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Previously, a photo went viral showing the giant rocket replica with a Chinese flag placed on its wings.
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

Chinese flag on giant rocket replica in Tangkak sparks concerns, Johor cops probe after Umno Youth file report

According to police, the victim is believed to have slipped from the 33rd floor while trying to exit through the bathroom window after the bathroom door was damaged. She then fell into the 12th-floor corridor of the apartment. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Foreign student dies in 33rd floor fall while trying to exit bathroom through window at Kajang high-rise

The Kelantan state government has made it mandatory for food and beverage outlets in the state to obtain halal certification to renew their business licences. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

Halal compliance a must: Kelantan enforces new licensing rule for F&B outlets

Muhammad Syarifuddin Manan, 24, shows the police report and photos of his baby daughter’s condition, who is said to have fallen from the baby cot when he was met at the Kuala Terengganu District Police Headquarters, December 26, 2024. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Two-day-old baby falls onto road during hospital transfer: Terengganu dad files negligence report

The woman, in her 40s, filed the notice of motion, obtained by the media today, in the Federal Court last December 23, naming the director-general of the National Registration Department (NRD) and the Malaysian Government as respondents. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Indonesian woman seeks Federal Court’s nod to appeal for son’s Malaysian citizenship

A 24-year-old car wash assistant was sentenced to three months in jail by the magistrate’s court today after admitting to trespassing in a building for paranormal activity last Saturday. — Reuters pic
Malaysia  / 15 h ago

Ghost hunting at abandoned Batu Pahat mall lands car wash assistant in jail for trespassing

Thanakarn “Bank Leicester” Kanthee, 21, sold flowers and accepted paid challenges for a living. — Picture from Facebook/แบงค์ เลสเตอร์'
World  / 14 h ago

Thai garland seller ‘Bank Leicester’, 21, dies after whisky challenge, sparking outrage; activist offers legal help

A 28-year-old former security guard has been awarded RM1.8 million in compensation due to medical negligence at Taiping Hospital, Perak, and by four others involved in his treatment following an accident, which led to permanent brain injuries. — Reuters pic
Malaysia  / 16 h ago

Medical negligence at Taiping Hospital leads to RM1.8m payout for brain injury victim

Telegram and WeChat are taking steps to secure official licenses to operate in Malaysia, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced today. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
Malaysia  / 17 h ago

MCMC: Telegram, WeChat set to meet licensing requirements, warns others to comply or face consequences

MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki said the MACC will also carry out a transformation of the MACC structure, namely improving the assignment approach and empowering the functions and roles of each division to be more effective in carrying out duties. — Bernama pic
Malaysia  / 19 h ago

MACC chief: Grand corruption cases, national asset recovery in agency’s crosshairs for 2025

According to the charge, the oil palm plantation worker was accused of storing obscene videos and images on his mobile phone at a house in Sri Medan in Batu Pahat at 11.15pm on December 23. — Reuters file pic
Malaysia  / 18 h ago

Court fines Batu Pahat man RM4,000 for filming explicit videos of granny, aunt and cousin  

The fire on December 26, 2024 destroyed 40 per cent of the hospital generator room measuring 5.5sqm, according to the Fire Department. — Picture from Wikipedia
Malaysia  / 13 h ago

Fire breaks out in Seremban hospital generator room; cause likely from lorry snagging electrical cable outside

At 6pm on December 26, 2024, the ringgit rose to 4.4670/4715 against the US dollar — Picture by Hari Anggara
Money  / 13 h ago

Ringgit up against US dollar on oil prices at market close to petrol producing Malaysia’s gain

Ipoh Mayor Datuk Rumaizi Baharin @ Md Daud (right) said the new Valuation List includes a reduction in the assessment tax rates and was published in the Perak state government gazette on December 26, 2024. — File picture by Farhan Najib
Malaysia  / 12 h ago

Ipoh city council cuts assessment rate by up to 2pc after residents object

Sporting Lisbon's Portuguese coach Joao Pereira reacts during the Portuguese League football match between Gil Vicente FC and Sporting CP at the at the Cidade de Barcelos stadium in Barcelos, on December 22, 2024. — AFP pic
Sports  / 14 h ago

