Nearly 100 Media Mulia employees to be placed under paid leave programme

Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook has dismissed a recent claim on social media that students were forced to serve alcohol at an old boys’ association reunion and centenary dinner, calling the allegations a politically motivated attack against him. The DAP secretary general, who is also a former student of St Paul’s Institution, claimed the individual who allegedly uploaded the post had been looking for every possible opportunity to attack him. “In the social media post, the...

Police refining investigation in accordance with prosecution's requirements, Halim says.

The PAS assemblyperson passed away yesterday at 50.

Party sec-gen says the matter has been conveyed to Anwar.

Long dubbed an “air-conditioned nation”, Singapore is experimenting with cooling alternatives from chilled beams to “passive displacement” to curb its thirst for energy-guzzling air conditioning. The city state has the highest per-capita air conditioner ownership rate in Southeast Asia, with about 99 per cent of private residences equipped with cooling units. Singapore’s local building sector accounts for one-fifth of its emissions, while cooling itself accounts for 40 to 60 per cent of a...

UPDATED 5.55PM | MALACCA POLLS | It follows MCA chief's debate dare to DAP's Bandar Hilir candidate.

Nassuruddin expresses gratitude, says all problems can be resolved through talks.

For Singaporean flight attendant Chloe Tan Zi Ling, 35, the problem with paper straws is their impracticality. “It softens before we can finish the drink, so we have to gulp it down without a straw,” she said, adding that reusable metal alternatives left an unpleasant taste in her mouth. Her frustration reflects a wider debate over Asia’s shift away from plastic straws, with a recently released South Korean study finding that conventional plastic straws performed better than paper and other...

For over three decades, Dolores Balladares Pelaez has lived and worked in Hong Kong without once returning to the Philippines for Undas, the annual two-day observance honouring the dead. This year, she is arranging prayers from afar for her late father and four siblings, but will once again miss the gathering back home. On Thursday morning, the 56-year-old domestic helper called her mother and niece in Laguna province to discuss hiring a prayer leader to visit the family home. Her sisters-in-law...

The exhibition, entitled Thấu Nữ (Women’s Inner World), will take place  at V-Art Space, in Hà Nội’s Xuân Đỉnh Ward, and run until December 31. It is curated by artist Ngô Kim Khôi.

UPDATED 12.08PM | Law has no citizenship clause, safeguards should apply equally to refugee and migrant children, says Hartini.

Such actions should not be attempted, Syeikh Wazir says.