KUANTAN, March 23 — Sultan of Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today granted an audience to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at Istana Abdulaziz here. Also present was Tengku Arif Bendahara Tengku Muhammad Iskandar Ri’ayatuddin Shah. The Prime Minister arrived at the palace at 3.40pm and the meeting lasted about one hour. … Read more
BERLIN, Feb 24 — One of South Korea’s most popular crime action movie series is hoping to make the leap to international success at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday, where its fourth iteration, The Roundup: Punishment, will celebrate its world premiere. The film, which follows the rough-and-tumble detective Ma Seok-do as he takes down an … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19 — His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today granted an audience to members of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to review the handling of cases involving the sovereignty of Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge, at Istana Negara. According to the post on Sultan Ibrahim’s Facebook page, during … Read more
LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 — The Grammys gala opened with electrifying performances today including a revenge fantasy from top nominee and triple winner SZA, as Taylor Swift notched a win and kept her eye on history. Legend Tracy Chapman delivered a moving rendition of her 1988 classic Fast Car with country star Luke Combs, who … Read more
JOHOR BARU, Jan 31 — The Regent of Johor, Tunku Mahkota Ismail granted an audience to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki, in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday evening. It was learnt that the meeting lasted an hour. The matter was announced in a brief post on the official Facebook page of … Read more
PARK CITY (United States), Jan 24 — An audience member was ejected from a Sundance festival event yesterday in a spat over artificial intelligence, triggering a walkout that illustrates the divisions the technology has rapidly wrought in the film industry. AI — a key driver of the recent and devastating Hollywood strikes — has been … Read more
JOHOR BARU, Dec 6 — Johor’s Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar today granted an audience to top-ranking Chinese actress Fan Bingbing. Fan, once among China’s best-paid celebrities and who has a global following, made the courtesy call as part of her engagements at the 34th Singapore International Film Festival. Her audience was facilitated by her Johor-born … Read more
SEOUL, July 2 — A South Korean-made robot made its debut as an orchestra conductor before a sell-out crowd in Seoul on Friday, wowing the audience with a flawless performance in place of a human maestro. Named “EveR 6”, the five-foot-ten-inch-tall (1.8m) robot guided more than 60 musicians of the National Orchestra of Korea who … Read more
Both leaders were summoned following the results of the GE15 that produced a hung Parliament.
At the end of the second quarter, Twitter counted nearly 238 million daily active users on the platform ― a figure overshadowed by the some 1.98 billion claimed by Facebook. ― Reuters file pic Saturday, 29 Oct 2022 11:06 AM MYT SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29 ― Purchased by Elon Musk for US$44 billion (RM207.7 billion), … Read more
