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STARPICKS
Ready for take-off at MATTA Fair Penang 2024
SOME 300 booths promoting international and domestic travel packages at the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) Fair Penang 2024 were all snapped up even before the registration date closed on April 15.
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True Or Not
QuickCheck: Did kimchi evolve into a carrot dish popular in Russia?
IT can be said that Korean food is known and loved around the world, and that the fermented vegetable dish that is kimchi is much-cherished by those who enjoy the bold, often fiery flavours from the Land of the Morning Calm.
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Nation
218 out of 338 dilapidated school reconstruction projects in Sabah completed, says Fadhlina
KOTA KINABALU: A total of 218 out of 338 projects to reconstruct dilapidated schools in Sabah have been completed to date, says Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek.
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Technology
Netflix to stop reporting subscriber tally as streaming wars cool
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix on Thursday unexpectedly announced that it will stop reporting subscriber numbers each quarter, a decision seen as a sign that years of customer gains in the streaming wars are coming to an end.
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Analyst Reports
Trading ideas: RHB, Axiata, Yinson, Affin, Kimlun, AWC, Pansar, DC Healthcare, AwanBiru, Systech, Auro, Bursa Malaysia, HeiTech Padu, AmFirst REIT and Sin-Kung Logistics
KUALA LUMPUR: Here are the corporate highlights, according to TA Securities Research.
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World
Teenager charged with terrorism over Sydney bishop stabbing
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack.
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Technology
Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams amid AI push
(Reuters) - Alphabet-owned Google said on Thursday it would consolidate teams that focus on building artificial intelligence models across its Research and DeepMind divisions in its latest push to develop its AI portfolio. Google will relocate its Responsible AI teams - which focuses on safe AI development - from Research to DeepMind so that they are closer to where AI models are built and scaled, the company said in a blog post. The move comes amid growing global concerns about AI safety and increasing calls for regulation of the technology. The DeepMind team helped develop Google's most advanced artificial intelligence model, Gemini, which was unveiled late last year and can crunch different forms of information such as video, audio and text. While the rollout of Gemini helped boost Alphabet's share price, it came under fire after inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Google then paused its image generation capabilities.
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World
UK PM Sunak to consult on tougher rules to combat 'sick note culture'
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will look at tightening the rules for long-term sick leave in a bid to reverse a rise in the number of Britons who have permanently dropped out of the workforce.
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World
Weekly storage of natural gas in U.S. increases: EIA
HOUSTON, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 2,333 billion cubic feet in the week ending April 12, a net increase of 50 billion cubic feet from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday.
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Nation
Qatar’s Hamad Airport now best in the world
PETALING JAYA: Qatar’s Hamad International Airport has wrested the title of “World’s Best Airport” from Singapore Changi Airport.
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Indonesia
Shared call for ceasefire
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his successor Prabowo Subianto as Beijing seeks to boost its regional influence.
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Focus
Gloom at Cuba’s revolution
A CROWD swarms the steps of a small state-run market on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, sweating and shouting, jostling for a chance at a once-monthly ration of chicken.
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Focus
Blues for exporters with Red Sea crisis
ATUL Jhunjhunwala, an exporter in India’s eastern city of Kolkata, is tearing his hair out, having just lost another order due to the Red Sea crisis that has jacked up his shipping costs and times.
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Singapore
Scion PM modernised Singapore
Under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore has held its own in an era of globalised finance and cutting-edge tech, while continuing his venerated father’s policy of muzzling free media and snuffing out dissent.
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Japan
Eight people reported injured after southwest Japan quake
Eight people were reported injured after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off southwestern Japan, but there appeared to be no major damage or tsunami.
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Singapore
Apple CEO to meet S’pore leaders to wrap Asia tour
Apple Inc chief executive officer Tim Cook will meet Singapore’s leader at the tail end of his most extensive South-East Asia tour in years, searching for new growth markets and manufacturing locations to offset headwinds in China.
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Badminton
Legends gather at Eiffel Tower to mark 100-day countdown to Olympics
PARIS: Under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday, an extraordinary spectacle attracted onlookers – not a scene from a film, but a real-life gathering of badminton royalty.
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AseanPlus News
Rains wreak regional havoc
Around 70 people have been killed by heavy rains lashing Afghanistan over the past five days, the government’s disaster management department said.
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China
Papua New Guinea on high-level itinerary
THE COUNTRY’S foreign minister is expected to sign an economic cooperation deal on a visit to Papua New Guinea, just days before Australia’s prime minister arrives to mark historical defence ties by walking a famous World War II trail.
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Thailand
Tripling bilateral trade with NZ on the cards
The COUNTRY and New Zealand vowed to boost economic cooperation with an aim to triple two-way trade by 2045, as the latter’s leader visited Thailand for the first time in 11 years.