KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low gave US$9 million to production company Red Granite Pictures (RGP) to fund the blockbuster Hollywood film The Wolf of Wall Street, the High Court was told.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s central bank governor said financial institutions will be required to report their exposure to climate risks and the information it gathers could be used to set regulatory standards in Southeast Asia’s third biggest economy.
NEW YORK: The biggest threat to multilateralism is unilateralism that happens when powerful countries opt to do things their own way, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
NEW YORK: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the current international system is such that there is nothing that the world could do to compel Indonesia to deal with widespread forest fires contributing to the haze situation in parts of Southeast Asia.
NEW YORK: The United Nations and Myanmar government came under fire on Tuesday for their inaction in resolving the Rohingya crisis which has displaced more than a million people in the country.
JAKARTA: While smoke from forest fires in Indonesia often simply obscures visibility with a choking haze, parts of Sumatra island recently witnessed blood red skies due to the interaction of sunlight on particles from smoke in the air.
NEW YORK: Massachusetts on Tuesday officially became the first US state to ban – if temporarily – the sale of all electronic cigarettes, going further than states that only prohibited flavored products.
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has been called to protect job seekers from discrimination under the proposed amendments to the Employment Act 1955, which is expected to be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat next month.