RANAU: The Ranau Police headquarters has set up a tent atop a 100m-high hill in Kampung Paus here to help students take part in home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) sessions. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Despite the movement control order, there is a flurry of activity at digital malls across the country as demand for IT equipment surges. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's office on Sunday said trial lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor will lead Trump's legal team during his Senate impeachment trial. Read full story

(Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday. Read full story

SANTIAGO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The weather front that hit Chile on Sunday has caused flooding, landslides, power outages and other issues that have affected more than 1,000 people, the National Emergency Office (Onemi) reported. Read full story

BOGOTA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- At least nine people have died and several more have been reported missing after two boats capsized on Saturday afternoon off the Pacific coast of Colombia, Mayor Emilsen Angulo of the municipality of Tumaco in the Narino department confirmed on Sunday. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A total of 1,745 new cases of the coronavirus and 98 new deaths were reported in the U.S. San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, according to a report by Bay Area News Group. Read full story

JERUSALEM -- Israel's military chief Aviv Kochavi met with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Commander Stefano Del Col on Sunday to discuss the security situation in southern Lebanon. Read full story

ALGIERS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Algeria on Sunday reported 217 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total infections in the North African country to 107,339. Read full story

WARSAW, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Poland's largest one-day charity event collected over 91 million zloty (24.4 million U.S. dollars), the fundraising organization said on Sunday. Read full story

QUITO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's COVID-19 cases surpassed 250,000 on Sunday after registering 1,049 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to 250,828. Read full story

With the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy S21 on Jan 29, fans of the S-series can expect more as these units now come with Samsung’s proprietary range of chipsets. Read full story

As the pandemic forces us to embrace an online world, experts say we need to be extra careful about our hearing when using headphones. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Yosemite National Park in the U.S. state of California will reopen on Monday to visitors with reservations, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report. Read full story

BRUSSELS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has promised to increase its vaccine supply to the European Union (EU), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday. Read full story

TUNIS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian Health Ministry on Sunday reported 1,417 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to 208,885. Read full story

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel predicted a turnaround in the COVID-19 crisis could be weeks later than previously thought on Sunday as coronavirus variants offset its vaccination drive and a large funeral crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jews defied a five-week-old national lockdown. Read full story

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Warner Bros. Pictures' psychological thriller "The Little Things" led ticket sales at the North American box office with an estimated 4.8 million U.S. dollars from 2,171 locations between Friday and Sunday in its opening weekend, according to studio figures collected by measurement firm Comscore. Read full story

THE HAGUE, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Primary schools in the Netherlands will be fully reopened from Feb. 8, the outgoing government decided on Sunday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten moderate Republican U.S. senators urged Democratic President Joe Biden on Sunday to significantly downsize his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package to win bipartisan support as Democrats in Congress prepared to push ahead with his plan this week. Read full story

CAIRO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon recorded on Sunday 2,139 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections to 301,052; Meanwhile, Israel agreed to provide some 5,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the Palestinian Authority. Read full story

LONDON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The 100-year-old British veteran Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the National Health Service (NHS) last year, has been admitted to hospital with coronavirus, his daughter said Sunday. Read full story

PARIS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- French health authorities on Sunday registered 19,235 new COVID-19 cases, lower than Saturday's 24,392, while the overall coronavirus-related deaths surpassed 76,000. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: The police believe it’s time to raise the current compound of RM1,000 imposed on offen­ders found flouting the standard operating procedure of the movement control order following a spike in Covid-19 cases nationwide. Read full story

JOHOR BARU: The Johor Mentri Besar Office, which is located at the state administrative capital of Kota Iskandar here, will be temporarily closed from today until Feb 2 following a Covid-19 case. Read full story

KOTA BELUD: A school clerk braved the rain and knee-deep floodwaters to deliver home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) materials to students in Kampung Pituru here. Read full story

SUNGAI PETANI: Malaysia has taken another step forward in the fight against the pandemic with the first batch of 62 Malaysians being given the Covid-19 vaccine develop­ed by China’s Institute of Medical Biology Chinese Academy of Medi­cal Sciences (IMBCAMS). Read full story

