Technology

New Honda CEO aims for 100% electric vehicles by 2040

TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co's new chief executive said on Friday the company was aiming to increase its ratio of electric vehicles (EVs) and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to 100% of all sales by 2040.

Athletics

Australian athletes coming on in leaps and bounds before Tokyo

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's success in Olympic track and field quite literally slowed to a walk at the Rio Games but hopes are high for a rebound at Tokyo with a raft of elite women leading the charge.

Football

Exclusive: Seville to be a host city for rescheduled Euro 2020 - source

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish city of Seville is to be named as a host venue for the rescheduled Euro 2020 soccer tournament after Bilbao was dropped, a source close to the decision told Reuters on Friday.

World

Yemen's Houthis say attacked Aramco facility in Jizan

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement launched a drones attack on an Aramco oil facility in the city of Jizan as well as the southern city of Khamis Mushait, a Houthi military spokesman said on Twitter on Friday.

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin falls 7% as cryptos stumble over Biden tax plans

LONDON: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies suffered hefty losses on Friday amid fears that U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to raise capital gains taxes will curb investment in digital assets.

Nation

Merdeka Centre poll: PM's approval rating rises to 67% from 63% in January

PETALING JAYA: Public approval for Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin remains stable at 67% amidst concern over the Covid-19 pandemic, says a recently-concluded national survey of Peninsular Malaysia voters.

Thailand

Thailand and China ready to strengthen vaccine cooperation

China is ready to strengthen vaccine cooperation with Thailand and help the Southeast Asian country completely beat the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has announced.

Video games

HK boy, 13, arrested on suspicion of tricking girls as young as nine into sending nude photos and video

The suspect traded online game weapons for the porn and threatened to make it public unless the girls sent more, police say. Two computers and three mobile phones seized during raid on his home in Kwun Tong.

Technology

Turkey detains 62 people in cryptocurrency trading firm probe - media

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained 62 people in an investigation of a cryptocurrency trading platform provider, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday, after thousands of Turks filed criminal complaints saying they had been scammed.

Nation

Suspect arrested after threatening to kill granny for not giving him money

JOHOR BARU: A 23-year-old jobless man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to murder his grandmother if she would not give him money.

Football

Spurs may need more than League Cup win to keep Kane: Woodgate

(Reuters) - Even if Tottenham Hotspur break their 13-year trophy drought by winning the League Cup on Sunday it might not be enough to satisfy the ambitions of captain Harry Kane, former Spurs defender Jonathan Woodgate said.

Technology

Taiwan's chip industry set for years of growth: minister

Nation

NUTP: Teachers who are close contact of Covid-19 cases need to be given quarantine leave

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) on Friday (April 23) asked Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin to give quarantine leave to teachers who are close contacts of Covid-19 cases.

World

Spain's Interior Minister, left-wing leader get death threat letter with bullets

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grandes-Marlaska and the leader of the left-wing Unidas Podemos party Pablo Iglesias have received a death threat letter with bullets, Iglesias said.

Internet

Xi’s next target in tech crackdown is China’s vast reams of data

As President Xi Jinping targets China’s massive tech giants, the big question now is how he’ll get them to share key data as part of a sweeping plan to transform the world’s second-biggest economy.

AseanPlus News

Singapore leads Asian countries in Energy Transition Index 2021

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has placed Singapore at first position among Asian countries in its Energy Transition Index (ETI) 2021, reported Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

Sabah & Sarawak

African Swine Fever now in Sabah's interior, fresh curbs on movement of swine, pork products

KOTA KINABALU: The first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been detected in an interior district in Sabah since the January outbreak that affected mainly the northern and eastern parts of the state.

Gymnastics

Nagornyy lands first triple back pike in competition

(Reuters) - Russian Nikita Nagornyy performed a triple back pike somersault on the floor exercise at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Basel, Switzerland on Thursday, becoming the first gymnast to perform the element in competition.

World

Australia's Perth city to enter three-day lockdown from midnight

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Western Australia's capital of Perth and the neighbouring Peel region will enter a snap three-day lockdown from midnight on Friday after a man tested positive for COVID-19 and was in the community for a number of days following hotel quarantine.

Aviation

AirAsia partners RinggitPlus to set up one-stop financial marketplace

KUALA LUMPUR: Low-cost airline giant AirAsia Group Bhd has partnered with RinggitPlus, Malaysia's leading financial platform, to set up airasia money, a one-stop financial centre that will be available under AirAsia super app.