KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 — As every year, thousands of devotees and visitors thronged Batu Caves a few days ahead of the Thaipusam festival. While some had come to enjoy and soak in the atmosphere, many had come to offer prayers and fulfil their vows to avoid the crowd today. Bala Murugan, 39, who was … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — As the vibrant celebration of Thaipusam approaches, Batu Caves Hindu Temple and Kallumalai Temple in Ipoh are gearing up for a grand celebration this Thursday. The anticipation is high, with temple organisers expecting a massive turnout of devotees and tourists similar to last year, when Thaipusam fell on February 5. … Read more
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 — Our Milky Way galaxy’s most common type of star is called a red dwarf — much smaller and less luminous than our sun. These stars — or so it was thought — simply are not big enough to host planets much larger than Earth. But the discovery of a planet at … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 28 — Squid Game: The Challenge, Netflix’s latest entertainment series has got audiences around the world hyped up and tuned in. The new reality competition series inspired by South Korean director Hwang Dong Hyuk’s drama Squid Game, claimed top spot in Netflix’s TV show category as of November 27, based on numbers … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 ― Twitter yesterday suffered a brief but unprecedented outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company’s tech support account said in a tweet, blaming the problem on “unintended consequences” … Read more
BRUSSELS, Feb 17 — TikTok, Twitter, Apple Store, Amazon and several other online platforms have announced user figures in Europe that bring them under stricter EU regulations for policing internet content. The companies published their numbers ahead of a deadline today made compulsory under the new EU Digital Services Act (DSA) that puts internet behemoths … Read more
MARCH 27 — We’ve already seen the Xiaomi 12 series launch both in China and globally too, but there was curiously no Xiaomi 12 Ultra this time round. It’s a little surprising, considering how powerful the previous Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra was especially in the camera department. Well, it seems as though the Chinese giant … Read more
GENEVA: Ukraine's ambassador and diplomats from a wide number of countries staged a walkout on Tuesday as Russia's foreign minister addressed the Conference on Disarmament here. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
The Education Ministry remains adamant that secondary schools will not be used as polling centres during the Johor state election next month.
LONDON: US tech giant Hewlett Packard won its multibillion-dollar fraud case on Friday over its 2011 purchase of British software company Autonomy. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
