Priceworth gets lift from Innoprise

WITH Sabah’s biggest timber concessionaire set to emerge as its single largest shareholder, loss-making Priceworth International Bhd seems to have found a renewed lease of life.

Malaysia pushes for strict law to police vapes, e-cigarettes

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is planning to introduce strict regulations on the sale and use of electronic cigarettes and vaporisers, health officials said on Tuesday, as countries around the world move to ban devices that have been linked to deaths and youth addiction.

The world’s most-used cryptocurrency isn’t bitcoin

PORTLAND (Bloomberg): What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong.

Tether, not Bitcoin, likely world’s most used cryptocurrency

Lawyers for Huawei CFO detail record requests to prove her rights were violated

TORONTO: Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou detailed a list of emails, notes and other records they are seeking to prove that her rights were violated before her December arrest at Vancouver's airport, according to a court document released on Monday.

Goldman’s 1MDB case in Malaysia to be moved to higher court

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is seeking to move the 1MDB-linked case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to a higher court.

Huawei CFO fighting US extradition says her rights were violated

VANCOUVER: Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returned to a Vancouver court on Tuesday as her lawyers argued again that Canada abused its immigration processes to gather evidence against her, a claim the government says is without an "air of reality."

Canada says officials did not act improperly when arresting Huawei CFO

VANCOUVER: There is no evidence Canadian border officials or police acted improperly when Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was detained and arrested at Vancouver's airport nearly 10 months ago, the attorney general of Canada said in a filing released on Monday.

US states launch antitrust probe of Google, advertising in focus

WASHINGTON: Attorneys general from 48 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico formally opened an antitrust probe on Monday into Alphabet's Google , in a sign of growing government scrutiny of U.S. technology giants.

Attorneys General launch probe of Google

Representing nearly every state, the bipartisan group says the Alphabet unit’s dominance raises troubling concerns