Day: October 3, 2024

KUALA LUMPUR, Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider, has won the Leading Lights Network Energy Efficiency Award for its Energy-Efficient 5G User Plane Function (UPF) solution. Mavenir President, Core Networks, Ashok Khuntia said this award underscores the value of strategic collaborations and the integration of the company’s ‘green by design’ advanced technologies in driving industry-wide progress and sustainability. ‘We have not only demonstrated significant energy savings and performance improvements for 5G core networks but have also set a new standard for energy-efficient network infrastructure,’ he said in a statement. Delivering substantial energy savings, operational efficiency, and enhanced performance for its

IPOH, A 34-year-old Nepali man was arrested following the discovery of a newborn baby girl’s body by the river in Larut, Simpang, Taiping, yesterday. Taiping police chief ACP Mohamad Nasir Ismail, confirmed that the arrest came after the Emergency Department of Taiping Hospital reported the case at about 3.32 am. The hospital had earlier treated a Cambodian woman who had just given birth but claimed her baby had died and did not bring the baby with her. ‘The suspect led the police to the location where the baby’s body was discarded, near the river. ‘Preliminary investigations revealed that the baby

ALOR SETAR, The floods in Kedah have fully recovered after the last temporary evacuation centre (PPS) was closed today. Kedah Civil Defence Force (APM) deputy director, Major (PA) Mohd Suhaimi Mohd Zain said the PPS at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Alor Merah in the Kota Setar district, which opened on Sept 29, closed at 9.30 this morning. “The PPS previously accommodated 89 people from 25 families as of 8 this morning, it was closed after all the victims were allowed to return to their respective homes as the water had receded completely,” he said in a statement here today. Source: BERNAMA

KUALA LUMPUR, Recursion announced the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an investigational new drug (IND) application for a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of REC-1245, a new chemical entity for the treatment of biomarker-enriched solid tumours and lymphoma. According to Recursion in a statement, the Phase 1/2 clinical trial will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and potential monotherapy efficacy of REC-1245, and is expected to initiate in the fourth quarter of this year. Its Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Chris Gibson said: “In under 18 months, leveraging some of our newer chemistry tools, Recursion rapidly

PUTRAJAYA, The Court of Appeal’s three-member panel, in a split decision, has dismissed an appeal by an Orang Asli woman to nullify her conversion to Islam. Justices Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali and Datuk Azhahari Kamal Ramli formed the majority decision while Datuk Wong Kian Kheong dissented. The dissenting judgment was not read in court today, but Justice Wong said he would provide his grounds of judgment to the parties involved later. In delivering the majority’s ruling online today, Justice Azhahari said the Syariah Court is the proper forum to determine the 31-year-old woman’s religious status given that this is