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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  / 19 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

People sit in a shelter after air raid sirens sounded warning of a fresh barrage of Iranian rockets in the Israeli city of Haifa on June 24, 2025. Taiwan will issue new air-raid guidance for its citizens next week, according to security officials and internal planning documents reviewed by Reuters, learning lessons from Ukraine and Israel in case it needs to counter a Chinese military attack. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Taiwan to roll out new air-raid guidance, drawing lessons from Ukraine and Israel

Truong My Lan, 68, was convicted last year of swindling money from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) — which prosecutors said she controlled — and sentenced to death for fraud with damages totalling US$27 billion — equivalent to around six percent of the country’s GDP. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Vietnam tycoon spared death penalty in record US$27b fraud case after law change

The Morning Midas cargo ship, which had been ablaze for nearly three weeks while carrying 3,000 vehicles, has sunk in the Pacific Ocean. — Picture from social media
World / 25 Jun 2025

Burning car carrier bound for Mexico sinks in Pacific, 3,000 vehicles lost

New York mayoral candidate and State Representative Zohran Mamdani (D-NY) speaks to supporters during an election night gathering at The Greats of Craft LIC in Long Island City, Queens, after winning the Democratic nomination for mayor, June 24, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo in New York mayor race upset

Vehicles drive past a huge banner on Enghelab (Revolution) Square, in Tehran on June 24, 2025. Iran said Wednesday that it executed three men accused of spying for Israel, the day after a truce between the two countries came into effect. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Iran executes three over alleged Mossad ties, day after truce with Israel

This handout photograph provided by the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration on June 24, 2025, shows local residents with their belongings gathered outside a damaged residential building following a missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — Dnipropetrovs’k Regional Military Administration handout pic via AFP
World / 25 Jun 2025

Russia rains missiles on Ukraine, killing 19 as pressure mounts on Dnipropetrovsk

More than 80,000 people have been forced to evacuate after severe floods hit China’s southwestern Guizhou province, state media reported Wednesday. — Screengrab from X/Volcaholic
World / 25 Jun 2025

China floods force 80,000 to flee; Guizhou football field buried under three metres of water (VIDEO)

File picture of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, January 7, 2024. — NTSB handout pic via Reuters
World / 25 Jun 2025

‘Missing bolts, missing oversight’: Boeing, FAA blamed for Alaska Airlines 737 MAX incident

This handout photo, taken on June 23, 2025, by Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), shows rescue workers attempting to evacuate Juliana Marins, a Brazilian national who fell into a ravine on Mount Rinjani, Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, after going missing on June 21. — Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) handout pic via AFP
World / 25 Jun 2025

Brazilian hiker found dead after fall at Indonesia’s Mount Rinjani

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament the Labour administration would invest £600 million in its intelligence services as a result of the findings. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Britain flags surge in China-linked spying, eyes £600m intelligence upgrade

US President Donald Trump, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Dutch Queen Maxima, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte pose for a picture ahead of a dinner hosted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Dutch Queen Maxima, on the sidelines of a Nato Summit, at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, Netherlands June 24, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Trump shakes Nato with defence ultimatum, dodges commitment to protect Europe

Palestinians walk back, carrying parcels collected from a food aid distribution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on the Salaheddin road, at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 24, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Israel shifts focus back to Gaza as 46 more killed at aid sites, UN slams ‘abomination’ of US-backed system

A satellite image shows airstrike craters over the underground centrifuge halls of the Natanz Enrichment Facility, following US airstrikes amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Natanz County, Iran, June 22, 2025. — Maxar Technologies handout pic via Reuters
World / 25 Jun 2025

US intel: Strikes didn’t destroy Iran’s nuclear programme, only set it back by months

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi arrives for an extraordinary IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 23, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Could Iran build a bomb in secret? What the IAEA can — and can’t — see

Members of the Dutch army patrol ahead of the Nato summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 23, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 25 Jun 2025

Nato’s billion-euro gamble: Why allies are bracing for war and betting big on defence

Activists from international environmental group Greenpeace display a giant banner featuring a photo of Jeff Bezos and the message
World / 24 Jun 2025

Private jets and public anger as Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos celebrates wedding in fragile Venice