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| PKR must fight to bring about systemic change, says Anwar |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-20-2021, 12:01 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: PKR must do all that it can to bring about systemic change, says party president Anwar Ibrahim.
Taking a swipe at the Perikatan Nasional administration during his speech at the party’s 15th national congress today, Anwar reminded all delegates that politics should not be an elite game to wrestle power.
“We must seek to represent the people’s aspirations, otherwise we are no different from the traitors,” he told the congress, held online.
Anwar also said the party must return to the principle of good governance, adding that it must continue to reject corruption and any abuse of power.
This was different from the current leadership which, he said, did not understand the people’s problems on the ground.
According to him, one of the government’s biggest failures was procuring an insufficient supply for vaccines and providing inadequate testing for Covid-19.
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| Smashing show by Malaysian shuttlers in Spain |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-20-2021, 11:51 AM - Forum: Badminton
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KUALA LUMPUR: National women’s singles player S Kisona won the 2021 Spanish International badminton tournament title last night, beating compatriot Goh Jin Wei in La Nucia.
The 2019 SEA Games champion bettered the two-time Junior World Champion Jin Wei to secure a 21-14, 21-19 win in the final after 31 minutes.
It was Kisona’s second win against Jin Wei, after having triumphed over the Penangite in the 2018 Thailand Masters.
Earlier, in the semifinals, Kisona outclassed French player Yaelle Hoyaux 21-18, 21-10, while Jin Wei eliminated fellow Malaysian Eoon Qi Xuan 21-17, 21-11, according to the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) official website.
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| BioNTech Covid-19 shots have stronger antibody response than Sinovac: Hong Kong study |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-20-2021, 10:25 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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HONG KONG (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) - People who are vaccinated against Covid-19 with BioNTech’s vaccine were found to have "substantially higher" levels of antibodies than those who received Sinovac’s jab, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday (June 19), citing a Hong Kong study.
Some who received the Sinovac vaccine might need a third booster shot as well, the newspaper said, citing lead researcher Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist with the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
The government-commissioned study was conducted by HKU’s school of public health and involved tracking the antibody responses of 1,000 people who received either vaccine, the report added.
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| The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-20-2021, 10:19 AM - Forum: International News
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(CNN)The incredible pictures of a depleted Lake Mead, on the California-Nevada border, illustrate the effects of drought brought on by climate change.
Later this year, the US government will almost certainly declare the first-ever water shortage along the Colorado River. Maps show more than a quarter of the US is in "exceptional drought," underscoring the scope of a decades-long dry-out.
Stories are popping up across the West of possible rationing, coming restrictions and looming standoffs between farmers and the government over the most precious natural resource.
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| Malaysian Bar: Lawyer’s purported suggestion that court decisions can be influenced |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-19-2021, 05:38 PM - Forum: Local News
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Malaysian Bar: Lawyer’s purported suggestion that court decisions can be influenced is disgraceful, unethical, misconduct
KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 — The Malaysian Bar today did not mince its words about a lawyer’s purported action of suggesting that court decisions can be influenced, saying that this would be a misconduct if the lawyer was proven to actually have made such suggestions.
Malaysian Bar president AG Kalidas cited a June 15 news report by portal Free Malaysia Today, where the Chief Justice’s Office was reported to have lodged a police report on June 7 against a senior lawyer for allegedly bringing the judiciary into disrepute.
Free Malaysia Today had cited sources in saying that the lawyer had allegedly sent a few text messages to a client in relation to two cases pending in court.
Saying that the Malaysian Bar was deeply troubled by such news, Kalidas said such “purported conduct as reported is disgraceful and unbecoming of a member of the legal community”.
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| Covid-19 variants behind growing number of patients arriving dead in hospitals |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-19-2021, 09:35 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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Malaysian experts suspect Covid-19 variants behind growing number of patients arriving dead in hospitals
KUALA LUMPUR - A growing number of Covid-19 patients are dying before they can make it to a hospital in Malaysia and experts are concerned about the trend.
They say this may be due to newer and more virulent variants of the coronavirus, such as the Delta variant first identified in India, emerging in the country.
The condition of patients may have deteriorated faster because of the new variants, the government's Covid-19 Epidemiological Analysis and Strategies Task Force chairman, Professor Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud, told The Straits Times.
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| China's about to administer its billionth coronavirus shot. Yes, you read that right |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-19-2021, 09:25 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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Within days, China will reach a staggering 1 billion doses in its Covid-19 vaccination drive -- a scale and speed unrivaled by any other country in the world.
As of Wednesday, China had administered more than 945 million doses -- three times the number delivered in the United States, and almost 40% of the 2.5 billion shots given globally.