Sporting sack Amorim's successor Joao Pereira after just weeks in charge, replaced by Rui Borges

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told students that the United States and Israel will 'undoubtedly receive a crushing response.' — Wana pic via Reuters
World / 02 Nov 2024

Khamenei says US, Israel face ‘crushing response’ for confronting Iran, state media reports

More than 70 million Americans have already cast ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida, below the record early-voting pace in 2020 during Covid-19, but still indicating a high level of voter enthusiasm. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Trump, Harris head to North Carolina in US election campaign’s final weekend

People walk along a muddy street on November 1, 2024, following the devastating effects of flooding in the town of Alfafar, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Thousands join effort to clean up catastrophic Spanish floods

Former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison poses for a booking photograph at Shelby County Detention Center in Shelbyville, Kentucky September 23, 2020. — Shelby County Detention Centre handout via Reuters
World / 02 Nov 2024

Former US cop convicted of civil rights abuse in Breonna Taylor case

People take part in a protest against what they say are killings of environmental activists, at the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 31, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

UN COP16 nature summit creates permanent body for Indigenous peoples

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday labelled Donald Trump the ‘more dangerous’ option in next week’s US presidential election but slammed Harris for Israel support. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Greta Thunberg says Trump ‘more dangerous’, then criticises Harris over Israel, tells Americans don’t settle for least worst option

A Russian student will face trial this month for treason on behalf of Ukraine, a court said Friday, after the 20-year-old was jailed in Chechnya for allegedly burning the Quran. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Russian student jailed for Quran burning now faces new treason trial for alleged ties to Ukraine’s security service

Men carry a body inside a blanket in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 1. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

No permanent ceasefire, no truce: Hamas rejects mediators’ proposal

Richard Moore, 59, was pronounced dead at 6.24pm after receiving a lethal injection at a prison in state capital Columbia, media witnesses said. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

South Carolina executes black man convicted by all-white jury amid claims of self-defence

Businesses were boarding up in Washington as the US capital braced for Tuesday’s knife-edge presidential election — and any potential repeat of the shocking violence that erupted in the wake of 2020’s vote. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Fort Washington: Businesses brace for unrest as election anxiety peaks

This picture taken in Moscow on October 5, 2021 shows the US online social media and social networking service Facebook's logo on a smartphone screen. Dozens of Facebook groups bill themselves as Kamala Harris fan pages but mount racist attacks, criticise her record on immigration and promote her rival Donald Trump, in what disinformation researchers call a ‘bait-and-switch’ tactic aimed at deceiving voters in a tight US election race. — AFP pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

Deceptive ‘bait-and-switch’ Facebook groups spread disinformation targeting US voters with anti-Kamala Harris posts

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan October 31, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 02 Nov 2024

‘Empty words’: Climate action stalls a year on as world clings to fossil fuels

This photograph taken on October 9, 2024 shows an elite police personnel monitoring security at a post on a sandy island along the Indus river, in the 'Katcha lands' at Rahim Yar Khan district. On TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram Pakistani gangster Shahid Lund Baloch fascinates tens-of-thousands with defiant messages delivered gun-in-hand, glamourising his exile lifestyle and cultivating a ‘Robin Hood’ reputation. — AFP pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

‘Beloved brother bandit’: TikTok-famed outlaw terrorises, transfixes Pakistan riverlands as authorities struggle to catch him

The Kremlin says the choice of who becomes the next US president is a matter exclusively for the American people and that it will work with whoever is elected. — Sputnik pic via Reuters
World / 01 Nov 2024

‘Vladimir, let’s talk’: Putin and Trump’s uneasy bromance — from admiration to geopolitical clashes

Firefighters pump floodwater out of a tunnel where vehicles are piled up, after heavy rains in Alfafar, in Valencia, November 1, 2024. — Reuters pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

Spain flood death toll hits 205 as Valencia opens temporary morgue

People check the devastation in the aftermath of Israeli strikes in the neighbourhood of Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburbs on November 1, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. — AFP pic
World / 01 Nov 2024

WHO ‘deeply concerned’ about ‘rising attacks’ on Lebanon healthcare