GEORGE TOWN: I will be heading towards the Year of the Ox as a guinea pig. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Out of 251,101 foreign workers screened for Covid-19 from Dec 1 last year, 4,735 of them have tested positive, says Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Read full story

KLANG: The Selangor government wants the Federal Government to shut down factories that do not divulge the number of Covid-19 ­positive cases among their workers and refuse to cooperate in contact tracing exercises. Read full story

PARIS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in France increased by 24,392, while another 242 people have died in the past 24 hours, according to figures released by health authorities on Saturday. Read full story

BOGOTA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Colombian Ministry of Health confirmed on Saturday that a new variant of the novel coronavirus discovered in Brazil is already circulating in the country. Read full story

Ready for some retro? Platformer Cyber Shadow brings the aesthetics and rage-quit inducing difficulties of 80's gaming to modern consoles. Read full story

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KUALA TERENGGANU (Bernama): Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Bukit Besar here has been closed for 14 days as a teacher and a student have been confirmed positive for Covid-19. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks suffered losses in the volatile week amid concerns over retail trading frenzy and a continued spike in COVID-19 infections. Read full story

TUNIS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian Health Ministry on Saturday reported 1,438 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to 207,468. Read full story

QUITO, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health (MSP) reported 3,092 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday for a total of 249,779, as the country faces exponential daily growth of infections. Read full story

TUNIS (Reuters) - Participants at Libya's U.N.-sponsored peace talks have approved a list of candidates seeking to lead a transitional government that will prepare the North African state for a national election at the end of 2021, the United Nations said. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision to hold off on a third lockdown on Saturday, telling the public he had faith in their ability to rein in COVID-19 with less severe curbs even as a third wave spreads and the vaccine rollout falters. Read full story

HAVANA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Cuba on Saturday set a new COVID-19 daily case record of 910 infections as the government announced quarantine measures for international passengers starting on Feb. 6. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 26 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- A number of cultural and entertainment activities will be held during February in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as part of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, according to the Chinese Consulate General in New York. Read full story

TUNIS, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- A first batch of 93,600 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be acquired in mid-February and over 500,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be provided at the end of February, Hechmi Louzir, director general of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis (IPT) announced Saturday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 26 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Read full story

(Reuters) - Social media company Reddit was experiencing problems on its website on Saturday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. Read full story

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's health ministry approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for domestic inoculation, the first coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the country, the government said on Saturday as it battles its biggest outbreak yet. Read full story

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said on Friday that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca Plc had applied for full regulatory approval, in a positive development for the country's beleaguered vaccine rollout. Read full story

Though a charger is not included when buying the new iPhone 12, do you really need one? Here are some factors to consider. Read full story

NAS, or Network Attached Storage, is a private server for home which can help backup and share photos, streaming videos or music and much more. Read full story

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PETALING JAYA: Many young Malaysians have expressed their apprehension about getting vaccinated against Covid-19 while stressing that they are not “anti-vaxxers” – people who are sceptical about vaccination as a whole. Read full story

KUCHING: The Health Ministry has completed a dry run of its Covid-19 vaccination delivery mechanism, transporting bottles of a saline solution to rural Sarawak to test the logistics and feasibility of the Pfizer vaccine supply chain. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Based on the recent sharp increase in Covid-19 cases, Emeritus Prof Datuk Dr Lam Sai Kit suspects it may be caused by the different Covid-19 variants already in the country. Read full story

PUTRAJAYA: The management of condominiums and apartments can request foreign tenants undergo swab tests but not local residents, says Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Read full story

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PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia recorded its highest number of daily Covid-19 infections with 5,725 cases. Read full story

WARSAW (Reuters) - Several thousand people marched through cities across Poland on Friday in a third day of protests against a near-total ban on abortion since it was put into effect by the conservative government earlier this week. Read full story

BRUSSELS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission granted conditional marketing authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by British company AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Friday, although the bloc seems unlikely to get the amount of doses as agreed for the moment. Read full story

LA PAZ, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Bolivia began on Friday its immunization against COVID-19 with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, which will target healthcare personnel in the country's first stage of national vaccination plan. Read full story

