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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

South Korea’s President-elect Lee Jae-myung departs for the National Assembly to attend his inauguration ceremony, in Incheon, South Korea, June 4, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Lee Jae-myung takes power in South Korea after landslide snap election win

Members of a church gather for prayer beside a memorial at the scene of an attack that injured multiple people, outside the Boulder County Courthouse, in Boulder, Colorado, June 2, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

Colorado Molotov attack suspect’s family detained by US immigration amid hate crime probe

Elon Musk’s loud opposition to a bill that US President Donald Trump has urged Republicans to pass presents a test of his political influence a week after leaving his formal role in the administration as a special government employee with the Department of Government Efficiency came to an end. — AFP pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

‘Pork-filled disgrace’: Musk rips Trump’s spending bill as ‘a disgusting abomination’

A person sits at a desk inside of a mobile FEMA command centre in downtown Dawson Springs, Kentucky, the US on December 14, 2021 after tornadoes ripped through several states. — Reuters pic
World / 04 Jun 2025

FEMA 101: How America handles disasters, and why that’s now in question

Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

‘You don’t have to climb Arafat’: Saudi tells pilgrims as Haj heat soars past 40°C

Palestinians transport people who were injured in Israeli strikes on displacement tents in Khan Yunis, to the Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Israeli forces open fire on Gaza crowd at aid site, killing at least 27 Palestinians

Dutch radical right party PVV leader Geert Wilders addresses the media as he arrives for the weekly coalition talks in the Lower House in The Hague, on June 3, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Dutch govt collapses as far-right leader Wilders pulls out over immigration row

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, were arrested on February 1 after being stopped at Bali’s international airport with 17 packages of cocaine that weighed nearly a kilogramme, according to public court records. They appeared in court alongside Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, who was allegedly due to receive the packages and arrested a few days later. 
World / 03 Jun 2025

Bali drug trial begins for three Brits facing possible death penalty

US investor Todd Boehly’s consortium agreed a deal to buy Chelsea from Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich for £4.25 billion on May 7, 2025 and the sale has now been officially rubber-stamped. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

UK warns Abramovich: £2.5b Chelsea sale funds must go to Ukraine, or face court

The Karachi jailbreak was one of the largest ever in Pakistan, according to local law minister Zia-ul-Hasan Lanjar. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Post-quake, jail break: Pakistan recaptures 46 inmates, total escapees still unclear

The junta, which seized power in a 2021 coup sparking a many-sided civil war, said it would cease attacking its myriad armed opponents following a magnitude-7.7 quake on March 28, 2025 that killed more than 3,700 people. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Myanmar junta extends ceasefire to June after deadly March quake

The vehicle belonging to Mexican musical group Grupo Fugitivo is seen outside the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Forced Disappearances, after Mexican authorities confirmed that five members of the band were found dead, in Reynosa, Mexico May 29, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Kidnapped, killed and dumped: Police nab three more suspects after Fugitivo band lured to death in Mexico

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Marmaris area in southwestern Turkiye on June 3, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Teen dies, dozens injured as 5.8 quake rocks Turkiye’s tourist belt

The court previously heard the relationship between the accused and her estranged husband, Simon Patterson (pic), deteriorated shortly before the alleged murders due to a disagreement over child support. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

‘I feel ashamed’: Australian mushroom murder accused breaks down in court over damning texts

A drone view shows volcanic steam rising from Mount Etna, as seen from Milo, Italy, June 2, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Italy’s Mount Etna unleashes dramatic eruption with lava fountain and 6.5km ash plume

A farmer walks at a coca leaf plantation in Argelia, Cauca department, Colombia on May 5, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 03 Jun 2025

Will paying farmers to uproot coca help end Colombia’s cocaine crisis?