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BANGKOK — We scoop the rice into our bowls, every grain separate yet without the tell-tale slick of oil. There is a floral – no, it’s more smoky than floral, surely – fragrance. Then we pour cold water on top of the rice. Water perfumed with summer flowers. And then we add ice. What on […]

PETALING JAYA — A video of a building’s glass windows shattering during yesterday’s thunderstorm in Kuala Lumpur has set many social media users on edge. The six-second clip was filmed at the Akademi Etiqa building on Jalan Melaka and shows a group of people scurrying into the lobby for shelter from the heavy rain and […]

PARIS — Stuck at home during the lockdown, you cannot help noticing how slow your phone has become. Don’t despair, you probably don’t need to buy a new one just yet. Here are five tips to breathe new life into an ailing device that is not as nimble as it used to be. 1. Adapt […]

In the wake of a record antitrust fine slapped on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd by China, Mr Jack Ma’s fortunes increased by S$3 billion (US$2.3 billion), Bloomberg reported. The depositary receipts of Alibaba in the US rose by 9.3 per cent on Monday (Apr 12), marking its biggest increase in nearly four years, and causing […]

KUALA LUMPUR — An Indonesian man named his newborn son ‘Dinas Komunikasi Informatika Statistik’ – after the department he works in. Indonesian portal Kompas reported that Slamet ‘Yoga’ Wahyudi, 38, from Brebes Regency, Central Java had come to an agreement with his then pregnant wife, Ririn Linda Tunggal Sari, that he would be allowed to […]

BERKELEY — American researchers have developed an entirely autonomous robot capable of guiding partially and non-sighted humans around obstacles and in confined spaces. In the future, the new invention could provide a robotic alternative to traditional guide dogs for the blind. Drawing on innovative technologies, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United […]

KUALA LUMPUR — A Chihuahua in the US has gone viral on social media thanks to a hilarious adoption post by its rescuer. In her Facebook post, Tyfanee Fortuna said she had been trying to get Prancer adopted for months but to no avail. Describing the two-year-old as neurotic, man-hating, animal-hating and children-hating dog that […]

KUCHING — The Sessions Court here on Wednesday (April 7) sentenced an Indonesian to a total of six months in jail for encroaching on Dered Krian National Park and removing objects of geological interest in the area. Lukas Baidie, 36, pleaded guilty to the two charges read to him by a court interpreter. According to […]

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s “Sugar King” Robert Kuok remains the wealthiest man in Malaysia and even saw his estimated wealth increase to US$12.6 billion (RM51.9 billion) this year amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires List. The 97-year-old Hong Kong-based businessman however saw a rankings slip and is now the world’s 171st […]

KUALA LUMPUR — An Australian art director is using his Covid-19 quarantine time to create cowboy regalia from brown paper bags that contained meals sent to his hotel room. Apart from a ‘horse’, which David Marriott named Russell (as in ‘rustle’), he also created a cowboy attire and styled a poke bowl into a cowboy […]

PETALING JAYA — It was a dramatic end to the Mrs Sri Lanka 2021 pageant when the winner Pushpika De Silva was unceremoniously stripped of her crown. The deed was carried out by last year’s winner Caroline Jurie who duly placed the coveted crown on the first runner-up’s head. In online video footage, Jurie is […]

SINGAPORE – Veteran comedian Mark Lee’s eatery, Nam Heong, met with a two-hour-long queue after announcing its reopening following a long break during the circuit breaker. Nam Heong is popularly known for specialising in dim sum and noodle dishes of Ipoh delicacies. It was in 2019 that Lee decided to bring the diner chain to […]

A Chinese company with a history of dubious claims in its advertisements has found itself in hot water with authorities after it said that new hires would be getting high pay, cars, new homes, as well as be pursued by “beautiful girls or handsome boys” once they became part of its management training programme, the […]

KUALA LUMPUR — K-Pop girl group Blackpink member Lisa is caught in the crossfire over a group of clothing brands that rejected cotton produced in China’s Xinjiang. K-pop entertainment news portal Koreaboo reported that the 24-year-old’s recent cover with Bazaar China had been scrapped from the fashion magazine’s socials. The development was unfortunate for Lisa, […]

PETALING JAYA — A waiter of Ipoh’s Sri Ananda Bahwan restaurant was hailed as ahero after returning a customer’s lost ring. The customer, Kunavathi Paul Raj and her son, had visited the restaurant on Tuesday for breakfast where Nagendran took their orders. She told Malay Mail that while they were heading to their car after […]