OTTAWA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Prices for products manufactured in Canada, as measured by the Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), increased 1.5 percent in December 2020, according to Statistics Canada on Friday. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-listed Chinese companies traded mostly lower on Friday with eight of the top 10 stocks by weight in the S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index ending the day on a downbeat note. Read full story

CHICAGO, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) agricultural futures rose across the board on Friday, led by wheat. Read full story

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's economy contracted 8.3 percent in 2020 year-on-year, marking its worst setback since the 1930s largely due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, according to preliminary estimates published Friday by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Read full story

HOUSTON, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The number of active drilling rigs in the United States increased by six to 384 rigs this week, down by 406 year on year, according to the weekly data released Friday by Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday as retail trading frenzy rattled investors. Read full story

BRASILIA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's public sector registered a primary deficit of 703 billion reals (128.52 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020, equivalent to 9.49 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and the seventh year in a row of numbers in the red, the Central Bank of Brazil said on Friday. Read full story

Users of Windows 10 S - a version usually for low-cost education devices - can be upgraded to the regular Windows version. But beware, it's a one way change. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for thousands of foreign fighters and mercenaries to immediately leave Libya, with Guterres demanding that they "leave the Libyans alone." Read full story

More than half of the world’s population is now active on social media, or around 4.2 billion people. Read full story

There’s some irony in the fact that Reddit, an online chat community full of gamers, has propelled GameStop Corp to unbelievable levels. After all, video game fans have loved to hate the struggling retailer for decades. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. oil industry is seeking to forge an alliance with the nation's corn growers and biofuel producers to lobby against the Biden administration's push for electric vehicles, but is so far meeting a cool reception, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. Read full story

Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers’ information in 2020 to focus on bigger, more profitable attacks on businesses, according to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. Read full story

Techies flock to Silicon Valley for jobs, weather, great food, art and nightlife, but for some one thing is missing: a home they can afford. Read full story

Italian police on Jan 28 accused a Sicilian woman of “inciting suicide” for an asphyxiation video she posted on TikTok, a week after a child accidentally died in a so-called blackout challenge. Read full story

Optimising the use of social media could be beneficial to the mental health of older adults, while helping them feel less isolated. Read full story

More than half of the world’s population is now active on social media, or around 4.2 billion people. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic) extended Thai­pusam greetings to all Malaysian Hindus and said he hoped the celebrations this year would continue to foster unity and preserve the country’s harmony and prosperity. Read full story

TAIPING: Business owners have been urged to be more considerate to frontliners and staff who work in premises with Covid-19 cases. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: While most Malaysians complied with the first movement control order last March, this time around people have adopted a carefree approach that has not helped reduce the number of Covid-19 cases. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices moved lower on Thursday as soaring COVID-19 infectors continue to spark fears over weaker fuel demand. Read full story

Apple is urging iPhone and iPad users to update their devices to fix security flaws that might have been “actively exploited” by hackers. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-listed Chinese companies traded mostly higher on Thursday with six of the top 10 stocks by weight in the S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index ending the day on an upbeat note. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden made quick work signing a slew of sweeping executive orders targeting climate change that ranged from freezing federal oil and gas leasing to eliminating the fossil fuel industry's lucrative subsidies. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks finished noticeably higher on Thursday, recouping some of the massive losses they suffered in the previous session. Read full story

ATHENS, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Greek twins, Marianna and Sofia Erotokritou, were formally appointed "Ambassadors of Greek Tourism in China" in acknowledgement of their efforts to promote Greece in China, the Greek Tourism Ministry said on Thursday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration believes it is hard to see a way forward for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban unless the militant group meets its commitments under a 2020 deal, although Washington remains committed to the effort, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Read full story

ROME, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Italy's coronavirus indicators appear to have moved into a plateau as the government debates the extent to which it should ease the latest round of restrictions first put in place in December to curb the spread of the virus over the holidays. Read full story

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Home furnishing giant IKEA predicted that the demand for domestic solar panels will increase dramatically in Sweden due to a tax incentive introduced at the turn of the year. Read full story

TUNIS, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Tunisian Presidency on Thursday confirmed that the head of the presidential cabinet was sick after opening a suspicious envelope addressed to Tunisian President Kais Saied. Read full story

Apple is urging iPhone and iPad users to update their devices to fix security flaws that might have been “actively exploited” by hackers. Read full story

