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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

Police officers stand guard on the day of the second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at Ciragan Palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 2, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Russia says it has Ukraine’s peace proposal ahead of Istanbul talks

Erin Patterson, 50, is charged with the July 2023 murders of her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, along with the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband, in a case that has gripped Australia. — Supreme Court of Victoria handout pic via AFP
World / 02 Jun 2025

Mushroom murder trial: Australian woman accused of killing three gives evidence, cites marital rift

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said his government will still file the complaint even if Thailand refuses to take their border dispute to the ICJ. — AFP pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Cambodia demands justice at ICJ after deadly Emerald Triangle shootout with Thailand

Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, 42, a eurosceptic historian and amateur boxer who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure economic and social policies favour Poles over other nationalities, including refugees from neighbouring Ukraine. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Polish eurosceptic Nawrocki wins presidential vote, electoral commission says

File picture of migrant workers harvesting strawberries at a farm near Oxnard, California in the US. Workers’ rights around the world are ‘in free fall’, with widespread attempts to hamstring collective bargaining and attacks on trade union representatives, the world’s largest trade union organisation said Monday. — AFP pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Workers’ rights in global free fall: 87pc of countries violate strikes, 80pc cripple collective bargaining

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to Royal Navy Submariners of the HMS Agamemnon nuclear submarine and to BAE system apprentices outside of the BAE system factory, in Barrow-in-Furness, Britain, March 20, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

UK to unveil major defence review to confront ‘new era of threat’ amid rising Russian aggression

File picture of a reticulated python. The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, had the snakes ‘concealed in checked-in baggage’, Mumbai Customs said in a statement late Sunday. — AFP file pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Snakes on a plane: Indian customs nab passenger with 44 venomous vipers from Thailand

A woman stands next to debris from damaged buildings in Mokwa in Nigeria on June 1, 2025, after the town was hit by torrential rains overnight Wednesday into Thursday, with the flooding displacing more than 3,000 people. — AFP pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Rescuers fan out as over 150 dead, thousands displaced after Nigeria flooding wrecks market town

A drone view shows the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen, organised by the international NGO Freedom Flotilla Coalition, anchored off the coast of Catania, Italy, on June 1, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Activist boat with Gaza aid, Greta Thunberg aboard, sets sail from Sicily

File picture of Palestinian Hamas fighters keeping guard on the day Hamas hands over deceased hostages, identified at the time by Palestinian groups as Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children Kfir and Ariel Bibas, seized during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, to the Red Cross, as part of a ceasefire and hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip February 20, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Hamas signals willingness for new indirect Gaza ceasefire talks with Israel

Beijing and Washington last month agreed to temporarily slash staggeringly high levies on each other for 90 days after talks between top officials in Geneva. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Beijing hits back: China ‘firmly rejects’ US accusation of violating tariff deal

Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, speaks next to his wife Marta Nawrocka, his sons Antoni and Daniel and daughter Katarzyna, as he reacts to the exit polls of the second round of the presidential election, in Warsaw, Poland, June 1, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Poland veers right: Trump-backed nationalist projected to win presidency, dealing blow to pro-EU government

A man buys food at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, in this file picture dated October 2, 2023. The handout scheme is popular across Thailand, with its continuation backed by about 60 per cent of 1,310 respondents in a May survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, while about 46 per cent said they would be angered if it was scrapped. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Broken promises, bitter voters: Thailand’s stalled cash handout backfires on ruling party

Smoke and flames rise from a house hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City, June 1, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a video. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

‘They told us to take food, then they fired’: MSF blames US-backed group for Gaza aid chaos, deadly shootings

File picture of a Ukrainian service member of the 14th Unmanned Aerial Systems Regiment preparing a deep strike unmanned aerial vehicle before its launch toward Russian territory, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, undisclosed date, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Ukraine claims US$7b blow to Russian bombers in bold drone strike ahead of ceasefire talks

Chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Mohammad Tajul Islam (centre) speaks during a press conference in Dhaka on June 1, 2025, after the start of the trial against Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. — AFP pic
World / 02 Jun 2025

Bangladesh’s fugitive ex-PM Hasina accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ in protest crackdown trial