The number is all the more remarkable given its rollout had a slow start. China only reached its first million doses on March 27 -- two weeks behind the US. But the pace picked up significantly in May, with more than 500 million shots given over the past month, according to data from China's National Health Commission.
On Tuesday alone, it administered more than 20 million doses. At that rate, it is likely to exceed 1 billion doses this weekend.
Vaccinating a country of 1.4 billion people against Covid-19 is a massive undertaking. Due to China's successful containment of the coronavirus, many residents initially saw little urgency in getting vaccinated. A history of safety scandals involving domestic vaccines also contributed to public hesitancy.
But several recent local outbreaks, including in the northern Anhui and Liaoning provinces and Guangdong in the south, have fueled fears of infection, prompting a rush to get vaccinated in affected regions.
For those still reluctant, China has a powerful tool in its arsenal: a top-down, one-party system that is all-encompassing in reach and forceful in action, and a sprawling bureaucracy that can be swiftly mobilized.
The top-down approach has been touted by officials as a strength of the Chinese system that helped curb the virus -- and has again been deployed to accelerate inoculations.
The all-out campaign to "vaccinate all who can be vaccinated" is being carried out across the country, in major cities and tiny villages alike, with government workers descending on neighborhoods to convince people to get vaccinated. In state-owned companies, meanwhile, employees are urged by their bosses to take the shots, while vaccination sites offer benefits, ranging from shopping vouchers to free groceries and ice cream.
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| Pie on the face for bakery’s racist customer |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-18-2021, 05:46 PM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry
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PETALING JAYA: A customer who demanded to know the ethnicity of those working in an online-based bakery in Petaling Jaya has been shut out by the business for being racist.
Thirty One Fine Bakes took to Instagram to slam the racist with screenshots of the WhatsApp conversation attached, maintaining that there should no tolerance for such discrimination and hate in Malaysia.
It had first received a query from the person about the company owner’s race, to which the bakery responded that it was a multiracial business and questioned the reason behind their question.
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| Chinese Astronauts reach space station |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-18-2021, 04:54 PM - Forum: Astronomy
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Astronauts salute the Chinese people after they enter Tianhe, the core module of the Chinese space station, on Thursday. After the Shenzhou XII spacecraft successfully completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, the crew entered the orbital capsule. JIN LIWANG/XINHUA
Core module's first occupants carrying out tasks as pioneering mission begins
Three Chinese astronauts have entered the core module of China's permanent space station to embark on their three-month mission, becoming the module's first occupants and pioneers in one of the nation's grandest space endeavors.
Major General Nie Haisheng, Major General Liu Boming and Senior Colonel Tang Hongbo floated into the core module, named Tianhe, or Harmony of Heavens, at 6:48 pm on Thursday, after their Shenzhou XII spaceship linked with the module in a low-Earth orbit about 390 kilometers above the Earth at 3:54 pm.
They have begun to carry out their tasks inside the craft, which is the first and central section of China's space station, called Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace.
The all-male crew, from the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Division, was launched by a 20-story-tall Long March 2F carrier rocket, which blasted off at 9:22 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert.
After about 10 minutes, the vehicle put the 8-metric-ton spaceship into the orbit to rendezvous and dock with Tianhe.
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| Can Alphabet’s DeepMind will ever make A.I. more human-like |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-18-2021, 04:47 PM - Forum: AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Computer scientists are questioning whether Alphabet’s DeepMind will ever make A.I. more human-like
- In its quest for artificial general intelligence, which is sometimes called human-level AI, DeepMind is focusing a large chunk of its efforts on an approach called “reinforcement learning.”
- This involves programming an AI to take certain actions in order to maximize its chance of earning a reward in a certain situation. In other words, the algorithm “learns” to complete a task by seeking out these preprogrammed rewards.
- Researchers at the company argued in a paper submitted to the peer-reviewed Artificial Intelligence journal last month that “Reward is enough” to reach general AI but not everyone agrees.
Computer scientists are questioning whether DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned U.K. firm that’s widely regarded as one of the world’s premier AI labs, will ever be able to make machines with the kind of “general” intelligence seen in humans and animals.
In its quest for artificial general intelligence, which is sometimes called human-level AI, DeepMind is focusing a chunk of its efforts on an approach called “reinforcement learning.”
This involves programming an AI to take certain actions in order to maximize its chance of earning a reward in a certain situation. In other words, the algorithm “learns” to complete a task by seeking out these preprogrammed rewards. The technique has been successfully used to train AI models how to play (and excel at) games like Go and chess. But they remain relatively dumb, or “narrow.” DeepMind’s famous AlphaGo AI can’t draw a stickman or tell the difference between a cat and a rabbit, for example, while a seven-year-old can.
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