BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) — China will take steps to implement the three-year action plan on reforming the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs), according to a conference here on Sunday. The SOEs should become market entities with core competitiveness and push forward the mixed-ownership reform in an active yet prudent manner, said the national teleconference on
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(Reuters) – Mel Solomon loved to sing. He knew the lyrics to entire Broadway musicals and shared them with his granddaughters Zoe and Madeline during their annual summer visits from Brooklyn, New York, to Kansas City, where he was a renowned architect. Even after Alzheimer’s Disease stole most of his memory, Mel sang to his
KAJANG: A motorcyclist died while his wife suffered a broken leg following a collision with a car along the Silk Highway on Saturday (Sept 26). Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Zaid Hassan said the incident occurred at around 12.15am on Saturday. “The motorcyclist was travelling from Seri Kembangan to Balakong while the driver of the
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Crowds protested outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home on Saturday demanding he quit over his handling of COVID-19 – many angered by what they said were government attempts to use lockdown measures to stifle demonstrations. Long lines of cars drove along the main highway to Jerusalem in a protest convoy and
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday that his country’s vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the COVID-19 crisis. “As the largest vaccine-producing country of the world, I want to give one more assurance to the global community today,” Modi said in
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago. Brown, dubbed “the Berlin patient” because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a
KOTA KINABALU: Slightly more than one million registered voters are expected to cast their ballots for a record 447 candidates from 17 parties and Independents vying for 73 seats in the snap state elections called by caretaker chief minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal following an abortive bid by his predecessor Tan Sri Musa Aman
PARIS (Reuters) – The stabbing of two people in Paris’s rue Nicolas-Appert on Friday brought violence back to the street where, five years ago, Islamist militants killed 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two journalists were wounded in Friday’s attack in what Prime Minister Jean Castex said was a symbolic place,
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A referendum next month on legalising recreational cannabis has divided opinion in New Zealand with ruling party politicians staying clear of the contentious issue ahead of a general election they are likely to win. If passed, New Zealand would be only the third country in the world after Uruguay and Canada to
MIRI: Rural longhouse folk in Sarawak will reject anyone who instigates trouble or causes disunity, says Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) chief for Baram division, Dennis Ngau. Ngau, who is Telang Usan state assemblyman, said longhouse folks are wary of outsiders who can stir disharmony even though by tradition they welcome all visitors. “Longhouse folk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Thursday it would provide more than $720 million in humanitarian assistance for the response to the crisis in Syria. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun made the announcement at an event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. He said the money would
CAIRO (Reuters) – In just two months, Egypt’s burgeoning #MeToo movement has exposed sexual assaults, spurred legal reform and emboldened hundreds of abuse victims including celebrities to speak out, sparking a long-overdue debate about gender inequality. Now, rights activists in the conservative country say keeping the social media campaign’s momentum going hinges on taking the
LONDON (Reuters) – The world must combine COVID-19 recovery packages with massive investments in renewable energy and low-carbon infrastructure or it will fail to meet a global warming limit target, a report by leading energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie said on Wednesday. Currently, the world is on track for a 2.8 degrees Celsius to 3C rise
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Firefighters notched a victory in their battle to beat back a massive blaze raging outside Los Angeles, more than doubling containment in the past 24 hours, the U.S. Forest Service said on Wednesday. The Bobcat Fire, which has been burning in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles since Sept.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Wednesday called for a comprehensive solution on Iran, disarming its affiliate Hezbollah in Lebanon, and expressed support for U.S. efforts to start talks between Israel and the Palestinians during his first address to the United Nations General Assembly. He said Iran has exploited a
KOTA KINABALU: Election campaigns in red zone areas in Sabah can still continue, but with some changes to the SOPs. According to the Election Commission, only one or two people are allowed into voters’ houses, while in gatherings for talks, only 30 people are allowed in one location for one event. Everyone in the crowd
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus caseload rose to 705,263 on Tuesday, according to updated data from the health ministry, along with a reported death toll of 74,348. Authorities reported 4,683 new cases along with 651 deaths on Tuesday, but the true figures are likely significantly higher due to little testing. (Reporting by David
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases that risks ballooning to higher levels than were seen during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring if people do not take stringent precautions, health officials said on Monday. “Canada is at a crossroads and individual action to reduce contact rates will
BERLIN: IT experts investigating a cyberattack that paralysed computer systems at a major hospital in western Germany say one of the trails they are following leads to Russia, German media reported on Sept 22. The attack caused the failure of IT systems at Duesseldorf’s University Hospital two weeks ago. A woman who needed urgent admission
KOTA KINABALU (Bernama): Security in Sabah has been stepped up ahead of polling on Saturday (Sept 26) to prevent foreign elements from creating trouble, including committing kidnappings, says Sabah police commissioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali (pic). He said on Tuesday (Sept 22) that police received information two days earlier that elements from a neighbouring country were
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s ruling right-wing coalition looked to be hanging by a thread on Monday, as a government spokesman said he could imagine the largest party in the grouping, Law and Justice (PiS), governing without one of its current partners. PiS leaders held an emergency meeting on Monday about the future of the United
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s rightist bloc has won at least three of seven regions at stake in local elections, but League leader Matteo Salvini looked unlikely to end half a century of centre-left rule in Tuscany, exit polls said on Monday. If confirmed, the result would represent something of a relief for the coalition Democratic
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have determined that it was a crane, and not falling debris from a construction site, that damaged a car during a Sunday evening (Sept 20) incident on Jalan Len San in Cheras. “At around 8.30pm on Sunday on Jalan Len San, an accident occurred between a sedan and another vehicle, believed to
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday will sanction more than two dozen people and entities involved in Iran’s nuclear, missile and conventional arms programs, a senior U.S. official said, putting teeth behind U.N. sanctions on Tehran that Washington argues have resumed despite the opposition of allies and adversaries. Speaking on condition of anonymity,
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia recorded 52 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday (Sept 20), bringing the total number of infections to 10,219 cases. Health Ministry director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said out of the 52 new cases, 40 were locally transmitted involving 26 Malaysians and 14 non-citizens. Sabah recorded the highest number of new cases
PETALING JAYA: Tengku Abdul Aziz Tengku Mohd Hamzah, the brother of Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, also known as Ku Li, died at 3am on Sunday (Sept 20) aged 87 at a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur. Tengku Abdul Aziz was the great-grandson of Sultan Muhammad III of Kelantan. His remains will be brought
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A envelope addressed to the White House contained a substance identified as ricin, a deadly poison, several media outlets reported on Saturday, citing a federal official briefed on the matter. The envelope believed to have come from Canada was intercepted at a government mail center before it arrived at the White House,
GEORGE TOWN: It will take between one and two years for Penang Hill and its surrounding areas to be recognised as a Unesco biosphere reserve, says Datuk Cheok Lay Leng. The Penang Hill Corporation general manager said his team started the whole Unesco biosphere reserve application process about three to four years ago. “We completed
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s parliament session that began this week is likely to be cut short after 30 lawmakers were found infected with the coronavirus, two senior parliament officials said, as the number of cases in the country rose to 5.3 million. The Indian parliament met for the first time in six months on
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign ministry on Friday said there was no evidence to suggest the armed wing of Lebanon’s Hezbollah was storing chemicals to make explosives in France after a senior U.S. official said the group had set up caches in Europe since 2012. Speaking on Thursday, Nathan Sales, the U.S. State Department’s coordinator
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