Every year during major holidays, we hear stories of East Malaysians lamenting about the exorbitant amounts of money they’ve had to cough up for flight tickets from the Peninsula to East Malaysia. For the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday season though, budget airline AirAsia has announced one-way fixed fares for its flights between both parts…
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Nintendo Switch Mid-Gen Upgrade Was Cancelled Internally
Rumours of a Nintendo Switch Pro spread like wildfire back in 2021, right up until July of that year when the company announced the Switch OLED. Not only was that announcement a major bummer for those looking for a mid-generation upgrade for the handheld console hybrid, the company also shut down Pro variant rumours a…
Maxis Deactivates eSIM Quick Transfer Feature For iPhone
With a history of being the first telco to offer the iPhone to Malaysian consumers back in 2009 through iPhone 3G, it is not far-fetched to think that Maxis has a very close relationship with Apple. Hence, we were not exactly surprised to see the company being the only Malaysian telco that was able to…
The Game Awards Claims Christopher Judge Speech Is A World Record Breaker
Earlier in the month during The Game Awards, voice actor Christopher Judge took the Best Performance award for his role as Kratos in God of War Ragnarok. Via a couple of tweets from its official account, the award show says that Judge’s speech lasted seven minutes and 59 seconds,making it the longest speech in the…
A thrifty celebration this Chinese New Year
PETALING JAYA: Inflation and unstable weather have led to a lower supply of festive goods but there are still abundant choices for Malaysians shopping for Chinese New Year. “The variety is still there for consumers; it’s just that businesses are keeping a smaller inventory this year due to some price increases,” said SME Association of…
Penang to launch free cross-strait bus rides
GEORGE TOWN: Local residents who are grappling with the high cost of living will get some relief as a free bus service between the city on the island and Bukit Mertajam on the mainland will begin Jan 1. T he service, provided by the state government to link those travelling from the Bukit Mertajam bus…
Kelantan cops monitoring possible impact from Thailand floods
KOTA BARU: Kelantan police will monitor the flood situation in Thailand to prepare for the third wave of floods predicted to hit the state soon. Kelantan police chief Datuk Muhamad Zaki Harun said they had also obtained flood updates from the relevant agencies, especially in areas near the Malaysian-Thai border. “We have received information and…
Work on the fundamentals
PETALING JAYA: The country should go back to basics and focus on the agriculture sector and improve the public transport system to tackle the rising cost of living, among other measures, say stakeholders. This is in addition to the government providing subsidies, price controls, and importing more. The most pressing issue at this juncture, they…
LG To Reveal New Phone Camera Module With Optical Zoom At CES
LG left the business of making smartphones back in April of last year. But despite no longer making full devices for itself, it is still making components for such devices and selling them to other players in the market. Recently, the South Korean tech giant has teased what it calls the blandly named “Optical Telephoto…
Alienware Gaming Monitor With 500Hz Display Appears
An image render and specifications belonging to what appears to be an Alienware gaming monitor recently made its way online. The image was posted by the prominent hardware leakster, chi11eddog (@g0ld3nm4ng0), who also says that the alleged monitor will be making its debut at CES 2023. The Alienware monitor, also known by its model name…
MySejahtera Expands Appointments Feature For Klinik Kesihatan Services
The Ministry of Health has announced the expansion of the appointments feature on the MySejahtera app. According to Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa, the new update is to address the long-standing issue of overcrowding and long wait times in government health facilities such as Klinik Kesihatan and public hospitals. Among the services that can be…
Intel B760 Motherboards Arriving 5 January; Will Cost Slightly More Than Last Gen
BoardChannels, a site dedicated to all the news and rumours surrounding the latest and upcoming motherboards, recently suggested that Intel’s upcoming 13th Gen mid-tier B760 motherboards will be arriving on 5 January. Additionally, the site also said that the average pricing of the new boards has increased by around 100 Yuan (~RM61). The site (heads…
Ahmad Zahid convinced unity govt pact will be long-lasting
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (pic) is confident that the cooperation agreement among political parties to establish the unity government will be long-lasting. Ahmad Zahid, who is also Umno president and chairman of Barisan Nasional (BN), said his party agreed to the cooperation as long as it had elements…
Covid-19 Watch: 423 new cases bring total to 5,023,999
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia recorded 423 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday (Dec 27), says the Health Ministry. According to the ministry’s KKMNow portal, 421 of the new Covid-19 infections in the country were local transmissions, while there were 2 imported cases. This brings the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 5,024,422 cases since…
Mission GreenPossible Enhanced Touch n Go NFC Card Pre-Order Now Opens For RM25
Despite the stock shortage, Touch n Go is rolling out another special variant of the NFC-enabled Enhanced TNG card. This time around, the card is being released to support one of the company’s recent CSR programs called Mission GreenPossible. Announced back in late October, the Mission GreenPossible was established through a collaboration with Yayasan Hijau…
HONOR 80 GT Launches With Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen1, 54MP Camera
HONOR has announced yet another device in the 80 series, the 80 GT. The GT seems to be somewhere in the middle between the Pro and vanilla variants of the lineup, in terms of both specs and pricing. The HONOR 80 GT sports a 120Hz 6.67-inch AMOLED display, the same size as the one found…
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Cards Go On Sale In Serbia Ahead Of Launch
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is expected to officially launch on 5 January, which isn’t too far off now. However, just as in the past, some retailers in Eastern Europe just can’t help themselves and have begun selling the GPU a whole week early, and at a rather exorbitant price tag to boot. Images and…
Steam Replay Shows Your PC Gaming Habits For 2022
Spotify first did its Wrapped recap of your music listening habits back in 2015, when it was still called “Year in Music”. Since then it’s been a yearly tradition of the company telling you what you’ve been listening to all year round. Now, Valve has something similar for its own PC games storefront and launcher,…
Premium durians going for a steal
GEORGE TOWN: It’s the right time to eat like a king now where “high-end” durians are concerned. A kilo of Musang King, for example, is being sold for RM30 to RM45 per kilo, compared with last year’s price of RM80 to RM90 a kg. And the wondrous, bittersweet XO variant, not commonly grown in Penang,…
Minimum wage plan delayed for companies with fewer than five workers
PETALING JAYA: There is some breathing space given to companies with fewer than five workers as the implementation of the RM1,500 minimum wage has been deferred to July 2023. It was supposed to come into effect on Jan 1, 2023. ALSO READ: Dashed hopes by days as minimum wage deferred again The decision was made…