© Bloomberg. An employee arranges genuine bundles of U.S. one-hundred dollar banknotes and Chinese one-hundred yuan in an arranged photograph at the Counterfeit Notes Response Center of KEB Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. China’s factory output and investment slowed somewhat in July, according to data released today, yet the
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© Reuters. Pro-EU supporters attend a joint political rally by Best for Britain and the People’s Vote campaign in London By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – Pro-European Union campaigners in Britain have set out for the first time their preferred path for how parliament could force the government to call a fresh vote on Brexit,
© Reuters. Investing.com – The dollar was on track to snap a three-day losing streak against its rivals Tuesday, shrugging off weak U.S. jobs data as sterling faltered ahead of a UK parliamentary debate on Brexit. The , which measures the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, rose 0.24% to 95.46. The
PETALING JAYA: A former deputy vice-chancellor of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) is expected to assume the president’s post of the university. Islamic finance and banking expert Datuk Dr Mohd Daud Bakar (pic) is likely to take over the post, a source from the Education Ministry said. The decision is currently pending consent from
Kakak by Pitapat Theatre is all set to appear at the International Theatre Festival of Kerala in India later this month. This marks the furthest the Kota Kinabalu, Sabah-based theatre company will travel to since it was founded in 2012 by Negri Sembilan-born Seng Soo Ming, who is an actor, director, playwright and theatre educator. If you
THE 25th staging of the global final of the World Amateur Golfers Championship (WAGC) is set to be held in Sabah from Oct 19 to 26, 2019. Isac Saminathan, managing director of Delta Trend Golf & Leisure Holidays Sdn Bhd, the organisers of the event, confirmed that Sutera Harbour Marina Golf & Country Club, Sabah
On the Giza Plateau outside Cairo, thousands of Egyptians are labouring in the shadow of the pyramids to erect a monument worthy of the pharaohs. The Grand Egyptian Museum has been under construction for well over a decade and is intended to showcase Egypt’s ancient treasures while drawing tourists to help fund its future development.
GENEVA: Geneva justice has turned to the old adage “finders-keepers” to resolve one of the odder cases to hit the Swiss city in recent years. Staff at a cafe and two restaurants found more than 95,000 euros in high-denomination notes in May and June of last year after the owners of the funds tried to
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of RM289mil has been allocated for the Supplementary Food Programme (RMT) next year for schoolchildren from hardcore poor families. Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching (pic) said RM250mil will be used to provide RM2.50 worth of food to pupils in the peninsula while RM3 would be for those in Sabah, Sarawak
KUALA LUMPUR: FGV Holdings Bhd (FGV) is exploring a venture into the paper pulp market, using palm oil wastes. The group, in a filing to the stock exchange on Tuesday, said it had inked an MoU with Hong Kong-listed China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) with the aim of setting up a joint venture or other
LIMKOKWING University of Creative Technology is in negotiations with Pakistan to set up a campus in Islamabad. This follows the university founder and president Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing’s meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan during the latter’s visit last month. Imran Khan made a two-day official visit to Malaysia last month, his first
Ubisoft has announced a new edition of its Far Cry series. Far Cry New Dawn plays 17 years after the end of its predecessor Far Cry 5 and continues the story. In the nuclear weapon-devastated Hope County in the US state of Montana there’s a post-apocalyptic new world order. The survivors face marauding bands and have to fight
© Reuters. Investing.com – The U.S. dollar was on track for weekly gain against its rivals Friday, as strong retail sales data affirmed the U.S. economy remains on a solid footing. The , which measures the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, rose by 0.43% to 97.78. The Commerce Department said on