes are pouring in for veteran writer KS Maniam who passed yesterday aged 78 at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.Born as Subramaniam Krishnan in Bedong, Kedah in 1942, he succumbed to cancer of the bile duct.His novels included The Return (1981), In A Far...

Bare-faced robbery: thieves steal 6,000 hygiene masks in Japan

Bare-faced robbery: thieves steal 6,000 hygiene masks in Japan

Tokyo (AFP) - Thieves in Japan have made off with some 6,000 surgical masks from a hospital, with the country facing a mass shortage and a huge price hike online due to the coronavirus.Four boxes containing the face masks disappeared from a locked storage facility at...

Taiwan embraces cute mascots for virus prevention campaign

Taiwan embraces cute mascots for virus prevention campaign

Taipei (AFP) - While China deploys stern communist slogans in its battle against a deadly new coronavirus, democratic Taiwan has embraced cuddly mascots and humour to ease public anxiety and educate on best practices.Images of cute animals have featured in daily...

Love in the time of coronavirus: A quiet Valentine’s Day in China

Love in the time of coronavirus: A quiet Valentine’s Day in China

Beijing (AFP) - It was supposed to be a whirlwind tour of China for Jiang Lanyi's boyfriend: classical gardens in Suzhou, modern art in Shanghai, ice-skating in central Beijing.Instead, the 24-year-old and her Ukrainian partner have spent more than two weeks holed up...

Antarctica registers record temperature of over 20 C

Antarctica registers record temperature of over 20 C

Sao Paulo (AFP) - Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday."We'd never seen a temperature this high...

Kobe Bryant and daughter buried in private ceremony

Kobe Bryant and daughter buried in private ceremony

Los Angeles (AFP) - Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were buried last week near their family home in Newport Beach, California, in a private ceremony, according to death certificates.A death certificate for the basketball legend, who was killed in a helicopter...

Artist: I did not consent to allow NAG to remove artwork

Artist: I did not consent to allow NAG to remove artwork

Updated with Anwar Ibrahim's comment on the matterVisual artist Ahmad Fuad Osman has denied giving consent for the National Art Gallery (NAG) to alter an ongoing exhibition of his work.This comes after the government artspace removed four pieces from his solo show...

Rohingya boat capsize – many were brides being smuggled in

Rohingya boat capsize – many were brides being smuggled in

Many onboard a crowded boat that sank off the coast of Bangladesh yesterday, which killed 15 women and children, were human trafficking victims being smuggled into Malaysia to become brides, international news agencies reported.Seventy of the estimated 130 refugees on...

Reckless driving causes toddler to be flung out of vehicle

Reckless driving causes toddler to be flung out of vehicle

A two-year-old boy miraculously survived after he was flung out of a vehicle he was travelling in with his family in a road crash involving another vehicle on the southbound North-South Expressway near Senawang, on Monday.Negeri Sembilan Traffic Investigation and...