KOTA KINABALU: An Indonesian labourer, who is suspected of setting a fire that led to the death of a colleague, has died at the Duchess of Kent Hospital in Sandakan. Beluran OCPD Supt Kasim Musa said the 34-year-old man died after succumbing to severe burn injuries at 5.30pm on Monday (April 19). He said the
ANDERMATT, Switzerland (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic saw a traditional Swiss annual rite of spring, the burning of the Boeoegg snowman, moved to the remote Devil’s Bridge in central Switzerland on Monday to deter crowds, the first time it has taken place outside Zurich. Made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, the Boeoegg’s fiery end
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s first sugar refinery factory and an aquaculture project are set to take off in a year. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) totalling RM235mil between the Sawit Kinabalu Group and two domestic investors here on Monday (April 19). The companies involved were Borneo
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia will hold a Royal Commission to examine suicides among serving and former military personnel, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, bowing to public pressure to find ways to stem a mounting toll. More than 500 have died from suicide since 2001, government data shows, a statistic that has fuelled public
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday he would send federal healthcare workers to help Toronto and the province of Ontario battle a third wave of COVID-19 infections that has forced shutdowns of schools and businesses. “We are mobilizing federal healthcare workers from across government departments to deploy on the front
TAIPEI (Reuters) -A 5.8 magnitude earthquake quickly followed by another at 6.2 struck eastern Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, with no reports of damage. The first quake, which shook buildings in the capital Taipei, had a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles) with its epicentre in Hualien county on Taiwan’s sparsely populated
KOTA KINABALU: The General Operations Force (GOF) have seized 3,000 turtle eggs from a boatman trying to slip into waters near Sandakan in Sabah’s east coast. Sandakan-based GOF Battalion 15 commander Supt Toipi Lamat said the 31-year-old boatman was arrested after his boat was intercepted off Nunuyan Darat in Sandakan at about 8.30pm on Saturday
People participate in a protest to demand an end to anti-Asian violence in New York City on April 4, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] WITH massive protests against Anti-Asian hatred in full swing, people are calling out Redbubble, a Melbourne-based print-on-demand fashion and art company, for promoting products exclusive of Chinese. Entering “I am not Chinese” into its
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Police in cities across Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, on Saturday refused to make random stops greenlighted by the provincial government seeking to impose a stay-at-home order amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. Toronto, the country’s largest city, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor and at least 19 other municipal police forces said they would
WINDSOR, England (AP): Prince Philip’s coffin has been moved from the royal family’s private chapel at Windsor Castle to the castle’s Inner Hall ahead of his funeral Saturday (April 17) afternoon. Royal officials say the coffin is draped in Philip’s personal standard, and topped with his Royal Navy cap and sword and a wreath of
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala will restrict entry to visitors who have recently been to Brazil, the United Kingdom and South Africa in an effort to control a jump in coronavirus cases, President Alejandro Giammattei said on Friday. The measure will go into effect on Saturday and last through April 30, applying to tourists who
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland’s left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party (IA), which has pledged to oppose a large rare-earth mining project, announced a new government coalition on Friday, as it reiterated its strong environmental stance and vowed to combat acute social issues. The Arctic island of 56,000 people has gained international attention since former U.S. President Donald
ISKANDAR PUTERI: Some 15 suspects, including two Singaporeans, have been arrested in a shop here for illegal gambling. Iskandar Puteri OCPD Asst Comm Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the suspects, aged between 30 and 78, were arrested during a raid at about 9pm on Thursday (April 15) in Taman Damai Jaya following a tip-off. “The suspects were
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark on Friday advanced its reopening plan on the back of stable infection rates, allowing indoor serving at restaurants and bars and some football fans to cheer from the stands from April 21, weeks earlier than originally planned. Denmark has avoided a third wave of the COVID-19 epidemic after imposing wide lockdown
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Ivan Duque on Thursday ruled out a prompt reopening of his country’s border with Venezuela, citing a high-level of COVID-19 infections. The 2,219km (1,380-mile) land and water border between the two neighbors – who do not maintain diplomatic relations – has been closed since last year. A new reopening date
