KUALA LUMPUR: The withdrawal of BlackRock's investment from Malaysia, if it happens, will have implications and negative impacts on efforts to realise the country's investment agenda, said Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz.
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Nine astronauts aboard the International Space Station climbed into their respective spacecraft to take refuge from potential impacts with space debris after a dead Russian spacecraft was observed fragmenting in low Earth orbit.
While making empty pledges of minor social reforms, the New Popular Front endorses military escalation against Russia and calls to strengthen the military police and intelligence services.
A new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces has been appointed.
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Shrikant Chouhan at Kotak Securities anticipates potential profit booking at higher levels but suggests buying opportunities if Nifty retreats to 23,775-23,750/78,300-78,200 levels
Colombo (AFP) June 27, 2024
Sri Lanka's bilateral lenders who agreed to restructure close to $6 billion in loans have demanded "comparability of treatment" with other creditors, including China.
The Official Creditor Committee (OCC), led by Japan, France and India, have requested details of Colombo's other debt deals, a statement seen by AFP on Thursday read.
The grouping agreed in Paris on Wednesday to restructure
Washington (AFP) June 26, 2024
All 31 big US banks have passed the Federal Reserve's annual "stress test" designed to assess how well they would fare in a major financial crisis, the US central bank said Wednesday, while warning that losses would be higher than last year.
The stress test was broadly similar to last year, the Fed said in a statement, and modeled a severe global recession which caused a 40 percent decline i
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 27, 2024
Malaysia has seized 106 containers of dangerous electronic waste over the last three months and busted an illegal waste import syndicate after a tip-off from a watchdog group, a minister said.
Tens of millions of tons of e-waste are produced globally every year, and many discarded devices and appliances can leak heavy metals, plastics and other toxic chemicals.
Many countries, including
Paris (AFP) June 26, 2024
A pioneering internet messaging service that once boasted 100 million accounts has shut down, a message on the Russian-owned ICQ website said Wednesday.
ICQ - styled to sound like "I seek you" - was developed by a group of Israeli programmers in 1996 as a way for users to text chat in real-time, a novelty in the mid-1990s.
Early internet giant AOL snapped it up in 1998 and it grew into
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Dark energy - a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate - was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle causing the expansion.
Pushing the boundaries of this search, University of California, Berkeley physicists have now built the most precise experiment yet to look for minor deviations from the acce
Vatican City (AFP) June 26, 2024
Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to install a solar plant that will provide electricity to the entire city state, as the pontiff does his bit to tackle climate change.
Francis, a longtime advocate of environmental protection, issued an official letter published Wednesday demanding the establishment of an "agrivoltaic" plant in Santa Maria di Galeria, an extraterritorial area of Vatican l
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Collaborations with private, non-federal partners through Space Act Agreements are a key component in the work done by NASA's Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT). A collaboration with International Business Machines (IBM) has produced INDUS, a comprehensive suite of large language models (LLMs) tailored for the domains of Earth science, biological and physical sciences
Aberdeen, United Kingdom (AFP) June 27, 2024
In Europe's oil and gas "capital", Aberdeen, voters are apprehensive about Labour's plans for combatting climate change if the opposition party wins next month's UK general election as expected.
Labour scaled back its green investment pledges under pressure from the ruling Conservatives about how it would fund them, but still promises to make Britain a "clean energy superpower".
The spee
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
A minor adjustment can lead to significant advancements, as demonstrated by researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). The team developed a material known as "spin-orbit torque (SOT)," gaining attention in the field of next-generation DRAM memory.
Led by Professor Daesu Lee and PhD candidate Yongjoo Jo from the Department of Physics, alongside Professor Si-Young
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Framatome has obtained financial support from the European Union to advance the development and supply of a completely sovereign European fuel for VVER pressurized water reactors in Europe.
The funding, part of the Euratom Research and Training Programme, will provide EUR 10 million to the Framatome Safe and Alternative VVER European Project - known as the "SAVE" project - for VVER 440 fue
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Last year in Woburn, Massachusetts, a power line was deployed across a 100-foot stretch of land. Passersby wouldn't have found much interesting about the installation: The line was supported by standard utility poles, the likes of which most of us have driven by millions of times. In fact, the familiarity of the sight is a key part of the technology's promise.
The lines are designed to tra
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) June 25, 2024
German airline giant Lufthansa said Tuesday it would add an environmental charge of up to 72 euros ($77) to fares in Europe to cover the cost of increasing EU climate regulations.
The extra cost will be added to all flights sold and operated by the group departing from EU countries as well as Britain, Norway and Switzerland, it said in a statement.
It will apply to flights from January
San Francisco (AFP) June 25, 2024
The Google-owned Waymo robotaxi service on Tuesday became available to anyone in San Francisco interested in hailing a driverless ride.
Waymo has been cautiously expanding its robotaxi service, access to which had thus far been available on an invitation-only basis.
"With tens of thousands of weekly trips, our Waymo One service provides safe, sustainable, and reliable transportation to l
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Atmospheric scientists are eager to analyze the air enclosed with each rock and soil sample collected by NASA's Perseverance rover, viewing it as a treasure trove for atmospheric studies.
With each rock core sealed in its titanium sample tubes by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, atmospheric scientists find themselves increasingly excited. These samples, which will be delivered to Earth as p
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
The reentry capsule of the Chang'e 6 mission was opened in Beijing on Wednesday afternoon, reported China Central Television.
The capsule was transported to Beijing earlier on Wednesday morning by airplane and subsequently taken to the China Academy of Space Technology, where it was designed and constructed.
During a brief ceremony at the academy on Wednesday afternoon, engineers ope
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
A detailed analysis of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission, has unveiled significant discoveries.
The OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Team found that Bennu contains the primary components that formed our solar system. The dust from Bennu is rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, essential for life. The sam
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread climatic shift that, among other things, led to the abrupt reversal of the Earth's warming trend and into an anomalous near-glacial period called the Younger Dryas.
Now, UC Santa Barbara emeritu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Scientists have eagerly anticipated the analysis of the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer) mission since it arrived on Earth last fall. Researchers hoped this material would reveal secrets of the solar system's past and the prebiotic chemistry that could
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
After six months of diligent effort, the SHERLOC instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is operational again, enabling the rover to continue its search for ancient microbial life.
The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument recently analyzed a rock target with its spectrometer and camera for the first time since enco
