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Technology
Snap shares jump nearly 30% after Q1 beat
(Reuters) - Shares in Snap soared nearly 30% in thin volume in Frankfurt on Friday after the owner of the photo messaging app beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly revenue and user growth.
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Technology
Alphabet, Microsoft shares jump as investors cheer AI investment
LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft and Google showed investors that heavy artificial intelligence investment can pay off with rising revenue, allaying concerns raised a day earlier by Meta, which said its expensive foray into AI was not immediately paying off.
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Myanmar
Myanmar warlord at centre of battle for key border town
Armed soldiers loyal to a turncoat warlord patrol the streets of southeastern Myanmar's frontier town of Myawaddy, as troops of the ruling junta and rebels jostle for control of the outpost that handles more than $1 billion in border trade every year.
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Arts
Flexing and fine art: Louvre introduces Olympic sport sessions
The Louvre in Paris will host yoga and sports sessions in its galleries as part of a pre-Olympic cultural initiative
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Cycling
Motorcycling-Gresini's Marquez eyes factory bike in 2025
(Reuters) - Six-times MotoGP champion Marc Marquez said he wants to return to racing on a factory bike in 2025 after switching from Honda to Ducati satellite team Gresini Racing ahead of this season.
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Corporate News
Spritzer clarifies mistaken identity in insider trading report
KUALA LUMPUR: Spritzer Bhd has clarified that its managing director, Datuk Lim Kok Boon, was wrongly implicated as an insider trading offender in a report.
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World
Swiss parliamentary committee backs $5.5 billion aid plan for Ukraine
ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss parliamentary committee late on Thursday voted to back a 5 billion Swiss franc ($5.5 billion) aid contribution for Ukraine as part of a broader package aimed at improving neutral Switzerland's defense capabilities.
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What's Your Status?
Let's M.O.V.E. for planetary health
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
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Internet
Rescue pup to meme star: The real-life ‘Dogecoin’ dog
Her fluffy face now frail, Kabosu still flashes the enigmatic smile that made her the go-to meme dog for millennials and inspired a US$23bil (RM109.84bil) cryptocurrency beloved by Elon Musk.
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Corporate News
Berjaya Corp denies involvement in Forest City Casino talks
KUALA LUMPUR: Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp) has denied that its founder Tan Sri Vincent Tan is in talks regarding a casino licence in Forest City, Johor, as reported recently.
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AseanPlus News
Indonesia's Prabowo closes in on parliamentary majority after rival party pledges support
Indonesian president elect Prabowo Subianto received a boost on Thursday after a prominent political party that backed another candidate pledged its support for his administration, moving him a step closer to securing a majority in the new parliament.
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Nation
E-Filing: Deadline to submit tax return forms for non-business taxpayers extended to May 15
PUTRAJAYA: The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) has extended the deadline for non-business taxpayers to submit their Tax Return Form for the Year of Assessment 2023 via e-Filing from April 30 to May 15.
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True Or Not
QuickCheck: Is the dividend rate lower for EPF Account 3?
AFTER the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) announced that it would be introducing the new Account 3 on May 11, some online users have been worried that this new account would impact the dividends they receive.
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Other Sports
Ahead of Olympics, a packed Paris prison braces for crowds of inmates
VILLEPINTE, France (Reuters) - A police crackdown that aims to clear a poor suburb of petty crime and street vendors before the Paris 2024 Olympics is putting pressure on an overcrowded prison operating at almost double its capacity.
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World
South Sudanese comedians find laughs in painful past
JUBA (Reuters) - When Isaac Anthony Lumori launched South Sudan's first weekly comedy show at the height of a civil war in 2014, his performers' quips about different ethnic groups were not always well received.
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Nation
Mum breaks down after being harassed by ah long over son's debts
KUALA LUMPUR: A woman broke down after being persistently harassed by loan sharks over her eldest son's alleged debts.
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India
India votes in second election phase as Modi vs Gandhi contest heats up
India began voting on Friday in the second phase of the world's biggest election, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals raise the pitch of the campaign by focusing on hot-button issues such as religious discrimination, affirmative action and taxes.
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Nation
Kuala Kubu Baharu polls begins with nomination tomorrow
HULU SELANGOR: The Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election will begin tomorrow (April 27) with the nomination process at the Hulu Selangor Multipurpose Hall and District Sports Complex here.
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Economy
Malaysia's PPI higher by 1.6% in March 2024
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures the price changes of goods at the producer level, increased by 1.6 per cent in March 2024 compared with 0.3 per cent in February 2024, said the Statistics Department (DoSM).
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Nation
Minimal short-term impact on house owners from new EPF initiative, says Rehda
PETALING JAYA: The latest initiative by the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to restructure accounts will not have much short-term impact on prospective homeowners, says Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (Rehda) president Datuk NK Tong.