Malaysia’s Health Ministry cracks down on online promotion, sales of vapes, smoking products
The operation focuses on the manufacturing, distribution and sale of all types of smoking products.
The operation focuses on the manufacturing, distribution and sale of all types of smoking products.
Abhijeet Dipke has called for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
NEW DELHI, June 1 - The founder of an online Indian youth group that has amassed millions of followers in days said on Monday he plans to take his movement on to the streets with a protest against the education minister and in a show of dissent against Prime Minister Narendra
TOKYO, June 1 - The Chinese navy was spotted conducting aircraft carrier drills in the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines last week, Japan's defence ministry said in a bulletin on Monday.
ATHENS, June 1 - Shipping executives meeting in Athens on Monday said that any peace deal worked out between the United States and Iran would need to offer clear rules allowing vessels to resume normal business via the Strait of Hormuz.
Investors have spent the last three years asking who will build artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia built the chips, Microsoft built the platforms, Amazon, Google and Meta built the infrastructure. Investors rewarded them accordingly, creating trillions of dollars in market
Perception grows that cases are less about graft, and more on policy or business decisions.
Johor last went to the polls in March 2022.
The 16th Johor state elections must be held by Jul 31, and it will be scheduled at the discretion of the Election Commission.
Senator Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada is the first sitting lawmaker to be arrested over the corruption scandal.
The operation followed public complaints about activities believed to deviate from Islamic teachings.
DUBAI, June 1 - Iran on Monday blamed the slow pace of efforts to end the U.S.-Iran conflict on a lack of trust, contradictory positions from Washington and continued Israeli attacks in the region.
He is accused of receiving illicit payouts as part of an infrastructure scandal.
MANILA, June 1 - A Philippine senator who is the son of a former president surrendered to police on Monday after a court ordered his arrest over a charge that he received illicit payouts as part of an infrastructure scandal that sparked public protests last year.
Admiral Samuel Paparo commands USINDOPACOM, home to over 300,000 sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines in an area of operations extending from the US west coast to India. Paparo also has the clearest sense of the Chinese threat of any USINDOPACOM commander since Admiral Robert
'Ghost' merchants often operate out of residential buildings and are accused of unsanitary conditions.
A recent poll showed that the One Nation party is more popular than the ruling Labor Party.
China said the US is using the pretext of reciprocity to “politically suppress” the Xinhua reporter.
BEIJING, June 1 - China firmly opposes the \"suppression\" of a reporter for the official Xinhua news agency who is based in the United States, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
He is believed to have stopped in the emergency lane due to mechanical problems.
Cheng Li-wun said she hopes her party can play a key role in regional peace efforts.
SEOUL, June 1 - A semiconductor factory operated by SK Hynix suffered a fluorine gas leak on Monday, affecting some workers at the facility in South Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing a fire official.
I (Adam) am chatting with the “Apostle Stephen”, an online chatbot created by the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a church founded in Nigeria in the 1950s with a growing global following. He is, to be honest, a bit pushy for an apostle. In my conversation with Apostle
TAIPEI, June 1 - Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun said on Monday that she would be \"very willing\" to meet U.S. President Donald Trump when she visits the U.S. this month.
The convention attracted a diverse crowd of enthusiasts, many arriving in elaborate costumes inspired by their favourite characters.
Beyond statues, Indians are buying the warrior king's merchandise, from T-shirts to wristwatches.
JEURSALEM, June 1 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered the military to attack targets in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.
Dozens of officials will patrol world-famous Shibuya as Japan responds to the impacts of overtourism.
The most consequential Indo-Pacific development last week may not have been the speeches delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. More significant were the decisions announced days earlier at the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi, where India, Japan,
June 1 - The unexplained detonation of explosives stored by one of Myanmar's rebel armies has left at least 55 dead as the search for survivors continued amid widespread devastation at the site, witnesses said on Monday.
The technology giant's boss Jensen Huang called the move the "reinvention of the computer".
About 40 stations and commercial buildings in Japan have used the system to prevent suicide.
SEOUL, June 1 - Five people have died and two others were injured on Monday after an explosion and fire on a South Korean production line for rocket propellant at a factory operated by Hanwha Aerospace in the city of Daejeon, officials said.
The AI giant’s new RTX Spark Superchip will be in laptops and desktop computers by September.
The building collapsed before dawn on May 24, trapping workers and damaging nearby establishments.
For a country born out of a bloody partition from Pakistan in 1971, political transition in Bangladesh has rarely been a peaceful affair. The assassination of President Ziaur Rahman on May 30, 1981, at a government circuit house in the port city of Chattogram, followed a
On the evening of April 26, the Egyptian merchant vessel Sward was hijacked by armed men a few miles off the Somali coast. It was steered towards an anchorage near the port of Garacad in Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in north-eastern Somalia. Over the following days,
China has created an ecosystem of more than 40 specialist labs that produce cutting-edge research.
June 1 - Every year, several hundred young adults head to the steppes of northern China to learn about rare earths at schools like the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology.
It marks the former junta chief's first foreign trip since becoming president after a widely criticised election.
President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to end the war with Iran has taken an unexpected turn. Instead of focusing only on a ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program, Trump now appears to be linking any broader peace settlement to Arab and
Primary support for One Nation rose 4 percentage points to 31 per cent from a month earlier.
SYDNEY, June 1 - Australia's far-right populist party One Nation overtook the ruling Labor party in a national opinion poll for the first time, buoyed by voter discontent over the centre-left government's recent budget measures.
BEIJING, June 1 - China's Coast Guard on Monday said it had conducted \"law enforcement\" patrols in Taiwan's eastern waters in response to Japan and the Philippines' plans to launch maritime border delimitation talks, which overlap with areas China claims.