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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar shows the new Cabinet list during a special announcement in Putrajaya on December 16, 2025. — Picture from Facebook/Anwar Ibrahim
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Anwar announces Cabinet reshuffle: Jo Ghani takes over at Miti, Hannah Yeoh now FT minister

A view of the Cabinet meeting room at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya. — Picture by Afiq Hambali/Prime Minister’s Office of Malaysia
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

Malaysia Cabinet reshuffle: Full list of all 28 ministers and deputies

Passengers pose for a selfie at JB Sentral on Dec 12, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

KL Sentral-JB Sentral ETS services double to eight daily trips starting 2026

PM Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to deliver a special update on the Madani Cabinet at 3:30pm today. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Anwar to go ‘live’ at 3.30pm today with special announcement

Rain clouds are seen over the city centre in Kuala Lumpur in this file picture dated December 8, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Brace for rain: Thunderstorm alert until noon for Selangor, KL, N. Sembilan and Sabah

Prices for some of Rapid KL’s public transport passes will go up next year starting January 1, but prices for the My50 monthly pass will remain unchanged at RM50. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Rapid KL transport passes’ prices go up from Jan 1, but My50 pass stays at RM50

Dr Mohammed Taufiq is a politician and a physician who has been serving as the Sungai Petani MP since November 2022. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Physician turned politician Dr Mohammed Taufiq Johari takes charge of Youth and Sports portfolio

New evidence related to the killing of three victims in the Durian Tunggal police shooting was presented during a press conference at Lawyers for Liberty in Petaling Jaya, December 15, 2025. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

AGC orders Durian Tunggal police shooting case reclassified as murder

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told the Dewan Negara that the police report on the case will be submitted to the Attorney-General today for further action. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

‘No compromise’: Police assure full, transparent probe into Durian Tunggal triple shooting in Melaka, says Anwar

The new Aerotrain is seen during its launch at KLIA Terminal 1 in Sepang on July 1, 2025. — Yusof Mat Isa pic
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

KLIA Aerotrain starts trial operations amid major repair push; nightly shutdown to continue

Penang police chief Datuk Azizee Ismail said the 54-year-old man was deceived after receiving a call on February 21 at his home in George Town from an individual claiming to be a cybersecurity officer. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Manager duped out of RM2.54m in elaborate phone scam in Penang

After helming the deputy minister’s role twice in different ministries, Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir will now take on a new role as Economy Minister. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Akmal Nasrullah succeeds Rafizi Ramli as Malaysia’s new Economy Minister

A general view of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur on May 7, 2025. — Bernama pic
What You Think  / 15 h ago

Why Petronas finds it difficult to accept Sarawak’s current demands — Samirul Ariff Othman

North-east District police chief ACP Abdul Rozak Muhammad said the local men, aged between 25 and 28, were detained at several locations around the state. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Roadside brawl in Jelutong over sale of car: Penang police arrest six men in restaurant fight

National equestrian athlete Megan Ding Min Ern trotted to gold in the individual dressage event at the SEA Games Thailand 2025 in Chonburi today. — Picture via Facebook/Thailand Equestrian Federation
Sports  / 15 h ago

SEA Games: Megan Ding wins dressage gold for Malaysia

India’s capital Delhi was the worst offender, with 12,000 annual deaths linked to air pollution—or 11.5 percent of the total.— AFP pic
World / 04 Jul 2024

Study show air pollution drives 7pc of deaths in big Indian cities

The weather bureau said on Thursday that it expects temperatures in most areas across China to be relatively high over the next few months, signalling a second consecutive summer of extreme heat. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jul 2024

China warns of hotter, longer heatwaves as climate change intensifies

The Times said people who have interacted with the president had found that his mental fogginess was “growing more frequent, more pronounced and more worrisome.” — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jul 2024

White House says zero chance Biden will withdraw

As with previous cases, the person worked on a farm and was exposed to infected cows, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement, adding that the risk to the general population remained “low.” — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jul 2024

US reports fourth human case of bird flu linked to cows

Russia’s southern Dagestan region today issued a temporary ban against wearing the niqab in the Muslim-majority republic, citing security reasons after a recent attack against churches and synagogues. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Russia’s Dagestan bans niqab over ‘threats’ after attacks

Victims of forced sterilisation under a now-defunct eugenics law, celebrate with lawyers and supporters outside of the Supreme Court of Japan in Tokyo July 3, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Historic ruling: Japan’s Supreme Court deems forced sterilisation law unconstitutional

Last year residents in the province killed an eight-metre python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Woman found dead swallowed by python in Indonesia

Move Forward won the most votes in last year’s general election on an anti-establishment platform, but the party was blocked from forming a government by conservative lawmakers and senators allied with the royalist military. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Thai court sets July 17 for next hearing in opposition Move Forward party case

Kamala Harris seems like the obvious choice. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Who could replace Biden if he withdraws from US presidential race? Here's a list of likely Democrats

According to official figures obtained by AFP, 45 women were murdered in Iraq’s Kurdistan in 2021, up from 25 the previous year. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Murdered and forgotten: Iraqi victims of gender-based violence

A woman is consoled as she mourns after her son died in a stampede outside a hospital in Hathras district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, July 2, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Stampede in India kills 116, massive overcrowding blamed after 250,000 attended Hindu congregation meant for 80,000

Sunak has sought to persuade voters that his 20 months in charge have set the economy on an upward path after the external shocks of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, and drawn a line under years of turmoil overseen by his Conservative predecessors. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Economic warnings dominate as UK election campaign enters final day

Sahar, mother of Palestinian man Bahaa al-Nimr , 19, who suffers from cerebral palsy and malnutrition, washes her son with little water in their home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in the north of Gaza City on July 2, 2024. More than 150,000 people in the Gaza Strip have contracted skin diseases in the squalid conditions into which displaced people have been forced since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October, according to the WHO, while Gaza's children are already highly vulnerable to disease because their immune systems are compromised by malnutrition, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical coordinator in the besieged Palestinian territory said. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Dangerous skin diseases spreading among Gaza children

Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported that the dead were young men, aged 22 to 25, killed in a strike by an Israeli drone near the centre of the camp. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Palestinian Authority says four killed in Israeli strike in West Bank

Brazil has about 109 million active Facebook users and 113 million Instagram users, according to data firm Statista. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

Brazil requires Meta to stop taking user data to train AI

In a joint statement, the 12 former government officials said the administration was violating U.S. laws through its support for Israel and finding loopholes to continue shipping weapons to its ally. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jul 2024

US has ‘undeniable complicity’ in Gaza war killings, say former US officials