JAKARTA: The Indonesian government has urged local health authorities to monitor food establishments and asked parents to be more vigilant after reports that several children were hurt after consuming a type of liquid nitrogen-infused snack. The snack – known locally as chiki ngebul and often…

KUALA LUMPUR: The shortage of eggs in Malaysia was reduced to one million in December last year, Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu said on Tuesday (Jan 17), following the import of the product from foreign countries.  This is compared to the shortage of…

MANILA: Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa and her online media company Rappler were on Wednesday (Jan 18) acquitted of all four charges of tax evasion filed against her, a court said. Ressa, who won the Nobel along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov in…

KUALA LUMPUR: The dismembered body of an unidentified person was found in a black suitcase by members of the public along Malaysia’s North-South Expressway near Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (Jan 17) morning. Sungai Buloh police chief Superintendent Shafa’aton Abu Bakar said that police found the…

DAVOS, Switzerland: China welcomes foreign investment and will continue to open up to the world, its Vice-Premier Liu He said on Tuesday (Jan 17), in an explicit pitch to global leaders in Davos as Beijing works to revive its slowing economy. The visit by China’s…

KATHMANDU: Rescuers used drones and abseiled down a deep gorge on Tuesday (Jan 17) looking for the last missing person from Nepal’s worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including children. Difficult terrain around the 200m gorge and poor…