Malaysia my second home programme

Malaysia's Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin (Bernama filepix) - A + A KUALA LUMPUR (May 20): Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin will lead the Malaysian delegation to Geneva, Switzerland to attend the upcoming 75th World Health Assembly (WHA75), World Economic Forum (WEF) and 151st Session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board (EB151) from May 22 to 30. The Health Ministry (MOH) in a statement on Friday (May 20) said it is very important for Malaysia to participate in WHA75 and EB151 to ensure that the WHO gives due consideration to the country's public health policy in making any decision. In addition, Malaysia is given the opportunity to state the country's stance in developing the health sector at the national and international levels. “The Malaysian delegation will also have the chance to conduct consultations and discussions with other member countries in the interest of global health. Malaysia's attendance at this event shows … [Read more...] about Khairy heads Malaysian delegation to WHA75 in Geneva, Switzerland

- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (May 20): The launch of the Housing Blueprint 3.0 will enhance the housing agenda for the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) personnel, veterans, as well as their families and ensure their welfare and well-being continue to be protected, said Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He said the blueprint was developed based on three main objectives, namely construction, maintenance and ownership. “It is a continuation of the Housing Blueprint 1.0 that I personally proposed and introduced in 2017, as well as the Housing Blueprint 2.0, launched in 2019. “ATM personnel, veterans and their families can live in comfortable homes and there are four main programmes to be implemented under the Housing Blueprint 3.0,” he told a press conference at the soft launch of the blueprint here on Friday (May 20). Also present were Chief of Defence Force Gen Tan Sri Affendi Buang, Navy chief Admiral Tan Sri Mohd Reza Mohd Sany, Army Chief Gen Tan … [Read more...] about Hishammuddin officiates soft launch of Housing Blueprint 3.0

Bloomberg filepix for illustration purpose only - A + A (May 20): China's crude oil imports from top supplier Saudi Arabia soared 38% in April from a year earlier, hitting the highest monthly volume since May 2020, according to Reuters ' calculations based on official Chinese customs data. Saudi shipments amounted to 8.93 million tonnes last month, equivalent to 2.17 million barrels per day (bpd), according to data from the Chinese General Administration of Customs. The hefty purchases, with trades completed mostly in February, compare with 1.61 million bpd in March and 1.57 million bpd a year earlier. Imports from second-largest supplier Russia rose a more modest 4% last month from a year earlier, with cargoes booked before western governments toughened sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February. Russian oil arrivals in April totalled 6.55 million tonnes, or 1.59 million bpd, data showed, up slightly from 1.5 million bpd in March and … [Read more...] about China’s April Saudi oil imports soar 38% on yr, Russian oil up 4%

- A + A BENGALURU (May 20): Bank Indonesia will wait a few more months to raise rates from a record low despite rising inflation and aggressive moves by the US Federal Reserve, according to a Reuters poll of economists that showed a growing minority expect a hike next month. Although inflation surged to 3.47% in April, the highest in more than four years, it is still within Bank Indonesia's 2%-4% target range, suggesting the central bank is not under immediate pressure to raise interest rates. All but two of 27 economists in the May 12-19 poll expected Bank Indonesia (BI) to hold its benchmark seven-day reverse repurchase rate at a record low 3.50% at its May 24 meeting. Two expected a 25 basis point hike. Nearly one-third of respondents, 8 of 27, said the first rate rise would be in June, and the remaining 17 said it would come at one of the monthly meetings in July-September. "Next month, we expect policymakers to lay the ground for a hawkish pivot, factoring … [Read more...] about Bank Indonesia to pull rates lever in Q3, June move possible

British Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain on Feb 8, 2022. (Reuters filepix by Tom Nicholson) - A + A LONDON (May 20): Britain on Friday said it was launching talks over a free trade deal with Mexico, looking to add services to its current agreement, as well as aiming to increase trade in the financial and digital sectors. Britain and Mexico agreed a continuation trade deal before Britain left the sphere of the European Union, but that arrangement is based on an EU-Mexico trade agreement negotiated over 20 years ago. A free-trade agreement with Mexico would also boost Britain's foreign policy tilt towards the Indo-Pacific. Mexico is a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which Britain wants to join. The free trade area, established in 2018, is now made of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, … [Read more...] about Britain launches free trade deal talks with Mexico

- A + A (May 20): President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the number of cyber attacks on Russia by foreign "state structures" had increased several times over and that Russia must bolster its cyber defences by reducing the use of foreign software and hardware. The websites of many state-owned companies and news websites have suffered sporadic hacking attempts since Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine on Feb 24, often to show information that is at odds with Moscow's official line on the conflict. "Targeted attempts are being made to disable the internet resources of Russia's critical information infrastructure," Putin said, adding that media and financial institutions had been targeted. "Serious attacks have been launched against the official sites of government agencies. Attempts to illegally penetrate the corporate networks of leading Russian companies are much more frequent as well," he said. In a meeting with the Security Council, Putin said that … [Read more...] about Putin promises to bolster Russia’s IT security in face of cyber attacks

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin President and CEO at Volt Active Data, Inc . The future is at the edge. No matter which industry report you put your faith in, the edge computing market is poised to blow up. User expectations, IoT proliferation and 5G latency are converging to test the limits of physics. 5G squeezes the latency possibilities from 4G’s 200 milliseconds to single-digit milliseconds. This squeeze is 5G’s most exciting promise and the single-most-important reason to move computing workloads as close to the action as possible: onto edge sensors and devices or in edge data centers. Consider a healthcare IoT system. It collects patients’ vital data through sensors, analyzes it to spot anomalies, uses machine learning algorithms to make inferences and triggers a notification so caregivers can take appropriate actions in a timely manner. To be useful, all this has to happen in real time (i.e., within single-digit milliseconds). But … [Read more...] about The Power Of Machine Learning At The Edge

Nylah Anderson liked to dance along to TikTok and share the platform's short videos. Then, in early December, TikTok's "Blackout Challenge," which dared people to choke themselves until they almost passed out, allegedly caught 10-year-old Nylah's attention in her personalised TikTok feed. Nylah hung her mother's purse by strapping it to a hanger in the closet of her Chester home. She placed her head between the bag and the shoulder strap, putting pressure on her neck, according to court documents. The girl passed out before she could free herself and by the time her mother found her, Nylah was unconscious. The girl died five days later in a children's hospital. Nylah's mother, Tawainna Anderson, sued TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Inc, in federal court in Philadelphia late last week, accusing the social media platform of being a "dangerously defective" product whose algorithm fed the viral challenge to her daughter's "For You Page," leading to Nylah's death. TikTok's … [Read more...] about 10-year-old girl died doing a TikTok choking ‘challenge’. Her mother is suing the video platform

Laura Modi was sitting in a meeting when Sarah Hardy, her co-founder at the infant formula startup Bobbie , arrived with alarming news. "Very shocked, she says to me, 'The FDA is at the warehouse!'" recalls Modi. It was May 2019: T wo weeks after the launch of Bobbie's pilot . A team of nurses, lactation specialists, and doulas were traversing San Francisco, hand-delivering product to the company's earliest adopters. Bobbie's advisers had warned Modi that at some point they'd be inspected. But she never thought it would come so soon, before the fledgling business had even cracked its shell. At the warehouse, Modi and Hardy encountered two uniformed U.S. Food and Drug Administration agents, armed with clipboards, who had been alerted to Bobbie's launch by early press. The agents reviewed the contents of a box. The labeling, they informed the founders, did not comply with FDA requirements. "Talk about my heart dropping in my stomach," says Modi. To keep Bobbie … [Read more...] about How Infant Formula Startup Bobbie Survived an FDA Crackdown and Recall at Launch