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The ETS3 KL-JB route extends the train service from the capital right up to the southern tip of the peninsula, Johor Bahru. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

KL–JB ETS service to start Dec 12, offering trips in under five hours for Malaysian and Singaporean travellers

The incident, captured by a member of the public, showed a man slumped in the driver’s seat of a white Perodua Myvi. — Picture from social media
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

Seremban gun attack along Jalan Rasah: One dead, another hospitalised in suspected gang feud

Government spokesman Datuk Fahmi Fadzil said Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar will review and revise a 2020 circular on attire for government premises. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 8 h ago

‘No turning away’: Cabinet orders dress code overhaul at police stations after public outcry

According to Lim Guan Eng, the MOF reply only confirmed that more than three million taxpayers had been issued refunds totalling RM9.35 billion as of June 30, 2025, with only 1.07 million receiving full refunds amounting to RM2.73 billion. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Lim Guan Eng pushes for RM20b tax refunds for two million Malaysians despite personal attacks

Selangor Ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah is interviewed by Bernama chairman Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai in conjunction with the Sultan’s 80th birthday, Kuala Lumpur, December 10, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

State rights must not overshadow national unity, says Selangor Sultan

The government has announced a reduction in retail fuel prices for RON97, RON95 and diesel by 2 sen per litre for the week of December 11 to December 17. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

Finance Ministry cuts fuel prices by 2 sen per litre for RON97, RON95 and diesel for one week starting Dec 11

The Malaysian government’s Sulu Special Secretariat War Room announced that the Paris Court of Appeal had yesterday fully annulled the arbitrator’s order directing Malaysia to pay the amount. — Picture by Farhan Najib
Malaysia  / 7 h ago

Malaysia wins again as French court junks Sulu claimants' US$14.9b award, govt says this ends ‘extortion’ bid

In a post on X, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said his productive Malaysia visit this week included meetings with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow, highlighted Intel’s long-standing presence in Penang since 1972, and featured lighter moments enjoying ‘char koay teow’ and durian. — Pictures from X/Lip-Bu Tan
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

‘Productive’ Malaysia trip: Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan meets Anwar, visits Penang — and hunts down ‘char koay teow’, durian

Pahang deputy police chief Datuk Azry Akmar Ayob said the 30-year-old man was contacted by an individual before being promised lucrative daily returns of between RM550 and RM600. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

RM783,000 gone: Restaurant owner loses savings, loans, jewellery to Facebook scam

Slurp down this refined bowl of Taiwanese beef noodles with a fortifying beef broth. — Picture by Lee Khang Yi
Eat-drink  / 15 h ago

Slurp down this belly warming bowl of Taiwanese beef noodles served at PJ Section 14’s Zui Niu

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has issued a new forfeiture notice on assets tied to the late Tun Daim Zainuddin, according to his family’s lawyers. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Malaysia  / 8 h ago

MACC issues fresh forfeiture notice on Daim-linked assets amid ongoing probe

Segambut Bersatu deputy chief Adam Radlan Adam Muhammad has pledged to return to Malaysia soon to assist the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in its investigation into the MEX II Highway project. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 10 h ago

MACC: Segambut Bersatu deputy chief Adam Radlan to return from UK to assist MEX II probe

MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki speaks to the media during the SPRM–UiTM Inspira 2025: Integrity and Leadership Day programme at UiTM Puncak Alam, Shah Alam December 10, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 8 h ago

Azam Baki: MACC won’t clash with new integrity body Ombudsman Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu District Police Chief Assistant Commissioner Kasim Muda said investigations found that the victim had been walking with her husband when she was suddenly struck by an object believed to have been shot from a moving vehicle. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Slingshot attack in KK: Sabah cops hunt suspect who shot China tourist

A screengrab of the incident where two vehicles allegedly blocked an ambulance on the Kesas Highway heading towards Klang on Monday. — Screengrab from TikTok/azmanroy@85
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Police tracking down drivers who blocked ambulance on Kesas Highway (VIDEO)

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the group would ‘get rid of fact-checkers’ and replace them with community-based posts, starting in the US. — AFP pic
World / 10 Jan 2025

Australia warns of disinformation storm after Meta drops fact-checkers in US

A helicopter flies, as smoke rises from the Sunset Fire in the hills overlooking the Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles January 8, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Out-of-control Los Angeles wildfires push water supplies to the brink

World / 09 Jan 2025

Doing a Musk? What’s behind Zuckerberg’s surprise Trump pivot

Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticisms of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave very serious and shameful. — Reuters pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Pope Francis condemns Israel’s Gaza campaign, calls humanitarian crisis ‘shameful’

This photograph shows an overturned bus near Hadsel, on December 26, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Two French, one Chinese citizen killed in Norway coach crash, police reveals

Japan in the last week of December experienced the biggest influenza outbreak since comparable data became available 25 years ago, health authorities said Thursday. — Reuters pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Japan sees worst flu outbreak in 25 years with over 317,000 cases in last week of December

Meteorologists predicted that Bangkok would experience its coldest weather in nearly four decades this Sunday and Monday, with temperatures expected to drop to 16°C. — AFP pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Bangkok braces for coldest weather in 40 years as temperatures plunge to 16°C this weekend

More than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate as dry, hurricane-force winds hindered firefighting operations and spread the fires. — Reuters pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Hollywood is burning: Los Angeles wildfires spiral out of control, at least five dead, over 100,000 evacuated

File photo of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun arrives in front of the latter’s official residence. — Reuters
World / 09 Jan 2025

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept court decision even if it ends presidency

Chinese health authorities have detected the new mutated mpox strain clade Ib. — Reuters
World / 09 Jan 2025

China discovers cluster of new mpox strain

Masked children, accompanied by adults, wait to be seen by medical staff at the pediatric department of a hospital in Hangzhou, eastern China’s Zhejiang province.
World / 09 Jan 2025

Doctors in China downplay reports claiming ‘surge’ in HMPV cases, pointing instead to the rise of influenza infections

Takeshi Ebisawa poses with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish police officers at a warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark in Feb. 3, 2021. — Reuters 
World / 09 Jan 2025

Japanese crime leader pleads guilty in US to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

Smoke from the Palisades Fire is seen over the Pacific Ocean. — AFP
World / 09 Jan 2025

Extreme weather, suburban sprawl fuel LA’s wildfires

An apartment building burns in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county. — AFP
World / 09 Jan 2025

Multi-million Malibu mansions razed as Los Angeles wildfire burns down whole streets

Government health workers test a resident of the Roli Madeira riverside community amid concern over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in the southwest of Marajo Island, in the state of Para, Brazil, on June 1, 2020. — AFP pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

The next pandemic is a matter of when — is the world ready to tackle it amid inequality and disinformation?

Maryland Cremation Services transporter Reggie Elliott brings the remains of a Covid-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland on December 24, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. — AFP pic
World / 09 Jan 2025

Forgotten but not gone: Five years on, Covid still infecting and killing humans across the globe