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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  / 5 h ago

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

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  / 16 h ago

One gold, two silver, six bronze: Malaysia’s badminton chief admits shortfall, open to stepping down after SEA Games results

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  / 17 h ago

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

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 18 h ago

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

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  / 18 h ago

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

Rain clouds are seen over the city centre in Kuala Lumpur, on Dec 8, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 2 h ago

METMalaysia issues thunderstorm warning for Klang Valley, six states until 1pm

In a statement uploaded on his Facebook page, Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi said the declaration was made in compliance with the decree of the Regent of Johor, Tunku Mahkota Ismail, as a mark of celebration for the team’s outstanding achievement in continuing its dominance in Malaysian football. — Picture from Facebook/Onn Hafiz Ghazi
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

Johor declares special public holiday after JDT’s FA Cup 2025 win, SPM exams to proceed as scheduled

Despite nearly 80 per cent of speed tests being conducted on 5G-capable devices, most Malaysian users still spend two-thirds of their time on 4G networks due to coverage gaps. — Picture by Mukhriz Hashim
Malaysia  / 3 h ago

Malaysia’s 5G speeds have nearly halved as network comes under strain, Ookla reports

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  / 17 h ago

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

People hold placards during a Hanukkah menorah lighting in Berlin, Germany on December 14, 2025, in solidarity with Australians after the Bondi Beach shooting. — AFP pic
World  / 3 h ago

Fruit seller disarms Bondi Beach gunman, now hospitalised with gunshot wounds as world hail him as ‘hero’

Personal belongings lie at the scene of a deadly shooting during a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025. — AFP pic
World  / 3 h ago

Bondi shooting leaves 16 dead as Australian police identify father-and-son gunmen in alleged antisemitic attack

According to the author, DAP’s quiet on key issues—from Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s DNAA to Tan Sri Azam Baki’s contract extension and ongoing corruption under Madani — risks alienating Chinese voters, a lesson already seen in Sabah’s polls. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
What You Think  / 2 h ago

The end of DAP’s ‘Golden Era’? — Izmil Amri

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  / 18 h ago

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

People cross a street next to police vehicles after the shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 16 h ago

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

Mosti is holding STI Madani Carnivals nationwide to empower young Malaysians and boost the country’s chances to reach developed nationhood. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Malaysia needs 70pc of jobs in STEM to reach developed nation status, says Mosti official

A member of the shariah police holds a rattan stick during a public caning in Banda Aceh on June 4, 2025. A man and woman were publicly flogged 100 times each in Indonesia’s Aceh province on June 4 after they were found guilty of sex outside marriage by a court operating under strict Islamic law. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Unmarried couple flogged 100 times in Indonesia’s Aceh for sex outside marriage under strict Shariah law

This handout picture taken and released on May 29, 2025 by the Royal Thai Army shows the Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army (RTA) General Pana Klaewplodthuk (right) and the Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army General Mao Sophan (left) walking during a meeting at the Chong Chom border crossing in Thailand’s Surin province. — Royal Thai Army handout pic via AFP
World / 04 Jun 2025

Thailand, Cambodia to meet June 14 over deadly border clash, seek peaceful resolution

Journalists wait at the entrance to the Chalatenango Judicial Center, where a public hearing is being held against three high military commanders accused of ordering the murder of four Dutch journalists during El Salvador’s civil war (1979-1992) in Chalatenango, El Salvador on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

After 42 years, El Salvador convicts ex-military over Dutch journalists’ deaths in civil war ambush

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung speaks during a press conference at the Presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung takes office, vows to ‘heal wounds’ with North Korea after snap election win

A drone view shows a combine harvester working on a hilly wheat field at the drought-hit Yongshou county in Xianyang, Shaanxi province, China May 29, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Drought grips China’s wheat belt, farmers report up to 50pc drop in yields

A court sketch drawn from a video link shows Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, appearing as a witness for her own defence, at the Latrobe Valley Magistratess Court in Morwell, Australia, June 2, 2025. — AAP handout pic via Reuters
World / 04 Jun 2025

Australia’s mushroom murder suspect says toxic fungi may have been foraged by mistake

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting with a group of teachers in Tehran May 17, 2025. Khamenei said on Wednesday a US proposal for a nuclear deal was against Tehran’s national interests, and that the country would not abandon uranium enrichment. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Iran’s supreme leader snubs US nuclear offer, vows enrichment will continue

The document, which was obtained by Anadolu, expresses ‘grave concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation, including the risk of famine,’ and recalls the obligation of all parties to abide by international humanitarian and human rights law. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Slovenia leads UN push for Gaza ceasefire, vote expected Wednesday

A drone image shows wind turbines surrounded by clam and shrimp farms in Changhua, Taiwan, May 16, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

‘Green energy is great, but…’: Taiwan fishermen say they’re paying wind farm price

General view of the grand mosque during Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 3, 2025. — Saudi Press Agency handout pic via Reuters
World / 04 Jun 2025

Haj 2025 kicks off under scorching sun as Saudi Arabia eyes heat prevention

A rescuer stands on the rubble of the al-Bursh family home, after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 2, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Gaza ceasefire push set to fail at UN Security Council as Israel’s ally US expected to veto and block end to fighting

A family rides a motorcycle along a street in Hanoi on June 4, 2025. Vietnam has scrapped a long-standing policy of limiting families to two children, state media said on June 4, as the communist-run country contends with a declining birth rate. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Vietnam axes two-child limit amid population concerns

People look at burning tyres blocking a street in Bordeaux, south-western France on late June 29, 2023, during riots and incidents nationwide after the killing of a 17-year-old boy by a police officer's gunshot following a refusal to comply in a western suburb of Paris. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

French police officer to face trial over teen’s killing that ignited 2023 riots

A medical worker inspects a body at the site of Russian military strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine in Sumy, June 3, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

No quick peace: Russia rules out breakthrough in ‘complex’ Ukraine talks

Crewmembers of Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force guided missile destroyer JS Shimakaze hold a US flag towards the US Navy oiler USNS Harvey Milk during an exercise in the Virginia Capes’ (VACAPES) operating area in the Atlantic Ocean, September 24, 2024. — LaShawn Sykes/US Navy handout pic via Reuters
World / 04 Jun 2025

‘Reestablishing warrior culture’: Pentagon to rename ship honouring gay icon Harvey Milk

A faithful enters the Errahma mosque in Villeurbanne, central France, on June 3, 2025. A Quran was stolen and burnt at a mosque in Villeurbanne, on the outskirts of Lyon, the mosque’s owners announced on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Man arrested in France after Quran stolen, burned outside Lyon mosque