Countries in Asia and elsewhere have begun body temperature checks at airports, railway stations and along highways in hopes of catching people carrying a new coronavirus that is believed to have spread from Wuhan in central China and sickened more than 290 people in ...
Malaysia sends back trash, declining to be world's waste bin
Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 predominantly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning Monday that those who want to make the country a global waste bin can "dream on." Shipments of unwanted trash ...
Separated at birth, Hansen's disease victims detail fallout from defunct segregation policies
Rosita Harum said it was "the most precious moment" of her life when she was reunited with her father, a former leprosy patient, after they were separated for 61 years by a Malaysian policy that quarantined people with the disease. Born to ethnic Chinese parents, ...
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical, Japanese maker of Salonpas patch, to set up unit in Malaysia
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co. will set up a subsidiary in Malaysia to independently promote sales of its flagship Salonpas pain-relief patch and other products. The Japanese drugmaker said in a statement last week that its wholly owned subsidiary, Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Malaysia, will be established in October. Hisamitsu ...
Japan eyes tie-up with ASEAN member nations to develop aircraft industry
The government is planning to work with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to promote the development of the aviation industry.
Scrabble casts spell over Asia with Welsh hugs and mustard seeds
Malaysian teenage Scrabble protege Tengku Ariff Shah can spell more English words than most adults in the Western world, but he doesn't always know what they mean. Ariff is among a swath of Asian youngsters who are turning the competitive Scrabble scene on its head ...
Scientists home in on potential treatments for deadly Nipah virus
Scientists working on how to combat a highly infectious and deadly virus called Nipah, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, say they have found around a dozen potential drugs that might be developed to block the disease. The early-stage molecule-screening research could ...
Malaysia has reported its first polio case in 27 years, health authorities said Sunday, announcing a 3-month-old baby had been diagnosed on Borneo island. The Malaysian health ministry's director-general, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said the baby from Tuaran in eastern Sabah state had been admitted into ...
Detentions of Shiite Muslims in Malaysia fuels fears of crackdown
Syed Mohamad was celebrating a key date in the Muslim Shiite calendar in secret when officials burst in and detained him, one of several raids in Malaysia that have set the long-persecuted community on edge. Dozens of Shiites have been rounded up recently in the ...
Hopes shattered for Myanmar's Rohingya refugees who fled to Malaysia
Before he flew to Thailand on a fake Bangladeshi passport and then crossed into Malaysia, Mohammed Imran was one of the most influential Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. He headed an 18,000-strong camp and represented them on the big stage. In late 2017, at the peak ...
Sony to open first Southeast Asian video game studio in Malaysia in 2020
Sony Corp.'s gaming arm will establish its first Southeast Asian video game studio in Malaysia in 2020. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC and the Malaysian government jointly said the studio, named Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., will provide art and animation to develop ...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's first 1MDB trial to proceed
Malaysian ex-leader Najib Razak's first trial linked to the 1MDB scandal will proceed after a judge ruled Monday prosecutors had made a sufficient case, boosting efforts to bring him to justice over the mammoth fraud. Vast sums were plundered from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in ...
