5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (768+ words) JAKARTA: A 16-year-old student in Karo regency, North Sumatra, has suffered memory loss, seizures and difficulty speaking after falling ill in a mass food poisoning incident linked to the government’s free nutritious meal programme, raising fresh concerns about food safety…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (400+ words) BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): A London coroner has linked the death of British-Nigerian businessman and social media influencer Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo to genital enlargement injections in Thailand, according to Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper, reporting on an inquest at Inner West…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (563+ words) BERLIN: By the end of 2022, more than 20 children had died taking part in the viral TikTok challenge in the space of a year and a half, according to one report. Four years later and amid widespread debate on introducing social…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (810+ words) JAKARTA: The latest series of food poisoning incidents has put President Prabowo Subianto’s free nutritious meal programme under renewed scrutiny, with cases now being investigated by the National Police and questions mounting over whether recent reforms have addressed the programme’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (268+ words) The nation’s top human rights body urged police to investigate several new outbreaks of food poisoning linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship ­programme to provide free meals to students, which made 2,000 people sick this week. In separate cases across at…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (223+ words) UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- UN humanitarians on Friday warned of the deadly threat posed by explosive ordnance contamination in Syria. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the contamination continues to affect not only where people…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (251+ words) MOSCOW: The world's first mass vaccination of penguins against bird flu is underway in Australia, with around a thousand birds having already received the first dose, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reported on Monday (Aug 24), citing the ABC News. It was the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (672+ words) KUALA LUMPUR: The rise in dual diagnosis cases involving synthetic drug abuse among young Malaysians is turning into a public health and national security crisis, says Datuk Ruslin Jusoh. The warning by the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) director-general comes amid…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (665+ words) EVERY morning and evening, public parks across Kota Baru, Kelantan, come alive with people walking, jogging, cycling or simply spending quality time with their families amid peaceful surroundings. A survey at Taman Perban-daran Tengku Anis, Laman Sejahtera Taman Hijau and…...