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BEIJING: BYD on Monday (Mar 17) unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles (EVs) that it said could charge EVs as quickly as it takes to pump gas and announced for...

CHINA’S GROWING DURIAN MARKET Indonesia has set its sights on China's massive appetite for durians, with imports of the pungent fruit valued at nearly US$7 billion last year. It believes...

JAKARTA: More than 500 Indonesians freed from online scam centres in Myanmar will be repatriated via Thailand in the coming days, a senior Indonesian official told AFP on Tuesday (Mar 18)....

HANOI: The bank at the centre of Vietnam's biggest financial fraud has received a central bank bailout amounting to 5 per cent of the nation's 2024 economic output, which a...

Tay Ying isn’t just a foodie who enjoys good eats; she’s also “quite adventurous with different flavour profiles and cuisines”. And, "I’m not picky, either,” she asserted. Every time the...

THE SCAM SYNDICATE CRISIS Certainly, thousands have been lured to scam centres clustered around Thailand’s borders like barnacles around the hull of a ship.  They are usually hard-up, unemployed youth...

Chinese tech tycoon Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, once famously said that it was “a blessing” for workers to be part of the cutthroat 996 work culture and that...

MALAYSIA’S MOST CONGESTED CITY In January, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim officially launched construction of Penang’s Mutiara LRT Line. This nearly 30km line, with 21 stations, is expected to begin...

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump said on Monday (Mar 17) that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would visit the US soon, as trade tensions soar between the world's two largest...

NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS TAKING THE HELM  Former deputy minister of international trade and industry Ong Kian Ming said the polls showed a clear mandate has been given to Loke...