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Christmas traffic surge: LLM forecasts 2.6 million vehicles daily on major highways

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19 -- The Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) expects up to 2.6 million vehicles per day to use the country's major highways during the peak period of this year's Christmas celebratio... Read More


Slanted-eyes gesture by Miss Finland prompts East Asia outrage and fallout at home

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19 -- A social media photo posted by Finland's delegate to last month's Miss Universe pageant has ignited widespread backlash across East Asia, spilling into Finnish politics and ev... Read More


Legal hallucination in AI may undermine justice - Kuek Chee Ying

Kuala Lampur, Dec. 19 -- Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of AI that leverages machine learning and deep learning techniques to generate new content including text, image, audi... Read More


Singapore influencer Eunice Ng probed over alleged dog abuse

Kuala Lampur, Dec. 19 -- SINGAPORE, Dec 19 -Singapore authorities are investigating allegations that influencer Eunice Ng abused her pet dog. The Straits Times reported that in a video allegedly post... Read More


Tokyo's famed Tsukiji Outer Market urges tour groups to avoid December visits - here's why

TOKYO, Dec. 19 -- Tokyo's Tsukiji Outer Market has made an unusual appeal ahead of the year-end rush, asking guided tour groups to refrain from visiting in December as crowds swell in the run-up to Ja... Read More


Reporting, not posters, will decide whether Malaysia's anti-bullying law works - Galvin Lee Kuan Sian

Kuala Lampur, Dec. 19 -- Most schools already know how to say the right things about bullying. We have assemblies. We have posters. We have slogans about kindness. Yet bullying persists because the ... Read More


On your left - Chris Evans is back as Captain America in 'Avengers: Doomsday'

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 -- Captain America is officially reporting for duty again - and Marvel fans just got a jolt of pure nostalgia. Chris Evans, 44, is set to reprise his iconic role as Steve Rogers ... Read More


Overcrowded Selangor, overrepresented Sabah: EC flags voting imbalance

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19 -- "Imagine in Selangor - overcrowded. There are far too many people, but the number of parliamentary seats is small," said Election Commission (EC) deputy chairman Azmi Sharom, ... Read More


TDA fetes 18 government agencies and industry partners for tech transfer, local industry development

PUTRAJAYA, Dec. 19 -- Eighteen government agencies and strategic industry partners have been honoured by the Technology Depository Agency (TDA) for their exceptional contributions to strengthening loc... Read More


From goal machine to speed machine? Vin Diesel teases Cristiano Ronaldo role in 'Fast & Furious' finale

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 -- Cristiano Ronaldo may soon be swapping football boots for fast cars - at least on screen. Vin Diesel has revealed that the Fast & Furious team has written a role for the Portu... Read More