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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  / 3 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  / 14 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  / 15 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  / 16 h ago

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

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  / 19 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  / 17 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  / 15 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  / 19 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  / 16 h ago

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

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  / 1 h ago

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

People cross a street next to police vehicles after the shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney. — AFP pic
World  / 14 h ago

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

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  / 1 h ago

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

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  / 1 h ago

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

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  / 16 h ago

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

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  / 1 h ago

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

Wreckage showing the tail section of the Air India Boeing 787-8 is pictured in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad June 14, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Indian investigators retrieve black box data as search for answers continues after deadly Air India crash

This picture taken on June 24, 2025 and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 26, 2025 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his daughter Kim Ju Ae (3rd left), and his wife Ri Sol Ju (left) visiting the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area in Kangwon Province, North Korea. — KCNA via KNS handout pic via AFP
World / 26 Jun 2025

North Korea unveils ‘world-class’ beach resort with water slides, vows more to come

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said the purpose of her visit was to survey the ongoing crackdown on transnational crime and gauge the impact of border restrictions, which saw Thailand halting all vehicles, tourists and traders from all land border crossings into Cambodia. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Thai PM, Cambodia’s Hun Sen visit tense border amid troop buildup and political crisis

US physician-scientist Drew Weissman speaks during an interview with AFP in Mexico City on June 25, 2025. Drew Weissman, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine, voiced fears Wednesday that vaccine sceptics appointed by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr would block approvals of new vaccines. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Nobel laureate fears US will block life-saving shots as RFK Jr fills panel with sceptics

As of Thursday morning, 474 such earthquakes had been observed around the Tokara island chain, south of Kyushu, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Hundreds of earthquakes shake Japan’s remote Tokara Islands, agency warns of stronger tremors ahead

Palestinian photographer and Instagram star Motaz Azaiza in the middle of the crowd during an event at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia to collect donations for UNRWA, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 23, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

‘This is not me’: Reluctant Gazan war photographer Motaz Azaiza draws crowds, funds in US tour

File picture of US President Donald Trump arriving to address troops at the Al-Udeid air base south-west of Doha on May 15, 2025. Trump Wednesday likened Washington’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities to the US dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Trump compares US strike on Iran to Hiroshima, says it ‘ended a war’

File picture of barbed wire fences seen outside a shuttered Great Wall Park compound where Cambodian authorities said they had recovered evidence of human trafficking, kidnapping and torture during raids on suspected cybercrime compounds in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia September 21, 2022. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Amnesty: Cambodia turning blind eye as brutal scam compounds traffic victims, children

This photo shows an aerial view of flooded buildings and streets in Congjiang, in south-western China’s Guizhou province on June 25, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Six dead as floodwaters from upstream swamp China’s Guangxi, cyclone looms

Defendants stand during their corruption trial at the High People’s Court in Hanoi on June 26, 2025. A Vietnamese appeal court on June 26, 2025 slashed former property and aviation tycoon Trinh Van Quyet’s jail sentence in a US$146 million fraud and stock market manipulation case from 21 years to seven. Quyet and 49 others were punished for fraud, stock market manipulation, abuse of power and publishing incorrect stock market information. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Vietnamese tycoon’s jail term cut to seven years in US$146m stock fraud case

People walk past a cannabis shop on Sukhumvit Road, one of the most popular tourist spots in Bangkok, Thailand, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Thai cannabis shops in limbo as govt pushes for doctor-approved sales only

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, speaking at a conference in Naypyidaw, pledged to hold elections in December and January, according to state-run ‘The Global New Light of Myanmar’. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Myanmar junta eyes December-January for elections despite war, boycotts

Zohran Mamdani reacts as he walks during a watch party for his primary election, which includes his bid to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor in the upcoming November 2025 election, in New York City, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Zohran Mamdani on track to become NYC’s first Muslim mayor in shock primary win over Cuomo

This handout photograph taken and released on June 25, 2025 by Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) shows rescue personnel evacuating hiker Juliana Marins, a Brazilian national who went missing on June 21 at Mount Rinjani on Lombok island. — Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency handout pic via AFP
World / 26 Jun 2025

Indonesian rescuers recover Brazilian tourist’s body after fatal fall from Mount Rinjani

File picture of migrants of African origin trying to flee to Europe crammed on board of a small boat, as Tunisian coast guards prepare to transfer them onto their vessel, at sea between Tunisia and Italy, on August 10, 2023. Germany’s conservative-led government will stop funding groups that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, a foreign ministry source said Wednesday, prompting opposition parties to warn that the decision could worsen a ‘humanitarian crisis’. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Germany to cut funds for Mediterranean migrant rescues, sparking outcry

On the day her partner revealed he had been unfaithful, she poured gasoline on her grandfather’s mattress and threw a burning sheet of paper on the bed before fleeing the room. — Picture via pexels.com/Francesco Ungaro
World / 26 Jun 2025

‘Act of love’? French woman who burned grandfather alive gets five-year prison sentence