Skills shortage threatens Thailand's nuclear goals

MALACCA POLLS | Residents weigh fresh alternatives against established representation.

Allocation includes RM36.45m for 47 mitigation projects.

Malaysia’s decision to pivot to Turkey for anti-ship missiles after Norway cancelled a procurement deal has offered it a way out of a costly setback, though analysts warn the episode has exposed its vulnerability to foreign export controls and highlighted the need for greater defence autonomy. The planned switch to Turkey’s Roketsan Atmaca missile system for the Malaysian navy’s littoral combat ships (LCS) reflects Kuala Lumpur’s growing defence ties with Ankara, even as questions remain over...

'What else is there to dispute, what else is there to review?'

MALACCA POLLS | Solehin opts for different approach as other candidates resort to the traditional appeal for votes.

Indonesia’s upper house of parliament will pick the country’s new vice-president on December 2, its speaker said on Friday, after the dramatic resignation of Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the president’s deputy and the son of his predecessor. Gibran’s ‌resignation this week, which analysts say could widen the gulf between President Prabowo Subianto and former president Joko Widodo, followed a month of increasing political pressure from lawmakers after Indonesia’s top courts ruled that he had...

Former US envoy insists he never retired from politics.

A scandal involving Nvidia founder Jensen Huang and an alleged Chinese spy is putting Malaysia’s booming data centre industry in Washington’s crosshairs, as US lawmakers demand tighter controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips. Malaysia is among the Southeast Asian economies facing potential fallout from the controversy surrounding Singapore-based Nvidia chip buyer Megaspeed and its Malaysian subsidiary Speedmatrix, amid concerns that American technology may have been diverted to...

Office expresses regret over reporting narrative, rejects racial sentiments being played up.

A gas shop exploded in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, knocking down houses on Bui Van Ba Street in Tan Thuan Ward, formerly District 7, and leaving one person dead and 12 injured.

A gas shop exploded in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, bringing down several houses, leaving two people dead and 12 others injured.

Screeners at South Korea's Incheon International Airport found 19 live 9mm rounds and an ammunition magazine in an American transit passenger's luggage, but police let the traveler fly on to Shanghai.