KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 – When I was a kid, I spent many Saturday mornings at the SS2 morning market with my parents. My mother would go off to buy whatever fresh goods we needed, while I was tasked with idly following my father to the chee cheong fun stall to get breakfast. We usually … Read more
MELAKA, May 1 — The Melaka state government aims to attract around one million tourists from China, with at least a three-night stay in Melaka, during Visit Melaka Year 2024 (TMM 2024). Deputy State Executive Councillor for Tourism, Heritage, Arts, and Culture Datuk Zaidi Attan said last year, the number of Chinese tourists to Melaka … Read more
HONG KONG, April 16 ― China’s Baidu said today its artificial intelligence chatbot “Ernie Bot” has garnered more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain China’s most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasingly fierce competition. The number of users has roughly doubled since the company’s last update in December. The chatbot was released to … Read more
NIAGARA FALLS (Ontario), March 28 — From vintage train rides costing almost US$4,000 (RM18,931) per person to hotel rooms listed at US$1,600 a night, businesses in and around majestic Niagara Falls are preparing to cash in on the April 8 total solar eclipse — with around a million visitors expected. The dramatic waterfall, situated along … Read more
PENDANG, March 24 — More than 7.36 million Malaysian citizens, or 35 per cent of the country’s population, have updated their information in the Central Database Hub (Padu). Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) is optimistic that more individuals who have not yet registered or updated … Read more
KUCHING, March 22 — Sarawak Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said he will not be surprised if Sarawak registers a record 5 million visitor arrivals this year. He said the highest number of visitor arrivals ever recorded was 4.6 million in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic. He … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 ― A total of 4.32 million of 30.08 million Malaysians have registered with the Central Database Hub (Padu) system as of yesterday (March 11). Based on the status uploaded on the Padu official Facebook page, Selangor recorded 650,000 (or 0.65 million) individuals whereas the recordings for the other states were Sarawak … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — A total of 3.61 million students from states in Group B, out of a total of 5.05 million students nationwide, started the 2024/2025 academic school session today. Education director-general Azman Adnan said Group B covers schools in Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Perlis, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan … Read more
THE HAGUE, March 11 — A rare early work by Vincent van Gogh has been sold for a reported several million euros at an art fair in the Netherlands, its previous owner and Dutch media said yesterday. Van Gogh’s “Tete de paysanne a la coiffe blanche”, also known as “Head of an Old Peasant Woman … Read more
SHAH ALAM, March 1 — A total of 2,460,189 job seekers were registered with the MYFutureJobs portal as of December last year, said Human Resources Minister Steven Sim Chee Keong. He said of these, 46,000 of them are persons with disabilities, 106,000 were technical and vocational education and training (TVET) graduates and the rest were … Read more