Want to hear Dolly Parton reflecting on her career, family, and growing up in rural Tennessee during your daily walk? Then slip on your sneakers and tune in to Apple's freshly launched "Time to Walk" podcast series. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Not wearing face masks properly and a lackadaisical attitude towards physical distancing are contributing to the high number of Covid-19 cases in the country, say health experts. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: A year after Covid-19 struck, Malaysia is fighting hard to find the right balance between stemming the surge in cases and keeping the economy alive. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The National Security Council (NSC) will not be hasty when deciding whether to implement a conditional movement control order, as many factors have to be taken into account, says a source. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The various stimulus packages implemented by the Perikatan Nasional government will help businesses and Malaysians from different backgrounds persevere through the socio-economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, say economic experts. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians believe that the Malaysian Economic and Rakyat’s Protection Assistance Package (Permai) has not only helped relieve the people’s burden during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it can also inspire others to extend a helping hand to those in need. Read full story

PUTRAJAYA: Two localities in Terengganu have been placed under an enhanced movement control order beginning today after 197 Covid-19 cases were detected there, says Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: All public recreational parks should be opened to enable people to exercise but with strict adherence to the SOP, says the Housing and Local Government Minister. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is currently in the 29th spot in the list of countries with the highest number of Covid-19 infections in a two-week period as at Jan 25, according to data from the US-based Johns Hopkins University. Read full story

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s first-ever Covid-19 vaccine trial has kicked off in nine of the country’s hospitals, with 3,000 volunteers taking part in the national study. Read full story

JOHOR BARU: The government should speed up the approval process for furniture manufacturers to set up dormitories for their foreign workers, says the Malaysian Furniture Council. Read full story

In 2020, web users around the world downloaded 218 billion mobile applications on their smartphones, a figure that's up 7% on last year, according to a report. Read full story

SANTIAGO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chile recorded 3,371 infections of COVID-19, as well as 17 deaths, in a day, bringing the total caseload to 709,888, with 18,040 accumulated deaths, the Ministry of Health reported Wednesday. Read full story

HOUSTON, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. southern city of New Orleans will ease some of its COVID-19 restrictions after COVID-19 cases declined for three consecutive weeks, an official said on Wednesday. Read full story

BEIRUT/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces clashed for the third night with protesters in Tripoli angry about a coronavirus lockdown, with witnesses and local media reporting that riot police fired live bullets as protesters tried to storm the city's government building. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has temporarily paused some pending arms sales to U.S. allies in order to review them, a U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday. Read full story

ROME, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amid political turmoil and uncertainty connected to the coronavirus pandemic, economists say predicting Italy's economic performance in the near- or medium-term amounts to a guessing game. Read full story

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Over 1 million people have died from COVID-19 in North and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday. Read full story

CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) agricultural futures closed mixed on Wednesday, with corn and soybean rising and wheat dropping. Read full story

BRUSSELS, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides on Wednesday called on AstraZeneca to live up to its contractual, societal, and moral obligations as the European Union (EU) criticizes the company for not being able to deliver the amount of COVID-19 vaccine as agreed. Read full story

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-listed Chinese companies traded roughly lower on Wednesday with all the top 10 stocks by weight in the S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index ending the day on a downbeat note. Read full story

In 2020, web users around the world downloaded 218 billion mobile applications on their smartphones, a figure that's up 7% on last year, according to a report. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is currently closing distance to Mars at 2.5 kilometers per second, and is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, according to a NASA release on Wednesday. Read full story

Since Joe Biden’s inauguration, Bernie Sanders has been taking social media by storm after a photo of the Democrat Senator attending the event went viral. The buzz shows no sign of waning, and that’s maybe no bad thing, since the former US presidential candidate counts on cashing in on the hype... for the benefit of a nonprofit feeding seniors in Vermont. Read full story

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government was urged to transfer COVID-19 patients abroad on Tuesday as deaths hit a record high and the oxygen supply system of a large hospital near Lisbon partly failed from overuse. Read full story

Years from now when the pandemic’s impact on global business is analysed, it’s likely that the most lucrative change will be how it pushed – or actually shoved – massive markets into the modern e-commerce era. Read full story