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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s lawyer Datuk Sankara Narayan Nair said he had acted on Anwar’s instructions to issue a letter of demand today to PAS deputy president Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man over a ‘series of allegedly defamatory statements made outside Parliament on June 14, 2026 against the prime minister and subsequently republished on social media’. — Pictures by Bernama/Hari Anggara
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Lawyer: Anwar will sue for defamation if PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim fails to respond in 48 hours

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim delivers his speech during the launching of the new Menara Merdeka Maybank in Kuala Lumpur, July 30, 2026. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

‘This is even fancier than the PM’s office’: Anwar launches Maybank’s new headquarters at Menara Merdeka Maybank

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak gets a temporary reprieve in his lawsuit against former Attorney General Tan Sri Tommy Thomas, but the Federal Court warned him that it will not allow any more delays next time. — Bernama file pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Heart op recovery keeps Najib from court in bid to revive suit against ex-AG Thomas, but majority grants delay — with a warning

Benteng Ampangan, a food court and local hangout for Ampangan folks and others in the vicinity, right opposite of it is the Ampangan UTC. — Picture by Soo Wern Jun
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

As polling day nears, what’s on Negeri Sembilan voters’ minds?

Customers at Muiz Hot Chicken restaurant in Pagoh Jaya, which serves fried chicken, burgers and nasi lemak, July 30, 2026. — Bernama pic
Life  / 14 h ago

Muiz Hot Chicken founder turns RM20 profit into RM45m business, eyes Brunei and Singapore

A Malaysian official screens a Rohingya refugee ahead of repatriation to Myanmar. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Home Ministry starts refugee checks as Malaysia prepares to send back 5,000 Myanmar nationals

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that good governance is an ongoing moral and institutional effort and pointed out that systems cannot rely on policies alone. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Special Parliament sitting on Tabung Haji RCI report set for Aug 11, says Anwar

In a statement posted late last night on Facebook, TH said it undertook the restructuring after facing what it described as a widening financial deficit that required urgent government intervention to ensure the fund remained solvent and could continue declaring profit distributions under the Tabung Haji Act. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Malaysia  / 2 h ago

Tabung Haji defends 2018 restructuring, says RM10b asset sale prevented insolvency

Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the programme was inspired not merely by statistics, but by what he repeatedly witnessed during constituency programmes with taxi drivers. — Picture via Facebook/JPJ
Malaysia  / 4 h ago

A fresh start: Teksi Madani policy looks at uplifting taxi drivers

R. Alex, 28, was charged in the Teluk Intan Magistrates’ Court with four offences, including two counts of murder, over a crash that killed two teenage girls. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Driver charged with murder over Teluk Intan crash killing two teenage schoolgirls

Bursa Malaysia expects one or two large initial public offerings in the second half of 2026 after raising its full-year IPO market capitalisation target to RM34 billion. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Money  / 18 h ago

Big listings incoming: Bursa expects up to two major IPOs before year-end

Communications Minister Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil said the MCMC had been asked to invite telecommunications companies (telcos) to meet with Starlink to explore opportunities for deploying the technology, which does not necessarily depend on existing telecommunications infrastructure. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Starlink to trial satellite-to-phone internet service in Malaysia, says Fahmi

In a statement today, the AGC said the move was aimed at ensuring that all aspects of investigations by the relevant enforcement agencies are carried out thoroughly and comprehensively, enabling due consideration to be given to whether any breaches of the law warrant prosecution. — Picture by Raymond Manuel
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Tabung Haji RCI report: AGC to assess findings for possible prosecution

Astronomer Daniel Mello uses a laser to point out the Milky Way during a stargazing event at Desengano State Natural Park, Rio de Janeiro, June 26, 2023. — AFP pic
Life  / 14 h ago

Argentine astronomer Amina Helmi wins Kavli Prize for uncovering Milky Way’s violent past

Nova Widianto will leave his role as Malaysia’s mixed doubles head coach at the end of July after more than three years with BAM. — Image via Facebook/Badminton Association of Malaysia
Sports  / 18 h ago

