MOST of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a recent report found.
PETALING JAYA: Four Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flights to Britain were disrupted as international travel was thrown into chaos following incidents at two major airports on different sides of the world.
The type of first aid to be given differs according to the child's age and consciousness.
GEORGE TOWN: Parents should monitor their children's food choices and teach them about the danger certain types of food pose to prevent cases of choking on food, say experts and relevant organisations.
PETALING JAYA: Several online platforms are unlisting the sale of ping-pong ball-sized gummy candies, adhering to a directive from the Health Ministry.
KEPALA BATAS: Ten-year-old Mohammad Fahmi Hafiz Mohammad Fakhruddin, who choked on gummy candy two days ago, was laid to rest at the Masjid Jamek Permatang Binjai Muslim cemetery here on Friday ( Feb 21).
FALLEN trees are "polluting" Pantai Cherating Lama in Kuantan, raising concerns among residents about its impact on local tourism, reported Utusan Malaysia.
GEORGE TOWN: The 10-year-old boy, who had been in a critical condition at at the Penang Hospital (HPP) Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) after reportedly choking on a gummy candy, died on Thursday (Feb 20) night.
GEORGE TOWN: A Year Four pupil is in critical condition at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Penang Hospital (HPP) after choking on a "gummy" candy he bought outside the school area on Tuesday (Feb 18).
KOTA KINABALU: A woman has lodged a police report after her estranged husband allegedly choked their child and threatened her in a fit of rage after she filed for a divorce.
TRASH continues to pile high daily at an illegal dumping site along Jalan Persiaran Bumi Hijau towards Jalan Tebrau in Johor Baru, Harian Metro reported.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Western sanctions on Syria's banking sector are preventing critical investments in the war-ravaged economy despite huge interest from Syrian and foreign investors since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the country's investment chief said.
President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim at the last Western tech platform barely standing in wartime Russia: YouTube.
SINGAPORE: A man choked his 84-year-old grandmother and pulled her hair when she refused to give him money, breaching a personal protection order (PPO) that restrained him from using violence against her.
BANGKOK: The air quality in all areas of the Bangkok metropolitan area dipped below the safety standard on Thursday (Jan 23) morning, the Air Quality Information Centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) said.
SINGAPORE: Village Hotel Sentosa duty manager Kenneth Luah, 32, was in his office when a colleague of his alerted him that a girl was choking in the restaurant located within the hotel’s premises.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine sergeant who used a chokehold to restrain Jordan Neely, a homeless man, on a New York City subway car was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday in Neely's death.
NEW DELHI: India is cutting back its supply of cheap gas for vehicles as it struggles to cope with domestic production shortages, a move that could add to toxic air woes in major cities including New Delhi.
As the worst air pollution in years descended on India’s capital this week, the country’s health minister was not in New Delhi coordinating a response.
IN a quest for a pristine fishing spot, a group of fly-fishers in Selangor went into gotong-royong mode, dedicating half a day to clearing underwater weeds at Empangan Air Kuning in Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam.