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SHANGHAI: Jack Ma steps down next week as chairman of Alibaba, but the start-up he built into an online retail behemoth is expected to keep thriving into a new era thanks to a culture of innovation he helped nurture.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Axiata Group is discussing deals with other parties and considering an initial public offering of its tower business, executives said after announcing the collapse of a planned Asian telecoms deal with Norway’s Telenor.

SINGAPORE: For more than five years, the authorities urged a man to get tested for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after learning he had sex with an HIV-positive man.

KUCHING: Noor Asmah Mohamed Moktar loved munching mooncakes ever since she was a teen.

KUANTAN: It is just a matter of time before bauxite mining will resume near here in Pahang.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who arrived here yesterday to attend the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), is set to hold separate bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s government said on Wednesday its decision last month to extend a licence for Australia’s Lynas Corp for processing rare earth minerals aimed to show investors that the Southeast Asian nation was open for business and preserve 600 jobs.

KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low had assured two top officers at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) that Datuk Seri Najib Razak would take care of everything in his bid to convince them to open overseas bank accounts allegedly for political funds, the High Court heard today.

KUALA LUMPUR: Four Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) information technology (IT) officers today lodged police reports denying their involvement in the technical-glitch which hit the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) last month.

KUALA LUMPUR: Recovering the black boxes of downed Malay-sia Airlines Flight MH17 from war-torn eastern Ukraine was a matter of national dignity for the team now nicknamed the “Dozen Persons”.