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2025 World Championships women’s doubles runners-up Pearly Tan and M Thinaah. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 17 h ago

Malaysia’s badminton camp falls short of four-gold target, spotlight now on doubles aces Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik and Pearly Tan-Thinaah

DAP Youth says SPM Malay requirement proves community respects national language. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

UEC recognition a constitutional right, not threat to Bahasa Malaysia, says DAP Youth Wing

BAM doubles coaching director Rexy Mainaky said he is ready to step down as part of taking responsibility for the four-gold shortfall in Malaysia’s 2025 SEA Games badminton results. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 7 h ago

One gold, two silver, six bronze: Malaysia’s badminton chief admits shortfall, open to stepping down after SEA Games results

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi attends the 33rd All Malaysian Indian Progressive Front (IPF Malaysia) general assembly in Hulu Langat December 14, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Zahid cautions BN component parties against exit, says there will be ‘no way back’

‘Wantan mee’ with ‘char siu’ and Hakka ‘zha yuk’ at Toong Kwoon Chye. — Picture by Ethan Lau
Eat-drink  / 18 h ago

Toong Kwoon Chye Wanton Mee, Bukit Bintang: A taste of four generations of ‘wantan mee’ legacy going back over a century

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 8 h ago

Bloodshed at Bondi: 11 killed as gunfire tears through Sydney beach

A KTM Komuter train at the Kajang station. A new timetable for selected routes will take effect from January 1. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

KTMB announces new Klang Valley Komuter timetable from Jan 1 amid KVDT2 works

Malaysia secured its first badminton gold of the SEA Games today after national women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and M Thinaah triumphed in Bangkok. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 11 h ago

Pearly Tan–Thinaah break the spell as Malaysia finally strikes SEA Games gold

Ayesha Assilla Watuna said she has raised over RM15,000 so far, pledging 100 per cent of the proceeds to the Global Sumud Flotilla. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Legendary move: Sabah woman sells rare Pokémon card collection to join next Sumud Flotilla mission

Malaysia’s sepak takraw team celebrates their historic 2-1 victory over Thailand in the men’s team regu final at Nakhon Pathom Gymnasium, ending a 34-year gold drought. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 7 h ago

Malaysia ends 34-year drought with SEA Games team regu gold over Thailand

Emergency responders at the scene of the road accident at Machang UiTM, where a student was killed after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing the road. — Picture via Facebook
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Student killed in Machang UiTM accident had wireless earbud on, police say

The Bagan MP said a proposed RM20 billion tax refund payout before Chinese New Year could inject much-needed liquidity into the business sector. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Lim Guan Eng urges full tax refunds, buy-local policy to ease business cash crunch

After four records and the 2025 SEA Games gold in Thailand, the Malaysian and Sarawak governments are lining up rewards for hammer thrower Grace Wong. — Picture from X/Bernama_Radio
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

Sarawak, Putrajaya to reward record-breaking SEA Games gold medallist Grace Wong

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the decision was made following feedback from teachers who felt the sSPLKPM was affecting their focus on their core duties. — File picture by Mukhriz Hazim
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

MOE ends SPLKPM so teachers can focus fully on the classroom 

The Kuala Terengganu High Court ruled today that the earlier defamation trial against Clare Rewcastle-Brown was invalid and must be reheard. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Kuala Terengganu High Court orders retrial in Clare Rewcastle-Brown defamation case

US singer Lizzo performs on The Pyramid Stage on day 4 of the Glastonbury Festival in the village of Pilton in Somerset June 24, 2023. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 30 Mar 2024

Lizzo says ‘I quit’ after ‘lies’ told about her

Demonstrators dance during a rally in front of the Rassemblement National (RN) organised by the French association SOS Racisme in Paris on March 24, 2024, in support of Aya Nakamura, following the numerous racist attacks on the French-Malian singer, who was mentioned as a possible participant in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 30 Mar 2024

Aya Nakamura brushes off far-right haters in new single

A rowdy, wide-ranging homage to Beyonce's southern heritage, the 27-track second act to her 'Renaissance' trilogy is a genre-bending triumph that vaunts Black country culture. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 30 Mar 2024

Welcome to the Beyonce rodeo: New country album drops to praise

Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva speaks at a news conference in Moscow, March 5, 2009 to announce the end of her stage career as she approaches her 60th birthday. — Reuters pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Russia mulls labelling Pugacheva, queen of Soviet pop, a ‘foreign agent’

Louis Gossett Jr, who was also a producer, director, social activist and the founder of the Eracism Foundation to combat racism, died at a rehabilitation centre in Santa Monica, California, the Washington Post reported. — Reuters pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Louis Gossett Jr, first Black man to win Oscar as best supporting actor, dead at 87

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives for the ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ panel in Hall H of the Convention Center during Comic Con in San Diego, California July 18, 2019. - AFP pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Schwarzenegger ‘ready to film’ TV show after pacemaker surgery

Dolla was the first girl group featured in the Chinese variety show ‘Show It All’. — Picture via Instagram/dolla.official
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Malaysian girl group Dolla presents batik and kebaya in Chinese variety show ‘Show It All’ (VIDEO)

A general view shows the office building of Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, which was founded by Johnny Kitagawa, in Tokyo July 10, 2019. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Japan boyband agency admits two more employees committed sexual abuse

A woman walks past an advertisement of 'Oppenheimer' in Tokyo on March 29, 2024. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

A-bomb saga ‘Oppenheimer’ finally opens in Japan

Karina (2nd right) and other members of South Korean girl group Aespa attend the red carpet at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in Seoul on December 11, 2021. — AFP file pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Fan outcry over K-pop star’s date highlights ‘harsh’ industry rules

Director Christopher Nolan accepts the award for Best Director for ‘Oppenheimer’ onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan to be given knighthood

Beyonce has been a showbiz fixture for nearly three decades, but for all the caps she's worn, the Houston-bred megastar's cowboy hat has stayed within reach: Queen Bey has always been country. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 29 Mar 2024

Beyonce’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ drips history — and joy

Prana Supreme (left) and Tekitha of O.N.E The Duo, a Mother Daughter Country duo, sing an Acapella version of one of their songs in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 14, 2024. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 28 Mar 2024

From Wu-Tang to Nashville, a mother-daughter country act

Trea Swindle, Danica Hart, and Devynn Hart of Chapel Hart stand for a portrait before their performance at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 14, 2024. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 28 Mar 2024

Beyonce album highlights the Black women changing country music

This photograph taken on February 20, 2024 shows the logo of the Eurovision 2024 displayed during a press conference of Belgian singer actor and singer Mustii (aka Thomas Mustin), who will represent Belgium at the song contest, at the headquarters of French-spoken public broadcaster RTBF in Brussels. The contest will be held in Malmo, Sweden, in May. — AFP pic
Showbiz / 28 Mar 2024

Sweden prepares for high security Eurovision with Gaza spotlight

People exit the platform at a train station along the Yamanote Line in Tokyo on April 26, 1986. A time-travelling TV comedy with a bawdy middle-aged hero has become a big hit in Japan, juxtaposing its brash 1980s boom years with the more politically correct present day. In the series, titled
Showbiz / 28 Mar 2024

Hit TV satire reveals how Japanese society has changed