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National Muay Thai athlete Angie Yan Jia Chi performs in the women’s Wai Kru event at the SEA Games Thailand 2025 at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok December 17, 2025. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 17 h ago

Malaysia’s Angie Yan stuns Thai world champion to claim Wai Kru gold on SEA Games debut

File photo of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Hannah Yeoh. The prime minister rejected claims today that Yeoh’s appointment strengthens DAP dominance, saying she serves the government, not a political party. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

‘Atrocious’: Anwar hits back at race-based attacks on Hannah Yeoh’s Cabinet appointment

Data from the Education Malaysia Global Services (EMGS) shows persistent demand for Malaysian university enrolment from China, Bangladesh and India. — AFP pic
Malaysia  / 2 h ago

Why Malaysian campuses are a hit with students from China, Bangladesh and India

Heavy rain falls during the FA Cup Final between JDT and Sabah FC at the National Stadium Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur on December 14, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Monsoon surge continues: METMalaysia issues rain warnings for peninsula, puts Pahang on max alert

Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abd Rahman speaks to the press at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya on June 25, 2025. — Sayuti Zanudin pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

After court‑ordered ‘reflection’ on Syed Saddiq appeal, prosecution decides the next move is forward

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with Hannah Yeoh, who thanked him for the trust placed in her following her appointment to oversee the Federal Territories. — Picture via Facebook/Hannah Yeoh
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

Hannah Yeoh thanks Anwar for trust as she sets out priorities for Federal Territories

National Muay Thai athlete Muhammad Mikail Ghazali Zulfikar (left) launches an attack against host nation fighter Suphakon Sirilun during the men’s 57kg final at the Thailand 2025 SEA Games in Bangkok today. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 14 h ago

Malaysian Muay Thai squad pull off sensational three-gold feat by upsetting home favourites, including a World Champion

National diver Yong Rui Jie competes in the men’s one-metre springboard event at the Thailand 2025 SEA Games at the Assumption University Aquatic Centre, Bangkok today. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 13 h ago

SEA Games 2025: Malaysia denied diving clean sweep, claim bronze in men’s one-metre springboard

His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, chats with attendees after the presentation of appointment letters and the swearing-in ceremony for federal ministers and deputy ministers at Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur on December 17, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Sultan Ibrahim’s message to Anwar’s new Cabinet: Integrity, teamwork, and service to the people

Perodua’s new Traz makes its debut as the brand’s latest urban SUV, designed with Malaysian drivers in mind.
Life  / 19 h ago

From KL to Penang on RM35? Perodua thinks the new RM76,000 Traz can do it

At 6pm, the ringgit inched down to 4.0855/0940 against the greenback, from 4.0835/0875 at yesterday’s close. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Money  / 14 h ago

Ringgit slips against US dollar as traders lock in gains

Police said four suspects were arrested on the day of the incident, with four more detained in follow-up operations. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Malaysia  / 14 h ago

Police detain eight over brutal Batu Caves slashing attack

A Malaysian martial arts coach has been accused of assaulting a Filipino referee at the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand following protests over a disputed pencak silat result, the Philippine Olympic Committee said. — Bernama pic
Sports  / 15 h ago

Malaysian pencak silat coach accused of striking SEA Games judge in tie-break dispute

Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow and other attendees take part in the symbolic release of butterflies at Entopia after a signing ceremony on December 17, 2025. — Opalyn Mok pic
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Penang’s Entopia to go global with franchises in eight countries after landmark Turkish deal

The Malaysian pair defeated China’s Jia Yi Fan and Zhang Shu Xian in straight games in 46 minutes. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 19 h ago

SEA Games glow continues as Pearly Tan-Thinaah hit the ground running at World Tour Finals

Demonstrators hold a banner as they march during a protest following the arrest by US immigration agents of Palestinian student protester Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University, in New York City, U.S., March 10, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 11 Mar 2025

‘First of many to come’: Trump vows crackdown on pro-Palestine student protesters, labels them ‘anti-Semitic’ and ‘terrorist sympathisers’

