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DAP Youth says SPM Malay requirement proves community respects national language. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 17 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  / 10 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  / 15 h ago

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

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 11 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  / 18 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  / 14 h ago

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

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  / 10 h ago

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

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  / 18 h ago

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

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  / 12 h ago

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

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  / 18 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  / 19 h ago

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

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  / 17 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  / 15 h ago

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

Feng Minmin doesn't let her height stop her from shooting hoops. — Xiaohongshu screenshot
Life  / 18 h ago

How high? China schoolgirl doesn’t let height get in the way of her basketball dreams (VIDEO)

Soh Wooi Yik (left) and Aaron Chia took the silver in the men’s doubles badminton final at the 2025 SEA Games in Bangkok on December 14, 2025. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 11 h ago

SEA Games heartbreak for Malaysia’s Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik as Indonesia claims men’s doubles gold

A rescue boat of the Italian Coast Guards operates in Porticello near Palermo, on August 20, 2024 a day after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. Specialist divers launched a fresh search for six people, including UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, missing since their yacht capsized off the Italian island of Sicily. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

What we know about: The sinking of the superyacht carrying ‘UK Bill Gates’ Mike Lynch off Sicily

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois August 20, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

Michelle Obama takes a jibe at Trump remark, says presidency might be a ‘Black job’

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te makes a speech at the annual Ketagalan Forum in Taipei August 21, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

‘Taiwan will neither yield nor provoke’, president asserts in response to China’s growing aggression

Former US first lady Michelle Obama embraces her husband, former US President Barack Obama, on stage before his speech during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois August 20, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

‘America is ready for a new chapter’: It’s Obamas’ night at the DNC as Barack, Michelle rouse crowd for Harris

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said his government is investigating how former mayor Alice Guo, accused of links with Chinese criminals, escaped the country — Reuters pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

President Marcos warns of ‘heads will roll’ after ex-mayor linked to Chinese criminal syndicate escapes Philippines

Pakistan’s high rate of marriages for underage girls had been inching lower in recent years, but after unprecedented floods in 2022, rights workers warn such weddings are now on the rise due to climate-driven economic insecurity. — FILE pic via Facebook/Unicef
World / 21 Aug 2024

Monsoon rains force Pakistani families to marry off young daughters for survival

“Something magically wonderful is in the air... It’s the contagious power of hope,” she told adoring attendees ahead of former president Barack Obama’s address. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

‘Hope is making a comeback’ Michelle Obama tells Democrats as Kamala Harris set to be nominated

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - AUGUST 20: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum on August 20, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Later this week Harris will accept her party's presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris White House campaign fuels merch boom             

Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil on August 20, 2024.?. Residents of Porto Velho in the Brazilian Amazon have barely seen sunlight in days as a thick cloud of smoke from forest fires envelops their city. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

Brazilians struggling to breathe as Amazon burns

Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc in Butler, Pennsylvania, in this file picture dated July 13, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

Trump to hold first outdoor rally since assassination attempt

Patients suffering from cholera receive treatment at a rural isolation centre in Wad Al-Hilu in Kassala state in eastern Sudan, on August 17, 2024. Sudan's health minister on August 17 declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

War-ravaged Sudan battles cholera epidemic

Doctors shout slogans during a protest demanding justice following the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a hospital in Kolkata, in New Delhi, India, August 19, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

India's top court sets up safety task force after trainee doctor's rape, murder

HOWELL, MICHIGAN - AUGUST 20: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while holding a document about illegal immigration during a visit to the Livingston County Sheriff's Office on August 20, 2024 in Howell, Michigan. Trump is visiting Michigan this week to discuss
World / 21 Aug 2024

Trump pushes tough-on-crime agenda in town with historic links to white extremism

Last week, the health agency of the African Union said some 200,000 vaccines would be deployed across Africa, thanks to agreements with the EU and Danish drug company Bavarian Nordic, whose vaccine was approved in 2019. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

PM Gabriel Attal: France to donate 100,000 mpox vaccines to affected countries

The WHO last week declared it a global public health emergency. — Picture from Bernama
World / 21 Aug 2024

Ivory coast reports one mpox death amid regional outbreak

The Telegram logo is shown on a computer screen in this illustrative file photo. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

EU’s showdown with big tech to show rest of world if there is any hope of taming the genie