Nova Widianto to leave BAM after guiding Malaysia to historic mixed doubles badminton world title

Hadi Matar was convicted of terrorism over the August 2022 stabbing that left novelist Salman Rushdie blind in one eye. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Author Salman Rushdie’s would-be killer convicted of terror charges over 2022 New York stabbing

Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington July 29, 2026. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Former top US Covid expert Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in fiery Senate hearing

A fireman sprays water to extinguish a fire in the town of Plomari on the Greek island of Lesbos on July 29, 2026. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Three firefighters killed as gale-force winds fan wildfires across Greece

Winston Peters’ remarks to Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan prompted a rare public intervention from China’s ambassador to New Zealand, Wang Xiaolong. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

New Zealand foreign minister sparks diplomatic firestorm after telling China-born MP to ‘go back’

This US Navy handout photograph released on July 28, 2026, by US Central Command Public Affairs shows a US sailor signalling an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush on July 21, 2026. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

US military launches ‘powerful’ retaliatory strikes on Iran

A specially modified Airbus A350-1000ULR lands in France after completing a 24-hour and 24-minute test flight from Australia. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Two sunsets, two dawns: Qantas’ new A350 completes epic 23,076km test flight

World / 1d ago

UK PM Burnham wants to end rough sleeping — the challenge runs deeper than the streets

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has emerged as the leading advocate of the Trump administration’s hard-line policy toward Cuba, a cause shaped by his family’s history and decades in politics. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

For US secretary of state Rubio, Cuba policy is more than foreign affairs — it’s personal

Aerial view of a propaganda banner of Peru’s president-elect Keiko Fujimori at a settlement called Keiko Fujimori in the Ventanilla district, in the constitutional province of Callao, Peru, on July 18, 2026. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

As crime surges, Fujimori loyalists hope a familiar name can restore order in Peru

A burnt-out statue sits on a scorched garden following a wildfire in Pelayos de la Presa, 65km south-west of Madrid, on July 28, 2026. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Returning home after the wildfires, one Spanish village confronts what remains

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters wave national flags a day after the resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Mumbai on July 26, 2026, as protests over alleged NEET exam irregularities were called off. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

India’s youth protests puncture Modi’s aura of political invincibility

A commercial vessel passes through an international shipping lane off Yemen's Hanish Island in the Red Sea on July 27, 2026. A Houthi spokesman said on July 24 that the rebels were not blocking traffic through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, after they declared a maritime embargo this week on their foe Saudi Arabia. The Iran-backed group attacked a Saudi ship in the nearby Red Sea after announcing the blockade, which threatens the top oil exporter's ability to get its supplies to the world following Iran's parallel blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the kingdom's only other maritime route. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Yemen govt says Houthis planning to impose fees for Red Sea transit

This photo shows the water level of the Garonne River in the city centre of Toulouse, southwestern France on July 28, 2026. The persistence of high temperatures and the absence of significant precipitation in the Haute-Garonne departement have led to a deteriorated hydrological situation, prompting the prefect to tighten restrictions on water use since July 18, 2026. The United Kingdom as well as many other countries in Europe are also battling with hot weather and wildfires. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

UK govt: Record drought grips England

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham meets residents as he visits social care organisation Jewish Care, in north west London on July 29, 2026. — AFP pool pic
World / 1d ago

UK PM says determined to fix care crisis for older citizens

A man holds a placard during a victory gathering organised by the All India Students' Association (AISA) in Bengaluru on July 26, 2026 a day after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) ended their protest in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar following the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET examination irregularities. — AFP pic
World / 1d ago

India lower house passes bill raising penalties for exam leaks

A collapsed chimney is seen inside the Nippon Paper Industries' Yatsushiro Mill, in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 29, 2026, after an earthquake struck southwestern Japan the previous day. — Jiji Press via AFP pic
World / 1d ago

Rescue attempts continue in wake of Japan quake