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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

Buildings lie in ruin inside the Gaza strip, as seen from Israel, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Trump signals Gaza ceasefire ‘very close’ as pressure mounts on Netanyahu

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) reacts as US President Donald Trump addresses a press conference during a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague on June 25, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Trump hails ‘monumental win’ as Nato agrees to hike defence spending to 5pc of GDP

A woman walks past a residential building that was hit in an Israeli strike covered with a big Iranian flag, in Tehran on June 25, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Iran arrests dozens over alleged collaboration with Israel after ceasefire

File picture of US President Donald Trump speaking as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves following a meeting in the White House, in Washington, April 7, 2025. Trump weighed in on ally Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial Wednesday, urging for Israel’s ‘Great War Time Prime Minister’ to be exonerated after the conflict with Iran. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Trump calls for Netanyahu’s corruption trial be scrapped, calls it a ‘witch hunt’ after Iran war

A poster depicting US President Donald Trump prostrating in font of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Kamenei hangs in a southern Beirut suburb, on June 25, 2025. President Donald Trump insisted on June 25 that US strikes led to the ‘total obliteration’ of Iran’s nuclear capabilities and set the country’s atomic programme back ‘decades’, while Israel said it was still early to fully assess the damage. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Trump: US to hold nuclear talks with Iran next week after ‘obliterating’ strikes

A health worker administers a dose of the measles vaccine to a child during a measles vaccination drive in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 15, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Study warns of deadly fallout as childhood vaccine rates drop, millions at risk as measles and polio resurge

A group of climate activists block one of the entrances of the Swedish Parliament during a protest due to the lack of action from the Swedish authorities, on March 11, 2024, in Stockholm. Legal efforts to block or unwind action on climate change are rising across the globe, new research showed today, particularly in the United States which leads the world on anti-green litigation. — AFP pic
World / 26 Jun 2025

Report: Courts become battleground as lawsuits challenge climate policies worldwide

Flags of Nato and its member states are displayed along The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace in London April 3, 2024. Britain will reintroduce fighter jets capable of carrying atomic weapons to support Nato’s nuclear mission, expanding the country’s deterrence arsenal, which is currently limited to submarine-launched missiles, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said yesterday. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

UK to deploy nuclear-capable F-35A jets in Nato’s biggest deterrence shift in decades

Punnathat Phutthisawong, a staff member at a cannabis shop called ‘Green House Thailand’ arranges cannabis inside his shop on Khaosan Road, one of the favourite tourist spots in Bangkok, Thailand, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Politics over pot: Thailand moves to recriminalise cannabis, rattling US$1b industry

Supporters of Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump stand holding flags on Election Day, near Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida November 5, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

They voted for Trump — most still support him, but not without reservations

Moored boats (background) are seen past waves and whitecaps on the Huangpu river during the passage of Typhoon Bebinca in Shanghai on September 16, 2024. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

China, reeling from floods, braces for second tropical cyclone in two weeks

China’s top prosecutor has issued a rare admission that torture and unlawful detention takes place in the country’s justice system, vowing to crack down on illegal practices by law enforcement officials. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

China vows legal system crackdown following rare torture admission and reform pledge

US President Donald Trump said today that the damage to Iranian nuclear sites from missile strikes over the weekend was severe, though he also acknowledged that the available intelligence on the matter was inconclusive. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Trump claims Iran strikes caused ‘severe’ damage despite inconclusive intelligence

General view of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 23, 2025. Iran’s parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to suspend cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, state-affiliated news outlet Nournews reported. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Iran moves to cut UN nuclear watchdog ties, vows faster enrichment after Israeli, US strikes

US Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division rehearse crowd control tactics at a base in the greater Los Angeles area, California in this file picture dated June 10, 2025. A Japanese court sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison in the latest sexual assault case involving American military personnel. — US Marine Corps/Cpl. Jaye Townsend handout pic via Reuters
World / 25 Jun 2025

US marine jailed in Japan for attempted rape, choking woman in Okinawa

A street food vendor walks under the national and communist party flags of Vietnam in Hanoi on February 5, 2025. Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the government, state media said Wednesday. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

No more executions for spies, saboteurs as Vietnam slashes death penalty list