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Several dive sites at marine parks in Malaysia including the top diving destinations in the world — Pulau Tioman in Pahang and Pulau Redang in Te­­rengganu – have been temporarily closed due t...

For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words - it is worth one billion page views a day. The search giant revealed the numbers as it announced a major revamp of its image search. Som...

Regularly using a mobile phone may increase the risk of tinnitus, which involves constant ringing or buzzing in the ear, a small study suggests. Austrian researchers recruited 100 people with the ...

A web hosting company has said it shut down a blogging platform that was home to over 70,000 bloggers because a "link to terrorist material" and an al-Qaeda "hit list" was posted to the site. Burs...

China is satisfied that U.S. Internet giant Google Inc is complying with Chinese laws after it tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page, a senior official said on Tuesday. The...

Those probably were not UFOs that hovered over China recently, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyst said. The images of the UFOs have caused quite a stir in China and on blogs around th...

A vaginal gel has significantly cut the rate of women contracting HIV from infected partners in an experiment in South Africa, researchers said. They said the gel, containing Aids drug tenofovir, ...

With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world. In a t...

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is buying Motorola Inc's telecom network equipment business, boosting its position in North America and taking number two spot in the cut-throat mobile gear market. Th...

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc said on Monday it aimed to raise shipments of 3D notebook computers by 30 percent in 2011, as it makes a huge bet on booming sales of 3D products led by televisions....

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday that it has received no significant complaints related to smartphone signal reception after Apple said the issue was shared by the entire smartphone industry. ...

Lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain damaged and overall hopeless are all labels that have been given to China's so-called post-90s generation, or those who were born after 1990 who are now m...

It is one of the ironies of corporate life that the higher we climb, the less connected we are to the ordinary people. Yet if you run a company that sells goods or services to the general public, ...

Traditional flu jabs could be rendered obsolete by a hi-tech skin patch which delivers vaccines painlessly, say US researchers. The patch has hundreds of microscopic needles which dissolve into th...

Doctors are advising football fans who went to the World Cup in South Africa to check their HIV status if they had unprotected sex on their trip. Up to 25,000 England fans recently returned from S...

Photos taken by a mountaineer on Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken in 1921 have revealed an "alarming" ice loss. The Asia Society (AS) arranged for the pictures to be ta...

Apple is offering a free case to every owner of its iPhone 4. Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled the offer at a press conference called to tackle the ongoing speculation about the iPhone 4's antenna p...

Teh tarik - Malaysia's most popular drink, should only cost an additional 1.25 sen a glass following the 25 sen per kilogram upward price adjustment for sugar. The new teh tarik price taking into...

China's press watchdog has threatened to shut down more than 120 websites offering pornographic fiction, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. An official with the General Administ...

Apple Inc has called a surprise press conference for Friday to talk about the iPhone 4, as the company continues to deal with fallout from reported reception problems on its popular smartphone. Ap...

Researchers have discovered the skull of a 29 million-year-old animal that could be a common ancestor of Old World monkeys and apes, including humans. It indicates that apes and Old World monkeys ...

Three protein samples produced by a local scientist will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard the Russian Soyuz spaceship this September. The research findings of Prof Dr Raja...

Google has released tools that "make it easy for anyone to create programs for Android phones". Much like Lego, App Inventor lets people drag "blocks" of code around to create applications. Goog...

Social networking website Facebook has agreed to adopt an application aimed at improving the online safety of its younger users, a child protection group said. The application, which follows a l...

Are you looking for crocodile penis?" the Indonesian trader whispered to a journalist couple whom he thought was looking for an aphrodisiac to spice up their lives. The cost of the appendage? RM2...

Motorola's Droid X does many things well, including Wi-Fi and social networking access, but not well enough to conquer the iPhone. Apple's new-product launches tend to overshadow any company that ...

A small black hole has been observed blowing a vast bubble of hot gas 1,000 light-years across. The gas is expanding because it is being heated by powerful particle "jets" being released by the bl...

Pregnant teenagers are more likely to give birth prematurely and have a small baby than women in their 20s, says an Irish research team. Fourteen to 17-year-olds were also more likely to give birt...

The influx of thousands of soccer fans would increase demand on South African sex workers; at least that was the belief of a leading expert prior to the start of the 2010 World Cup. But it seems f...

In the age of new technology, where an increasing amount of transactions happen in cyberspace, internet users need to remain a step ahead of scammers. They need to be extra careful to not downloa...