Category: General

KUALA LUMPUR, At least five or six countries have asked Malaysia to become an ASEAN space agency, the Senate was told today. In fact, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said those countries also wanted Malaysia to be the satellite launch centre even though the establishment of ASEAN space agency is still in the planning stage. “We (the government) have not yet chosen the state or the place (where the establishment of this space agency) will be, but we will discuss it with the relevant ministries and agencies before it is brought to the Cabinet to decide,” he said in

DAVAO CITY: Physicians here urged the public on Monday to learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to save lives, especially out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. In a press briefing, Dr. April Anne Rivamonte-Delola, a consultant at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), said at least one person in households must know CPR as cardiac arrests may happen at home. She said SPMC recorded 32 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in June and only 22 percent survived. ‘I don’t have the statistics on how many people have undergone CPR but based on the data, around 30 percent have performed

IPOH, Children of all faiths and backgrounds are disproportionately affected by poverty, representing half of those subsisting on less than the bare minimum despite comprising only a third of the global population, said the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Shah. His Royal Highness said that children are also suffering disproportionately in humanitarian crises and conflict situations. There are now four million children in Sudan facing acute malnutrition, while in Ukraine, the United Nations (UN) estimates that 3.5 million children are living under severe to catastrophic levels of need. In Gaza, half of the 1.7 million people displaced from their homes

MANILA: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Monday said it has activated programs to assist other agencies in containing the oil spill from the sunken M/T Terra Nova off the coast of Limay, Bataan. In a statement, Environment Secretary Maria Antonio Yulo-Loyzaga said a survey of the site of the sunken vessel has already been completed as weather conditions improved last week. Yulo-Loyzaga said the DENR, particularly its Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), has implemented necessary measures to determine the extent of the oil spill’s effects. ‘Ang EMB po ang in charge dito sa water quality at air

KUALA LUMPUR, U Mobile Sdn Bhd and Time dotCom Bhd have established a strategic partnership in anticipation of the accelerated deployment of its 5G network under the government’s dual network model. U Mobile said the partnership will see it tap into Time’s extensive fibre backhaul network to prepare for its second 5G network rollout. “Through this collaboration, U Mobile further strengthens its ability to ensure a superior 5G experience that is highly reliable, supports massive capacity and delivers ultra-fast speeds,” the mobile and digital services provider said in a statement today. U Mobile chief technology officer Woon Ooi Yuen said