Construction cranes are seen behind a couple walking in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 6, 2025. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Trump and which votes on March 11, 2025 in legislative elections, is home to around 500 homeless people, or almost one percent of its population, according to a 2022 tally. — AFP pic
World / 11 Mar 2025

Greenland’s homeless struggle as modernisation leaves them behind in Arctic cold

A displaced resident working in an illegal poppy field for their livelihood during the fighting between Myanmar's military and KNDF (Karenni Nationalities Defence Force) in Pekon Township, on the border of Karen State and southern Shan State February 10, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 11 Mar 2025

‘We feel unsafe’: Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape

Protesters attend a demonstration against President Prabowo Subianto’s government, calling for various demands, including reviews of government budget cuts and the free nutritious meal programme for schools in front of a police barricade in Jakarta on February 21, 2025. Anger at the quality of life in South-east Asia’s biggest economy — a nation of 280 million known for pervasive corruption and nepotism — has stirred student protests and driven young and middle-aged professionals to seek jobs abroad. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

‘Exhausted and hopeless’: More Indonesians seek escape as anger over quality of life, economy grows

This photograph taken on March 6, 2025 shows the member nation flags including the US (centre) and British flags and the Nato Star sculpture, on display in the Cour d'Honneur of the The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) headquarters, in Brussels. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Report: Europe becomes top buyer of US arms in last five years amid rising tensions with Russia

A contingent of Masons marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during commemorations of the 60th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on March 9, 2025 in Selma, Alabama. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

‘So important’: 60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ Selma honours US civil rights struggle, sacrifices

A man walks past a closed United States Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Abidjan on March 6, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the United States was cancelling 83 per cent of programmes at USAID. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Rubio: US cancels 83pc of USAID programmes after Trump’s foreign aid freeze

Ratu Thalisa was found guilty by a court in Medan city on the western island of Sumatra of spreading hatred under a widely-criticised online hate-speech law in a TikTok livestream, Dapot Dariarma of the local prosecutor’s office told AFP. — Pexels pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Indonesia court jails transgender woman for Jesus remark, sparking rights outcry

In recent years, Beijing has ramped up its military pressure against the island, including holding several rounds of war games, keeping alive the prospect of the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. — Reuters pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

China vows utmost efforts for ‘peaceful reunification’ with Taiwan

The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output of chatbots by flooding large language models (LLM) with pro-Kremlin falsehoods. ― Reuters pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Russian disinformation ‘infects’ AI chatbots, researchers warn

Zelenskiy is expected to meet Mohammed bin Salman, whose Saudi Arabia has played various mediating roles since Russia’s 2022 invasion, including brokering prisoner exchanges and hosting talks between Russia and the United States last month. — Reuters file pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Zelenskiy heads to Saudi Arabia ahead of crunch US talks

The firebrand Duterte unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the ICC’s founding treaty in 2019 when it started looking into allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Philippines’ Duterte says he will accept arrest if ICC issues warrant

The Trump administration appears to be following Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint that calls NOAA one of the “main drivers of the climate change alarm industry” and proposes breaking it up. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Scientists say Trump cuts threaten climate research, public safety

Floodwaters reach the levee walls holding back the Wilsons River in Lismore on March 9, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Floods hit eastern Australia, 200,000 properties blacked out

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol reacts to his supporters as he arrives at the presidential residence in Seoul on March 8, 2025. Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from detention on March 8, after a court voided his arrest on procedural grounds -- but he remains under investigation over his declaration of martial law. — Yonhap pic via AFP
World / 10 Mar 2025

South Korea prosecutors to pursue Yoon’s conviction despite jail release

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney won praise for his handling of the financial crisis, when he created new emergency loan facilities and gave unusually explicit guidance on keeping rates at record low levels for a specific period of time. — Reuters pic
World / 10 Mar 2025

Who is Mark Carney? The crisis-fighting central banker who will lead Canada through US trade war