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Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex, in Kuala Lumpur December 4, 2024. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 15 h ago

Witness: Najib said ‘My God’, shocked, upset over RM42m entering his accounts via 1MDB’s CSR firm

Rapid Bus Sdn Bhd (Rapid Bus), the operator of Rapid Penang bus services, will expand its Rapid Penang On-Demand network with three new routes and two additional vans for the current route starting March 15. — Picture via Facebook/Rapid Penang

Malaysia / 17 h ago

Rapid Bus to launch three new routes, enhance On-Demand service with extra vans in Penang from March 15

A photo illustration of Bitcoin is seen at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Hong Kong on February 19, 2025. — AFP pic

Money / 19 h ago

Keep it on the DL — China tells bankers to stop showing off wealth

Lady Gaga poses at the red carpet during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, US, February 2, 2025. — Reuters pic

Showbiz / 19 h ago

Lady Gaga to play four nights in Singapore for her only Asia tour stop

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad today said that the ministry had agreed to a moratorium until May 1, for private general practitioners (GPs) to display the prices of medications in their clinics. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 16 h ago

Dzulkefly: Medication price display rule on hold until May 1

Irish Actor Pierce Brosnan arrives for the premiere of

Showbiz / 18 h ago

No to Jemma Bond? Brosnan says 007 should be British

Timur Laut district police chief ACP Abdul Rozak Muhammad said the 43-year-old man’s initial remand period ended today but he was rearrested in connection with the third police report. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri

Malaysia / 17 h ago

Police rearrest George Town doctor over multiple charges of indecent behaviour, third victim comes forward

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today cautioned the public against baseless narratives on social media posts, touching on the issue of the Muslim call to prayer. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 12 h ago

PM Anwar slams false narratives on Azan issue in Perak, urges unity

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said this marked an increase of RM1.46 billion compared to 2023. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 18 h ago

Malaysia’s tax revenue hits record RM184.8b in 2024, Anwar credits strict compliance enforcement

Protesters attend a demonstration against President Prabowo Subianto’s government, calling for various demands, including reviews of government budget cuts and the free nutritious meal programme for schools in front of a police barricade in Jakarta on February 21, 2025. Anger at the quality of life in South-east Asia’s biggest economy — a nation of 280 million known for pervasive corruption and nepotism — has stirred student protests and driven young and middle-aged professionals to seek jobs abroad. — AFP pic

World / 11 h ago

‘Exhausted and hopeless’: More Indonesians seek escape as anger over quality of life, economy grows

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is set to record statements from 23 new witnesses as part of its investigation into corruption and money laundering cases linked to former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. — Picture by Hari Anggara

Malaysia / 13 h ago

MACC to record statements from 23 more witnesses in Ismail Sabri alleged money laundering probe

At least eight important protocols or conventions by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) need to be signed and ratified before Malaysia can explore generating electricity using nuclear energy said the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti) Chang Lih Kang. — Bernama pic

Malaysia / 17 h ago

Mosti: Malaysia must sign at least eight protocols to use nuclear energy

Timur Laut police chief Abdul Rozak Muhammad said a motorcycle, suspected to belong to the victim, was found by the bridge’s barrier. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin

Malaysia / 15 h ago

Search ongoing for man who fell off Penang Bridge, CCTV captures early morning incident

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim reiterated today that talks about the allocation for opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) are still ongoing. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Malaysia / 18 h ago

PM Anwar responds to opposition MPs’ allocation criticism, stresses need for discussions

The firebrand Duterte unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the ICC’s founding treaty in 2019 when it started looking into allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings. — AFP pic

World / 17 h ago

Philippines’ Duterte says he will accept arrest if ICC issues warrant

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Greenland’s homeless struggle as modernisation leaves them behind in Arctic cold

Construction cranes are seen behind a couple walking in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 6, 2025. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Trump and which votes on March 11, 2025 in legislative elections, is home to around 500 homeless people, or almost one percent of its population, according to a 2022 tally. — AFP pic

NUUK, (Denmark), March 11 — A flimsy tent rises up behind a snowdrift, home for nearly two years to one of the many homeless left behind by a wave of modernisation in Greenland, living rough in the harsh Arctic cold.To keep warm in a region where the temperature can drop...

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A displaced resident working in an illegal poppy field for their livelihood during the fighting between Myanmar's military and KNDF (Karenni Nationalities Defence Force) in Pekon Township, on the border of Karen State and southern Shan State February 10, 2025. — AFP pic

World / 1 h ago

‘We feel unsafe’: Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape

Protesters attend a demonstration against President Prabowo Subianto’s government, calling for various demands, including reviews of government budget cuts and the free nutritious meal programme for schools in front of a police barricade in Jakarta on February 21, 2025. Anger at the quality of life in South-east Asia’s biggest economy — a nation of 280 million known for pervasive corruption and nepotism — has stirred student protests and driven young and middle-aged professionals to seek jobs abroad. — AFP pic

World / 11 h ago

‘Exhausted and hopeless’: More Indonesians seek escape as anger over quality of life, economy grows

This photograph taken on March 6, 2025 shows the member nation flags including the US (centre) and British flags and the Nato Star sculpture, on display in the Cour d'Honneur of the The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) headquarters, in Brussels. — AFP pic

World / 11 h ago

Report: Europe becomes top buyer of US arms in last five years amid rising tensions with Russia

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A contingent of Masons marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during commemorations of the 60th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on March 9, 2025 in Selma, Alabama. — AFP pic

11 h ago

‘So important’: 60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ Selma honours US civil rights struggle, sacrifices

A man walks past a closed United States Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Abidjan on March 6, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the United States was cancelling 83 per cent of programmes at USAID. — AFP pic

11 h ago

Rubio: US cancels 83pc of USAID programmes after Trump’s foreign aid freeze

Ratu Thalisa was found guilty by a court in Medan city on the western island of Sumatra of spreading hatred under a widely-criticised online hate-speech law in a TikTok livestream, Dapot Dariarma of the local prosecutor’s office told AFP. — Pexels pic

12 h ago

Indonesia court jails transgender woman for Jesus remark, sparking rights outcry

In recent years, Beijing has ramped up its military pressure against the island, including holding several rounds of war games, keeping alive the prospect of the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. — Reuters pic

15 h ago

China vows utmost efforts for ‘peaceful reunification’ with Taiwan

The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output of chatbots by flooding large language models (LLM) with pro-Kremlin falsehoods. ― Reuters pic

15 h ago

Russian disinformation ‘infects’ AI chatbots, researchers warn

Zelenskiy is expected to meet Mohammed bin Salman, whose Saudi Arabia has played various mediating roles since Russia’s 2022 invasion, including brokering prisoner exchanges and hosting talks between Russia and the United States last month. — Reuters file pic

17 h ago

Zelenskiy heads to Saudi Arabia ahead of crunch US talks

The firebrand Duterte unilaterally withdrew the Philippines from the ICC’s founding treaty in 2019 when it started looking into allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings. — AFP pic

17 h ago

Philippines’ Duterte says he will accept arrest if ICC issues warrant

The Trump administration appears to be following Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint that calls NOAA one of the “main drivers of the climate change alarm industry” and proposes breaking it up. — AFP pic

20 h ago

Scientists say Trump cuts threaten climate research, public safety

Floodwaters reach the levee walls holding back the Wilsons River in Lismore on March 9, 2025. — AFP pic

20 h ago

Floods hit eastern Australia, 200,000 properties blacked out

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol reacts to his supporters as he arrives at the presidential residence in Seoul on March 8, 2025. Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from detention on March 8, after a court voided his arrest on procedural grounds -- but he remains under investigation over his declaration of martial law. — Yonhap pic via AFP

20 h ago

South Korea prosecutors to pursue Yoon’s conviction despite jail release

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney won praise for his handling of the financial crisis, when he created new emergency loan facilities and gave unusually explicit guidance on keeping rates at record low levels for a specific period of time. — Reuters pic

21 h ago

Who is Mark Carney? The crisis-fighting central banker who will lead Canada through US trade war

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists aboard Air Force One as he travels from West Palm Beach back to Washington on March 9, 2025. — AFP pic

22 h ago

After starting trade war with world, Trump refuses to rule out US recession

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney makes a

23 h ago

Ex-central banker Carney to take over as Canada PM from Trudeau

Visitors look at a replica of Liaoning aircraft carrier displayed at the PLA Naval Museum, on the 75th founding anniversary of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, in Qingdao, Shandong province April 23, 2024. — Reuters pic

1d ago

High seas rivalry: US and China in a battle for maritime supremacy

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. — Reuters pic

1d ago

‘Went through a hell of a lot with me’: Trump claims strong bond with Russia’s Putin

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