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Datuk Johan Mahmood Merican says improved servers and 8,000-plus retailers will prevent a repeat of congestion seen during the first rollout of the RM100 Sara aid programme. — Picture by Yusof Isa
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Government upgrades servers for next Sara aid round, expands retailer list to over 8,000 shops

Pearly Tan and M Thinaah during the women’s doubles final at the 2025 Thailand Open badminton tournament in Bangkok on May 18, 2025. — AFP pic
Sports  / 6 h ago

Malaysia power into SEA Games semis to lock in women’s badminton medal

This is not ‘sang har mee’; instead, it is braised ‘sang har sang mein’, and it is the signature dish at Wong Kok Seafood Restaurant in Ipoh. — Picture by Ethan Lau
Eat-drink  / 13 h ago

At Wong Kok Seafood Restaurant in Ipoh, the unique braised ‘sang har mee’ and cold tofu are the stars

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim speaks beside Deputy Prime Ministers Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof in a townhall session during the ‘Rancakkan Madani’ programmer, Dataran Putrajaya December 7, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

Anwar gives all ministers thumbs up in surprise midterm review, says no weak links

Continuous rain is expected overnight in Johor, involving the districts of Segamat, Kluang, Mersing, Kulai, Kota Tinggi and Johor Bahru from December 7 to 8, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

MetMalaysia warns of non-stop heavy rains overnight in Johor and Sarawak 

MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong said that if Barisan Nasional’s component parties continue working with DAP and Pakatan Harapan in the next general election, his party will chart its own path. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
Malaysia  / 9 h ago

MCA says ‘good luck’ to BN if allies team up with Pakatan, DAP again in next GE

The Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Malaysia welcomed the exemption of businesses earning below RM1 million from e-invoicing in 2026, saying it gives small firms vital breathing space to stabilise and upgrade. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

SME group welcomes e-invoicing exemption for sub-RM1m firms, says 200,000 to benefit

Police said the woman’s hair was also cut during the incident, prompting her to flee the house and seek help from nearby neighbours before she was rescued. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
Malaysia  / 6 h ago

Domestic worker’s nightmare: Malaysian woman burnt, stabbed and punched by employer in Rawang flees to neighbours; cops investigating

One of the undocumented migrants is seen with hands and legs cuffed among those detained during a joint operation in Selayang Baru, Kuala Lumpur, last night. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 11 h ago

Authorities detain 843 undocumented migrants in Selayang Baru raid after community complaints

Subang Jaya police chief ACP Wan Azlan Wan Mamat said the boys were picked up in Bukit Lanchong, Shah Alam, yesterday. — Screengrab via Facebook/Info Kemalangan & Bencana Malaysia
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Two teens arrested over viral ‘basikal lajak’ stunt at Putra Heights traffic light

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim visits the family of the late Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin at their home in Damai, Kota Kinabalu December 6, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Anwar visits Bung Moktar’s family, calls late Sabah leader ‘a great loss to the nation’

A bank employee helped prevent a customer from losing more than S$200,000 to scammers after intervening during a tense encounter at a DBS branch late last year.  — Reuters pic
Singapore  / 8 h ago

Singapore bank employee foils S$200,000 scam attempt as victim almost hands cash to criminals

Mohamed Salah took aim at Liverpool manager Arne Slot in an astonishing rant that could spell the end of his legendary career at Anfield. — AFP pic
Sports  / 13 h ago

Salah outburst shakes Liverpool as star claims he’s been hung out to dry by Slot

Penang police uncover 30 bitcoin mining machines hidden at several premises around Jalan Air Putih, Balik Pulau on December 6, 2025 following a join inspection with TNB on high electricity usage. — Bernama file pic
Malaysia  / 7 h ago

Mystery electricity spike in Balik Pulau leads police to hidden bitcoin mine

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (second from right) presents the People’s Welfare Insurance Scheme (SIKR) 3.0 to a recipient representative at the closing ceremony of the ‘Rancakkan Madani Bersama Malaysiaku programme’ at Dataran Putrajaya on December 7, 2025, accompanied by Deputy Prime Ministers Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (centre) and Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof (right), and Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar (left). — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 5 h ago

New govt-paid insurance scheme raises payouts for death and disability; up to RM26,500 for Malaysia’s poorest families

A destroyed Syrian army battle tank lies abandoned near the ancient ruins of Palmyra in central Syria on February 7. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Foreign minister: Syria to have new government on March 1

Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS), but have been there for more than eight months. — Reuters pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

NASA says US astronauts stranded on ISS could return to Earth in March

The victim said she was dragged into the school toilet and beaten by at least 10 other students who also stomped on her head and smashed her head into the toilet bowl. — Pixbay pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Thai students gang up against 13-year-old in school after classmate accuses her of saying bad things, mum finds out from video

Bangkok University expels Rasipa and Chakatpol as its students on February 11, 2025, saying their actions violated both the law and the institution’s student discipline regulations. — Picture from Bangkok University website
World / 12 Feb 2025

Thai authorities arrest six more students over LGBTQ+ hot soup assault, Bangkok University expels two

The Wat Saket in Bangok was visibleon February 7, 2025, but Thailand’s air quality has been increasingly smoggier in the past few days and the country’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency has placed a red alert warning on hazardous levels on February 12, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Thailand’s air quality plummets: Bangkok’s pollution at hazardous with PM2.5 levels above safe limit

A bronze seal decorates the US Treasury building in Washington DC. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

US Treasury admits to error allowing Musk aide to modify data of sensitive payment worth trillions of dollars, claims a mistake

Salman Rushdie published an account of the stabbing titled ‘Knife’ in 2024. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Writer Rushdie testifies in US attempted murder trial against attacker, describes 10-time stabbing that left him one-eyed

Boosting membership fees is seen as a way for WHO to reduce its reliance on a handful of major donors and ensure more predictable and flexible finances. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

From health conditions in Gaza and fake medicines to NCDs and babies, WHO faces new funding realities as USAID withdrawal looms

The Gulf of Mexico shows as Golf of America on Google Maps since February 10, 2025 for those using its app inside the United States, complying with an executive order by President Donald Trump. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

When names matter: White House bars AP reporter after news agency rejects Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ 

Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared at an intersection in Yashio, north of Tokyo, Japan on January 28, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Truck cabin found two weeks after Tokyo sinkhole swallows vehicle, but sewage water delays search for driver

Justin Welby resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury, who heads the world’s Anglican Church, in November 2024 after an independent inquiry found he took insufficient action to stop serial paedophile, barrister John Smyth who died in 2018 aged 77. — Reuters pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Outrage as Church of England votes against fully independent child safeguards amid sex abuse scandals

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is said to share much in common with US President Donald Trump, with both campaigning on promises to promote the interests of their countries’ majority communities over minorities and both shifting long-held democratic norms by doggedly pursuing critics. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Seeking Trump favour, Modi prepares for US visit with tariff cuts and immigration cooperation 

The US has reportedly been the top donor in the world and gave US$64 billion in 2023 while China is said to dish out loans instead of grants that amounted to US$1.34 trillion over the past 20 years. — Reuters pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Will Beijing step up? Trump’s foreign aid freeze pushes small but strategic nations towards China for support

Supporters of Israelis lift placards and flags in front of the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem on February 11, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Trump insists US to own Gaza, Jordan king pushes back

US President Donald Trump claims that US judges were preventing him from cleaning up the government. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

Trump warns of US judicial ‘tyranny’ amid clash over executive orders

Elon Musk (left) speaks as US President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 12 Feb 2025

‘It’s essential’: Musk says US could go ‘bankrupt’ without federal budget cuts