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Thanavitha’s death at age eight on March 26, 2026 at a house in Taiping, Perak with suspicion falling on her biological parents and stepparents who were charged with murder on April 3, 2026 has shattered the town named for ‘great peace’. — Picture via Facebook/ Majlis Perbandaran Taiping

Malaysia / 19 h ago

An eight-year-old girl dies in Taiping, now her parents and stepparents will stand trial for murder

Train services on the Kelana Jaya Line were temporarily suspended following a passenger incident at Abdullah Hukum station. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 15 h ago

Passenger incident at Abdullah Hukum LRT station disrupts Kelana Jaya line service during rush hour

Entrepreneur Olivia Lopez Bennet Lopez, 45, who posts videos on social media under the handle ‘Ibu Olivia Lopez’, filed a defamation suit via law firm Messrs Asheeq Ali & Co against Malaysian Hindu Sangam president T. Ganesan. — Picture from Facebook/Oliviea Lopez

Malaysia / 17 h ago

TikToker sues Malaysian Hindu Sangam president for defamation after video linking her flower bathing service to fraud

A person captures a view of rain clouds enveloping Kuala Lumpur. The recent hot spell is easing as wetter weather moves across the country. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 15 h ago

Malaysia’s weather does a 180: Bye heat, hello afternoon storms

TS Kugenthiran, 25, pleads not guilty to two reckless and dangerous driving charges after his car hit two motorcyclists on Jalan Sultan Ismail in Kuala Lumpur on April 2, 2026. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 17 h ago

Jalan Sultan Ismail red light crash: Man in KL charged with dangerous driving after crashing into two bikers, causing one to lose his leg

Socso CEO Datuk Seri Mohammad Azman Aziz Mohammed (left) presents the Survivors’ Pension and Funeral Benefit to Nor Nadia Abdul Majid, widow of the late Amirul Hafiz Omar, a motorcyclist mowed down by a drunk and drugged Honda City driver, during a visit to the family home in Shah Alam, Selangor on April 3, 2026. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 17 h ago

Socso to provide RM2,888 monthly lifeline to Klang rider’s widow and three kids

At 6pm, the local currency strengthened to 4.0295/0350 against the greenback from 4.0365/0430 recorded at yesterday’s close. — Reuters pic

Money / 15 h ago

Ringgit rebounds to 4.02 against US dollar as Straits of Hormuz supply concerns ease

Mother of three Nor Nadia Abdul Majid, 32 is now pushing for justice and legal reforms while rebuilding her new life after her 33-year-old husband Hafiz Omar was killed by a 28-year-old laboratory assistant in a Honda City on Jalan Raya Barat, Klang, at 1.47am on March 29, 2026 while intoxicated by a combination of drugs and drink. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 18 h ago

After demanding a ‘life for a life’, Klang rider’s widow seeks tougher laws to end drugged driving

Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican has been appointed as of April 3, 2026 to lead the government’s Crisis Management Task Force and the Special Advisory Body to the Minister of Finance to decide daily on the action that Malaysia needs to take amid the Gulf war and global energy crisis. — File picture by Mukhriz Hazim

Malaysia / 18 h ago

Hassan Marican leads Malaysia's new crisis task force to monitor fuel, food supply amid West Asia conflict

One survivor is being treated at Hospital Sultanah Aminah in Johor Bahru following the crash. ― Pixabay pic

Malaysia / 16 h ago

Two teenagers killed, one injured after Perodua Ativa skids on Johor highway

More than 20 traders were affected when water overflowed from a damaged tank pipe at the market this morning. — Screengrab via Facebook video

Malaysia / 15 h ago

Contractor under scrutiny after second pipe failure floods Seremban Main Market

A general view shows a white Buddha statue shrouded in heavy pollution as smoke (top left) rises from a hillside wildfire in Pai April 1, 2026, west of Thailand’s second-largest city Chiang Mai. — AFP pic

World / 3 h ago

‘It’s suffocating’: Why Chiang Mai’s air is among the world’s worst right now

Police said the landowner had never authorised the sale of the property, which involved a proposed purchase of over 80 hectares of land in Sedenak. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Malaysia / 14 h ago

Man loses RM1.3m after ‘law firm’ allegedly releases deposit in fake land deal

BAM Performance Committee chairman Datuk Seri Lee Chong Wei said the national squad will not include any player who is not 100 per cent fit, including Paris Olympic bronze medallist Lee Zii Jia. — Bernama pic

Sports / 18 h ago

Lee Chong Wei: Fitness priority for Thomas Cup as BAM eyes 100pc ready squad, including Zii Jia

People attend a funeral ceremony for the Revolutionary Guards Navy Commander Alireza Tangsiri, who was killed in strikes, amid the US.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran. — Reuters pic

World / 18 h ago

Former Iranian foreign minister urges Tehran to strike US deal to end war