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France (Reuters) – Patrick Grasset is one of 100,000 people in France to have died of COVID-19, a milestone reached when the official death toll from the pandemic was updated on Thursday, but his daughter Julie wants him to be remembered as her father, not a statistic. The hardest thing about the pandemic, she
A controversial live stream binge drinking boom in China has attracted millions of fans but has mainstream media seriously alarmed about health impacts. Although the trend appeared a few years ago, the videos in which bloggers drink excessive amounts of alcohol including beer, liquor, wine and spirits, have only gained momentum since the beginning of
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he will begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan to end America’s longest war, rejecting calls to keep forces in place to help resolve that nation’s grinding internal conflict. In a White House speech, Biden set a deadline for withdrawing all 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan by
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – A rocket landed near Erbil airport in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, Kurdish security officials said in a statement, with no immediate reports of casualties. Witnesses said they saw a plume of smoke rising from the area. A U.S.-led military base in the Erbil International Airport vicinity was hit by a
COPENHAGEN/ROME (Reuters) -Europe’s choppy vaccine rollout hit more trouble on Wednesday after U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson delayed its COVID-19 shot and Denmark said it would drop a similar vaccine from AstraZeneca over the risk of blood clotting. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) was due to issue guidance on Johnson & Johnson later on Wednesday
(Reuters) – Opponents of military rule in Myanmar splashed the colour red on Wednesday, the second day of the traditional new year holiday, in the latest phase of their campaign to restore democracy. Activists called for what they dubbed a bloody paint strike and people responded with red smeared on roads, on signs outside government
(Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth returned to royal duties on Tuesday, four days after the death of her husband, Prince Philip, in an event to mark the retirement of her household’s most senior official, PA Media reported. The queen hosted a ceremony as the Earl Peel stepped down as Lord Chamberlain, the report added. Philip,
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has detained an academic on suspicion of state treason for allegedly passing secrets to a NATO country, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. Valery Golubkin, a professor who works at a Moscow institute studying aerodynamics, was accused of handing over secrets in a case involving an arrested physicist, Anatoly Gubanov,
SINGAPORE: Police have uncovered a new scam in which delivery personnel from parcel and food delivery companies are the targets. Under this scam variant, the victims would first receive a cash-on-delivery order via their company’s delivery app, the police said in a statement on Tuesday (April 13). On the pretext of making payment for the
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to release into the sea more than a million tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station, it said on Tuesday. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (Tepco) will begun pumping out water in about two years after treatment in a process that will take decades
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey and Libya were committed to a 2019 maritime demarcation accord in the eastern Mediterranean, after meeting Libya’s Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh in Ankara. “The maritime accord signed between Turkey and Libya secures national interests and future of both countries…We confirmed our determination on
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Five priests and two nuns were kidnapped in Haiti on Sunday, a Catholic priest said, with two French citizens among the hostages in the Caribbean nation increasingly riven by kidnappings and violent crime. The clergy members were kidnapped in the commune of Croix-des-Bouquets, northeast of the capital Port-au-Prince, said Father Gilbert Peltrop,
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India reported a record 168,912 COVID-19 infections overnight, data from the health ministry showed on Monday, overtaking Brazil to become the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus. India’s overall tally reached 13.53 million, surpassing Brazil’s 13.45 million cases, according to data compiled by Reuters. The United States led the global
LONDON (Reuters) – England’s shops, hairdressers, gyms and pub gardens will reopen on Monday in what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said was a “major step” towards freedom from the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of businesses have been closed since early January when England entered a third lockdown to stem surging infections
MELAKA: Five teachers and several pupils of SRJK (C) Bukit Beruang here have been asked to go on 10-day quarantine after one Primary Three pupils was confirmed Covid-19 positive. The schools’ Parents and Teachers Association President Datuk Ronald Gan said the quarantine order was issued by state Health Department. “The pupil was from the Class
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