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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia respects India’s decision of not joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) but remains hopeful that the Asean Dialogue Partner country will join the trade pact in the future, said Tan Sri…

PETALING JAYA: Entrepreneurship Development and Cooperatives Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has disputed a report that more than 30,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have closed down since the implementation of movement…

YANGON: The ruling party of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won enough parliamentary seats to form the next government, according to official general election results released on Friday. The latest batch of results from Sunday’s vote…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top adviser, Dominic Cummings, is expected to leave his position by year-end, the BBC reported late on Thursday. Amid heavy speculation that Cummings might resign following the departure of…

PARIS: Thousands of people sought to rent places to hold clandestine parties in France at the end of the summer despite the coronavirus pandemic, Airbnb said Thursday. The platform said it blocked more than 30,500 reservations in France…

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said that he will reserve his stand on whether to support or reject budget 2021, while asserting that the current proposed allocations were not “wholesome” enough to address the…

NEW DELHI: After his 92-year-old grandmother started coughing and her blood oxygen levels plummeted, Varunn Kaushik took her to two top private hospitals in New Delhi on Monday. Neither took her in, even after one of them found her…

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will travel to Tokyo next week to meet his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga against the backdrop of increasing tensions with China. Morrison said Thursday he was “honoured” to be the…

JOHOR: As weary Malaysians struggle to cope with another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Agong’s call for political unity and refusal to entertain bids to grab political power over the last few weeks was a welcome reprieve. It was…

IRELAND: Preliminary data from the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial suggests it provides 90 per cent efficacy at preventing the disease. At the very least, this news will result in a large sigh of relief across the vaccine community.…