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2025 World Championships women’s doubles runners-up Pearly Tan and M Thinaah. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 19 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  / 16 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  / 9 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  / 14 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  / 10 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  / 17 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  / 13 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  / 17 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  / 9 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  / 16 h ago

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

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  / 11 h ago

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

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  / 18 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  / 16 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  / 13 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  / 17 h ago

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

There was no immediate comment from Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

Turkiye blocks Instagram following dispute over Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s death

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators take part in a rally to protest the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey July 31, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s slaying ‘doesn’t help’ Gaza ceasefire efforts, warns Biden

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado (centre, left) and opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia (centre, right) greet supporters during a rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in Caracas July 30, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

Blinken cites ‘overwhelming evidence’ for Gonzalez Urrutia’s win, as US urges Venezuela to release voting data

The blaze in Manila’s Binondo district was doused about three hours after fire responders were alerted around 7.30am. — Picture via Facebook/BMA Volunteer Fire Brigade
World / 02 Aug 2024

Manila Chinatown inferno claims 11 lives

Women with umbrellas walk by a poster in Akihabara, as Japanese government issued heat stroke alerts in the country's prefectures in Tokyo. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

Who turned up the thermostat? Japan sizzles through hottest July in 126 years

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs for Houston, Texas, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on July 31, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris set for Democratic nomination as Trump faces backlash over ‘birtherism’ remarks

A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei office shows him (centre) leading the prayer, next to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, over the coffin of slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, during his funeral procession in Tehran August 1, 2024, ahead of his burial in Qatar. — AFP pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

‘Day of furious rage’: Slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh to be buried in Qatar amid rising regional unease

Navalny was pronounced dead in February 2024 at a notoriously brutal Russian Arctic prison, where he was serving a 19-year sentence after exposing Kremlin corruption. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

US tried to get vocal Putin critic Alexei Navalny into Russia swap — but then he died

A protestor holds a banner reading ‘We Will Not Be Silenced’ during the ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration on Whitehall, outside the entrance to 10 Downing Street in central London July 31, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

UK PM Starmer vows crackdown on ‘marauding mobs’ as Southport teen perpetrator faces court

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin greets Russian national Vadim Krasikov, who was released in a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow August 1, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

‘Deal with the devil’: Germany’s release of convicted murderer spurs controversy amid historic East-West prisoner swap

Protestors remonstrate with police officers during the ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration on Whitehall, outside the entrance to 10 Downing Street in central London on July 31, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

UK police urged to bolster security at mosques, asylum seeker sites as more far-right protests loom

Religious clerics offer their condolences over the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, at the representative office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Najaf, Iraq August 1, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

Biden vows to defend Israel ‘against all threats from Iran’ in call with Netanyahu post Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination

Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Paul Whelan, who were detained in Russia, pose with a US flag as they celebrate their freedom in this undated handout photograph obtained on August 1, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Aug 2024

US journalist Evan Gershkovich and Russian intelligence colonel among prisoners freed in largest East-West swap since 2010

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally inspected the flooded areas and expressed grave concern over the damage, state media said on Monday. — Reuters pic/KCNA
World / 01 Aug 2024

In rare move, South Korea offers flood assistance to North Korea

A man pushes his bicycle over rubble as displaced Palestinians return to Bani Suhayla and neighbouring towns east of Khan Yunis following reports of Israeli forces withdrawing from the area in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 01 Aug 2024

Accused of assassinating Haniyeh, Israel says killed Hamas military chief Deif in last month’s strike on Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in a conversation with former Singapore ambassador Chan Heng Chee at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore on July 31, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 01 Aug 2024

Cool it down or ‘more violence, more suffering’ awaits Middle East, Washington says after Hamas chief assassinated