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DAP Youth says SPM Malay requirement proves community respects national language. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 18 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  / 12 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  / 17 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  / 13 h ago

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

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  / 16 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  / 12 h ago

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

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  / 14 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  / 19 h ago

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

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  / 19 h ago

MOE ends SPLKPM so teachers can focus fully on the classroom 

Under the Sumbang Tunai Rahmah (STR), eligible recipients receive direct cash assistance from the government to help cover living costs. — Picture by Yusof Isa
Malaysia  / 58 m ago

With Sara closing, Malaysians can access alternative govt cash and subsidy programmes

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  / 13 h ago

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

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  / 16 h ago

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

Sarawak DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen said the latest victim, identified as Hong, had invested RM300,000 in the investment fund proposed by the BSN employee in question in 2024 and only realised he had been scammed after news reports emerged in 2025. — File picture by Miera Zulyana
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

BSN payouts coming next week for victims of employee-linked investment scam, says Sarawak DAP chief

Alert-level continuous rain warnings remain in place for parts of Perak, Pahang, Johor and Sarawak over the coming days. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

More heavy rain ahead: MetMalaysia issues warnings for Pahang, Perak, Johor, Kelantan, Terengganu and Sarawak until Dec 18

People cross a street next to police vehicles after the shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 11 h ago

Bondi Beach massacre draws international outrage, leaders vow to fight antisemitism

A December 12, 2020 file photograph shows Apple Daily founder and tycoon Jimmy Lai in restraints as he is brought to court in Hong Kong. — AFP pic
World / 21 Aug 2024

Hong Kong press freedom falls to new low, but journalists still bracing for worse

(COMBO) This combination of undated photos compiled by Jiji Press on August 19, 2024 shows Japanese lawmakers (top L to R) Shigeru Ishiba, Shinjiro Koizumi, Yoko Kamikawa and (bottom L to R) Sanae Takaichi, Toshimitsu Motegi and Taro Kono, who have been reported as possibly candidates for the head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on August 14, 2024 he will step aside next month, ending a three-year term plagued by low popularity ratings and a spluttering economy. Nearly a dozen Japanese lawmakers are regarded as possible contenders to replace Kishida. — Jiji Press pic via AFP
World / 21 Aug 2024

Trainspotters to Trump whisperers: Contenders for Japan PM

World / 20 Aug 2024

Republicans for Harris: How a diehard MAGA Trumpist turns into fervent Kamala campaigner

This photograph shows a Coast Guard boat with Italian fireboats and an Italian fire brigade helicopter search for six missing passenger after recovering a victim due to a sailboat sank off the coast of Porticello, nosthwestern of Sicily Island, on August 19, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

Captain says never saw storm that sunk Bayesian yacht and left ‘UK Bill Gates’, Morgan Stanley chair lost at sea

A file photograph shows the World Health Organization (WHO) logo near its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. — Reuters pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

No, it’s not Covid 2.0: WHO official says mpox different kind of outbreak

A file photograph shows a group of monkeys near a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. — Reuters pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

UK woman pleads guilty to role in global monkey-torture network spanning Indonesia, other Asian countries

Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto shakes hands with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ahead of a meeting at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, August 20, 2024 — Reuters pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

Gunboats and diplomacy: Indonesia and Australia sign landmark defence pact during Prabowo’s visit

U.S. President Joe Biden stands on stage during Day one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 19, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

‘We love Joe’: Tearful Biden wins ovation in farewell, hails Harris as Democrats’ future

Family members of the shooting victims and survivors accused Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Kosmetatos of being negligent in allowing their son, Dimitrios, to obtain weapons from their home and for not warning school officials or police about his deteriorating mental state. — Reuter pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

Texas jury finds Santa Fe High school shooter’s parents not liable for violence

The decision follows current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s bombshell announcement last week that he won’t seek re-election, after polls showed plummeting approval ratings for his government. — AFP pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

Japan ruling party to choose next PM on Sept 27 after Kishida refuses re-election

Attendees hold signs as Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris waves during Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 19, 2024 — Reuters pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

‘When we fight, we win!’: Harris makes surprise appearance at meet, rouses Democrats to struggle for ideals

UK businessman Mike Lynch, who was recently acquitted in the US of an $11 billion fraud, is among those missing after a superyacht sank off southern Italy, a source close to the rescue effort said on August 19, 2024. Lynch's wife was among 15 people rescued, according to the source, after the luxury yacht 'Bayesian' sank overnight amid violent winds and rains off the coast of Sicily, leaving six others missing. — AFP pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

‘UK Bill Gates’: Who is Mike Lynch, recently acquitted from fraud and now lost at sea after storm sinks superyacht?

Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, commander Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, crew members of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, attend a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 19, 2024. Launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for August 26. — Reuters pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

Four SpaceX mission members arrive in Florida for historic private spacewalk next week

This photograph shows a Coast Guard boat with Italian fireboats and an Italian fire brigade helicopter search for six missing passenger after recovering a victim due to a sailboat sank off the coast of Porticello, nosthwestern of Sicily Island, on August 19, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

Party turned tragedy: ‘UK Bill Gates’ and Morgan Stanley chair among six still lost at sea after waterspout sinks superyacht off Sicily

The United States goes to the polls on November 5, with both Trump’s and rival Kamala Harris’s campaigns saying they had been targeted by cyber attacks in recent weeks. US-based tech companies have also said they detected such attacks. — AFP pic
World / 20 Aug 2024

US security agencies says Iran responsible for Trump campaign hack

Democratic Republic of Congo Health minister Samuel-Roger Kamba addresses a press conference in Kinshasa on August 19, 2024. Cases of the mpox virus are rising in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the central African country awaits vaccines from the United States and Japan, the health minister said on Monday.
World / 20 Aug 2024

Mpox cases and deaths rise in DR Congo as country awaits vaccines from US, Japan