Doctors welcome MOH move to get High Court to review SMC judgment on $100k fine case There was great concern among the medical fraternity that the judgment would lead to doctors dumping an overload of information on patients to protect themselves. READ MORE HERE Record number of motorists keeping car beyond 10 years A record […]

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Paul Stadlen, once a media adviser to former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, has claimed that the Pakatan Harapan government’s move to charge him in absentia is politically motivated. London-based law firm Mishcon de Reya said in statement on Thursday (Feb 21) that Stadlen categorically denied any wrongdoing. […]

SYDNEY (REUTERS) – A fugitive Malaysian policeman convicted of the grisly murder of a Mongolian model has lost a bid for asylum in Australia, where he has been held since 2015, raising the prospect he could be eventually deported. Sirul Azhar Umar and another police officer, Azilah Hadri, were sentenced to death after being found […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Trade talks between the world’s two biggest economies helped European shares rise modestly on Wednesday, while the threat of a blocked merger sank shares in British supermarket Sainsbury’s. Germany’s trade-sensitive DAX led the way with a 0.4 percent gain and the pan-European STOXX 600 rose 0.2 percent after U.S. President Donald Trump […]

SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) – The Cambodian authorities are seeking the owner of a Singapore-registered motorcycle allegedly involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed an elderly man. The incident happened on Feb 7 in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, in the Khan Por Senchey area along National Highway 4. According to local media reports, […]

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Still a bit of a tongue twister even to experts: hard to pronounce and difficult to remember. Many tend to get the sequence of the letters wrong. The CPTPP stands for the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership. As the name speaks for itself, this is a treaty to […]

CANBERRA (XINHUA) – The Australian government has confirmed the first known extinction of a mammal as a result of human-induced climate change. Ms Melissa Price, Australia’s Minister for the Environment, announced that the status of the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent native to Bramble Cay, the northernmost of Australia’s islands, has been changed from […]

SINGAPORE – The interest rates for all Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts will remain unchanged in the second quarter of this year, said the CPF Board and Housing Board (HDB) in a joint statement on Wednesday (Feb 20). This means that the concessionary interest rate for HDB mortgage loans, which is pegged at 0.1 per […]

SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian police on Wednesday (Feb 20) resumed the search two backpackers missing for three days near a beach with rough surf, as hopes dimmed for their rescue. New South Wales Police said the two men, named as 20-year-old Hugo Palmer from England and 21-year-old Erwan Ferrieux from France, went missing near a […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will soon discuss with international banks its plans to use export-credit agencies in other countries to help it finance infrastructure projects, sources familiar with the matter said. Saudi Arabia has embarked on an ambitious economic transformation plan involving infrastructure projects worth billions of dollars, in areas ranging from housing to […]