3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (603+ words) HONG KONG, Sept 14 —Tech firms tumbled today after leaders of companies at the forefront of the AI boom backed calls for a slowdown in development in the sector amid warnings that it could pose a threat to humanity. The equity…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago   (182+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 14 — Amazon said yesterday it is pausing its operations with 21 Air LLC, the company that owned the plane that crashed in Miami last week, killing five people. “Safety has always been our top priority, whether in our own operations…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago   (583+ words) SINGAPORE, Sept 14 — Cambodia and Thailand will face off before international mediators in Singapore this week in a long-standing dispute over valuable maritime resources, the latest spat between the feuding neighbours. Phnom Penh initiated a UN-backed conciliation process at the Permanent…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago   (1033+ words) SEPTEMBER 14 — Digital technology has become part of everyday life in Malaysia. We shop online, make payments through our phones, search for information and communicate with businesses without ever having to leave home. For many younger consumers, this has become so…...

4+ hour, 44+ min ago   (203+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Plantation, healthcare as well as consumer products and services sectors have attracted a combined net foreign inflow of RM263.7 million into Bursa Malaysia last week, according to MBSB Investment Bank Bhd (MBSB IB). It said the plantation sector…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago   (428+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — Bursa Malaysia opened lower on Monday, extending last week’s bearish performance in line with a weaker regional trend, said an analyst. At 9.15 am, the benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) eased 1.11 points, or 0.06 per cent, to…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1033+ words) SEPTEMBER 14 — Digital technology has become part of everyday life in Malaysia. We shop online, make payments through our phones, search for information and communicate with businesses without ever having to leave home. For many younger consumers, this has become so…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (379+ words) PARIS, Sept 14 — The leaders of France and Canada will next week visit France’s North Atlantic territory of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon to underscore their support for national borders in the face of Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions, Paris said yesterday. The US president today…...

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (706+ words) HONG KONG, Sept 14 — Chan Yuk-tong hoped to spend his remaining years in the row of small, blue-brick houses where he was born and raised, but the 71-year-old’s Hong Kong village home will soon be bulldozed to make way for a…...

20+ hour, 2+ min ago   (758+ words) VIENTIANE, Sept 14 — Isolated, under-developed Laos brands itself the “Battery of South-east Asia”, powering its neighbours with dozens of hydroelectric plants, but frequent power outages leave its own people in the dark. Exports of electricity to neighbouring countries including Thailand and…...