Wellness

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry will launch a national health screening initiative this July to detect non-communicable diseases (NCD), says Khairy Jamaluddin. The Health Minister said the ministry aims to provide 1.5 million people above the age of 40 who never had health screenings with free health screenings - including fecal occult blood stool testing (FOCB) for … [Read more...] about Khairy: National health screening to be launched in July to detect non-communicable diseases

TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his visiting Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong pledged to work together to preserve regional peace and stability at their summit on Thursday (May 26). Lee, noting that ties with Japan form one of Singapore's most important bilateral relationships in Asia, said at the outset of their … [Read more...] about Singapore, Japan key partners to protect regional peace: Lee and Kishida

Britain’s business secretary has ordered a full national security assessment of the £63 million (US$79 million) acquisition last year of the country’s biggest semiconductor maker by Nexperia, a Dutch subsidiary of China’s Wingtech Technology. The inquiry comes after media reports in April stating the British government would not intervene in the deal following a separate … [Read more...] about UK orders full national security review for Chinese takeover of semiconductor maker Newport Wafer Fab

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 27 (Xinhua): The Brunei government ohas announced that its Early Endemic Phase will end on May 31 (Tuesday), and the guidelines for Covid-19 control measures will be updated beginning in June. As part of Brunei's National Covid-19 Recovery Framework, the country moved to the Early Endemic Phase in December last year, when local infections gradually … [Read more...] about Brunei to end early endemic phase, update Covid-19 guidelines on Tuesday (May 31)

MANILA: Philippines central bank governor Benjamin Diokno was named the nation’s finance secretary by President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Diokno, whose term at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is set to end mid-next year, will succeed Carlos Dominguez in the top finance post, Marcos said in a televised briefing, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report of the … [Read more...] about Central bank’s Diokno named as Philippine finance chief