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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  / 13 h ago

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

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  / 1 h ago

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

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi attends the 33rd All Malaysian Indian Progressive Front (IPF Malaysia) general assembly in Hulu Langat December 14, 2025. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Zahid cautions BN component parties against exit, says there will be ‘no way back’

Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 14 h ago

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

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  / 13 h ago

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

Malaysia secured its first badminton gold of the SEA Games today after national women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and M Thinaah triumphed in Bangkok. — Reuters pic
Sports  / 17 h ago

Pearly Tan–Thinaah break the spell as Malaysia finally strikes SEA Games gold

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  / 15 h ago

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

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  / 14 h ago

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

The Kuala Terengganu High Court ruled today that the earlier defamation trial against Clare Rewcastle-Brown was invalid and must be reheard. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Kuala Terengganu High Court orders retrial in Clare Rewcastle-Brown defamation case

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  / 15 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  / 12 h ago

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

Alert-level continuous rain warnings remain in place for parts of Perak, Pahang, Johor and Sarawak over the coming days. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

More heavy rain ahead: MetMalaysia issues warnings for Pahang, Perak, Johor, Kelantan, Terengganu and Sarawak until Dec 18

This screen grab of UGC video taken on December 14, 2025 and received courtesy of Mike Ortiz shows beach-goers fleeing Bondi Beach after gunmen opened fire. — AFP pic
World  / 13 h ago

Israel says Sydney Bondi shooting was antisemitic attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah

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  / 14 h ago

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

Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said the party’s supreme council has not met to determine MIC’s political direction. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

MIC still part of BN as supreme council yet to decide on future ties, says deputy president

The location of the earthquake near southern Philippines. — Screengrab from US Geological Survey
World / 28 Jun 2025

No tsunami alert as 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes 70km from southern Philippines

Demonstrators holds up an anti-Trump sign outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 28 Jun 2025

US Supreme Court curbs judges from blocking Trump’s controversial policies, as critics warn of ‘step toward authoritarianism’

After more than 20 months of devastating conflict, rights groups say Gaza's population of more than two million face famine-like conditions. — AFP pic
World / 28 Jun 2025

Trump eyes Gaza ceasefire ‘within a week’ as over 500 already ‘slaughtered’ while seeking food near Israeli centres

Before the civil war erupted in 2011, Syria was self-sufficient in wheat, producing an average of 4.1 million tonnes annually. Nearly 14 years of conflict have since crippled production and devastated the economy. — AFP pic
World / 28 Jun 2025

Wheat becomes battleground as Syria’s worst drought in 60 years threatens 16 million

Palestinians gather at an aid distributution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip June 25, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 28 Jun 2025

Poverty rising, aid falling: UN summit confronts crisis of global solidarity

US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacts to a Sky News reporter’s question about Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte calling President Trump ‘daddy’, at the Nato summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

‘Daddy’s home’: Love-bombed in The Hague, Trump basks in Nato flattery

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a statement to the media at the Kremlin in Moscow May 11, 2025. This year’s Nato summit in The Hague, which ended on Wednesday, also highlighted the widening gap between how the US and Europe see the military ambitions of Russia, the bloc’s main foil. — Handout via Reuters
World / 27 Jun 2025

Following Nato summit, Trump and Europe still at odds over Putin’s ambitions

French gendarmes secure a perimeter near the site of a fatal shooting during a wedding party in Goult, in the southern French department of Vaucluse, on June 22, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Two charged with murder after deadly wedding shooting in southern France, bride killed and groom wounded

An Israeli court on Friday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to postpone giving testimony in his corruption trial, after US President Donald Trump said the case should be cancelled. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Israeli court denies Netanyahu’s request to delay corruption trial, despite Trump’s push for cancellation

This file photo taken on June 23, 2016 in Trondheim, Norway, shows Marius Borg Hoiby next to his mother Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit as they attend a garden party. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Norway’s crown princess son, Marius Borg Hoiby, under investigation for rape and a series of other offences

Thai police have found and defused four explosive devices at Phuket airport and at popular tourist destinations on the holiday island. — Unsplash pic/Anh Tuan To
World / 27 Jun 2025

Thai police thwart bomb plot, defuse explosives at Phuket airport and top tourist sites

(Left to right) Student protest leader Joshua Wong, Hong Kong pro-democracy party League of Social Democrats (LSD) chairman Avery Ng, pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, also known as ‘Long Hair’, and pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law hold a protest against their recent arrests and detention ahead of the visit by China’s President Xi Jinping, outside Civic Square at the Central Government Offices in Hong Kong June 30, 2017. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Hong Kong’s last major opposition party to disband after brutal crackdown

Supporters hold pictures of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a rally outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut to celebrate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, on June 25, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Israel would have killed Khamenei if opportunity arose, says Defence Minister Katz

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte arrives to file her counter affidavit in response to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) complaint over her alleged threat to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, at the Department of Justice in Manila on May 9, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Philippine prosecutors demand trial of VP Sara Duterte over alleged assassination plot and misuse of public funds

File picture of a plane taking off from Beijing’s Daxing International Airport at sunset on June 24, 2024. The move, which applies to anyone boarding a flight in China, follows a series of incidents globally involving lithium battery products, including power banks, overheating on planes. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

China bans uncertified, recalled power banks on flights amid safety fears

This combination of pictures created on June 27, 2025 shows Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (left) taking part in a business forum in Hanoi on May 16, 2025 and Cambodia’s then Prime Minister Hun Sen arriving to attend the EU-Asean summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels on December 14, 2022. Cambodia’s influential ex-premier Hun Sen on June 27, 2025 accused Thailand’s prime minister of insulting the Thai king, as tensions between the neighbouring countries intensified. — AFP pic
World / 27 Jun 2025

Cambodia’s Hun Sen accuses Thai PM of insulting monarch in leaked call fallout