Новости за 10.04.2024

LONDON: The high concentration in crypto trading on a handful of exchanges, with Binance alone accounting for about half the market, raises concerns about the impact of a failure on the sector, the EU’s securities watchdog said on Wednesday.

KUALA TERENGGANU: An attempt by a group of Vietnamese fishermen to trespass national waters while Muslims were busy preparing to celebrate Aidilfitri failed when it was detected by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), yesterday.

WASHINGTON: The United States and Japan announced a joint partnership to accelerate development and commercialization of nuclear fusion, the U.S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday.

BERLIN: Two suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) group have been arrested in Germany and accused of enslaving and sexually abusing a pair of Yazidi girls in Syria and Iraq, prosecutors said Wednesday.

MOSCOW/ALMATY: Floods gripped cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing over 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg.

IPOH: Three foreign nationals were killed and one injured after the car they were in veered off the road due to a burst tyre before being hit from behind by a lorry at Kilometre 306.1 of the North-South Expressway (PLUS) southbound earlier today.

GEORGE TOWN: Heavy rain, strong winds and a freak storm this afternoon caused several trees to be uprooted here.

NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks tumbled in early trading Wednesday after an unexpectedly lofty inflation reading dimmed the odds for near-term interest rate cuts.

IPOH: A man involved in a police car chase, who refused to stop when ordered and crashed into several other vehicles, was arrested on Sunday (April 7), said Taiping district police chief ACP Mohamad Nasir Ismail.

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April 10: Gold prices slipped from record-high levels on Wednesday as the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields firmed after a stronger-than-expected inflation print softened expectations of an early U.S. rate cut.

Beijing: Eight people were confirmed dead Wednesday after a cargo ship and a fishing boat collided near the southern Chinese island of Hainan a week earlier, state media reported.

KUCHING: The thousands of multiracial guests who turned up at the Hari Raya Aidilfitri open houses of two state leaders today showed that the firebombing of a KK Mart store here has failed to break the unity among people in the state, says PKR Sarawak information chief Senator Abun Sui Anyit.

LONDON/NEW YORK: The yen weakened on Wednesday, pushing the dollar to its highest against the Japanese currency since 1990, with markets alert to any signs of intervention from the Japanese authorities to prop the yen.

KUALA LUMPUR: Men's singles player Lee Zii Jia has hinted that he will play in this year's Thomas Cup in Chengdu, China.

HONG KONG: A fire broke out in a densely populated residential building in Hong Kong's bustling Kowloon district on Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 35 others, the city's hospital authority and fire services said.

WASHINGTON: US consumer inflation continued to accelerate last month, according to US government published Wednesday, reducing the chances of an early interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve.

KUALA LUMPUR: The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Malaysia has unveiled essential travel tips and advisories aimed at ensuring the safety of travellers in conjunction with this Aidilfitri festive season.

SHANGHAI: “World of Warcraft” is returning to China this summer, its developer and local partner said on Wednesday, more than a year after dismayed devotees saw the hugely popular video game and other titles pulled from the market in a contract dispute.

LONDON: Sterling rose on Wednesday against the euro and the dollar ahead of U.S. inflation data later in the day, while traders also focused on a European Central Bank meeting on Thursday and UK economic figures due this week.

NEW DELHI: Tesla chief Elon Musk will visit India this month to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is expected to make an announcement on plans to invest and open a new factory in the country, two sources with direct knowledge said.

WASHINGTON: Global economic growth will reach just 2.8 per cent by 2030, a full percentage point below the historical average, unless major reforms are made to boost productivity and leverage technologies such as artificial intelligence, the IMF said on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Men's doubles Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani pulled off a stunner to reach the second round of the Asian Championships (BAC) on Wednesday.

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday that outside inference could not stop the “family reunion” between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and that there are no issues that cannot be discussed.

KUALA LUMPUR: Men's doubles Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik got their Asian Championships (BAC) campaign off on the right foot on Wednesday.