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SINGAPORE: Oil prices were mixed in Asia Wednesday as dealers await the latest US stockpiles report for clues about demand in the world's top crude consumer.
TOKYO: Prayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat are appearing in Japan as tourism bosses wake up to the demand from Muslim travellers.
KOTA KINABALU: An indigenous dance team from Sabah bagged two gold medals in an international dance competition held in Portugal last week.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah customs officers detained a Chinese woman after she tried to smuggle in syabu worth RM400,300 at the low cost terminal here, on July 6.
SHAH ALAM: Kuala Langat member of parliament Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid became the latest PKR member who would be handed a show cause letter for his statement to the media recently.
BEIJING: US President Barack Obama said the United States is committed to building a “new model” of relations with China that is defined by cooperation and the constructive management of differences.
TOKYO: Torrential rains battered Japan’s Okinawa islands on today as a weakened but still dangerous typhoon, leaving two dead and threatening widespread flooding as it headed for the nation’s main islands.
SAO PAULO: Several buses were set on fire and an electronics store was looted in Sao Paulo late today following Brazil’s crushing World Cup defeat to Germany, police said.
KUALA LUMPUR: Sapura Resources Bhd's shares on Bursa Malaysia went down in early trade on Wednesday after the group refuted market talk that SapuraKencana Petroleum’s wholly-owned subsidiary SapuraKencana Energy Inc would be injected into the firm.
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalan Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera said Tuesday the United States had agreed to temporarily suspend deportation of Central American children caught while attempting to cross the border illegally.
KUALA LUMPUR: Gold futures contracts on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives opened lower this morning with two contract months traded.
KUALA LUMPUR: Share prices on Bursa Malaysia opened lower this morning on profit taking after recording a new all-time high for the second straight day, dealers said.
SYDNEY: A dozen mothers in an asylum-seeker camp have reportedly attempted suicide so their children can be settled in Australia, but Prime Minister Tony Abbott today said he would not be morally blackmailed.
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened lower against the US dollar in early trading today on mild profit-taking, a dealer said.
JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 25 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. As Gaza militants unleashed salvos on cities including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel mobilized forces along the border for a possible ground invasion.