Sunday, 31 Jan 2021 12:34 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Dr Zakir Naik is wanted in his home country India to face criminal charges, including for alleged money-laundering and links to the alleged funding and alleged inciting of terrorist activities. Reuters pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was not agreeable to the idea of Malaysia expelling fugitive Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik, as the then prime minister said no third country wanted to accept the Indian national, former attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas has reportedly said in his latest book.
Sunday, 17 Jan 2021 10:41 AM MYT
BY JERRY CHOONG
Tun Dr Mahathir said he hopes the Perikatan Nasional administration under Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin would give more weight to the doctors’ opinions, as they are experts in their fields. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 The government should establish a panel of medical doctors and leading medical practitioners in the country to review its efforts in curbing the spread of Covid-19, said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
The former general practitioner also said he hopes the Perikatan Nasional administration under Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin would give more weight to the doctors’ opinions, as they are experts in their fields.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today insisted he was never against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s bid to succeed him as prime minister despite never coming through on that promise. He claimed that the process ran into issues when Anwar began pushing for the transition to.
| 13 January 2021
Live and on-demand video streaming and DRM provider Vualto has been chosen by the UK’s leading independent broadcaster ITV to implement the necessary dynamic event orchestration technology to deliver live streamed events via its ITV Hub video-on-demand service.
The broadcasting giant say that it selected Vualto to deliver the necessary infrastructure to enable the spinning up of pop-up channels for the streaming of live events via its ITV Hub. In order to drive incremental views and make the broadcasting of more niche events via the ITV Hub, the partnership with Vualto will also enable ITV to explore more of its existing sports rights.
| 14 January 2021
In the latest part of the company’s plans to support human creative tasks by connecting them through software-mediated collaboration and automation, Motion Picture Laboratories (MovieLabs) has announced the latest steps in the MovieLabs Enhanced Content Protection (EPC) specification.
Originally published in 2013 and since widely implemented by industry partners, the EPC is said to be designed to raise the bar for protecting 4K, HDR and early window content in consumer distribution. The ECP spec is based on discussions with those partners and in response to evolving threats and the last version, ECP 1.2 was published in August 2018.
The latest version, ECP 1.3, primarily aims to address the risks posed by debugging interfaces left open in production units and by devices past their end-of-life for DRM and security updates that fail to patch known vulnerabilities.