(NST) - Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has hit out at critics of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for taking the ‘sumpah laknat’ religious oath at Masjid Jamek Kampung Baru…

(Bernama) - Any move to investigate alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories is long overdue, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He said Israel should face justice over the…

(Bernama) - The government will consider the proposal of the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services Malaysia (Cuepacs) which sought to fix the minimum salary of civil…

(AFP) - Pope Francis on Saturday called on church leaders for a “change in mentality”, saying the Christian faith is less heeded ― even ignored ― in the modern world. New methods were needed…

Authorities shut down the internet in parts of northern India on Friday and imposed a curfew in a southern city after two people died in clashes between police and stone-throwing protesters angered…

(NST) - Britain’s new parliament on Friday gave its initial approval to a revised EU divorce deal that sets up a high-stakes clash with Brussels over the sides’ future ties. The 358 to 234 vote…

(FMT) - Former finance minister II Johari Abdul Ghani today laid out three issues that are dragging down investor confidence and adversely affecting the economy. Johari, the former Titiwangsa…

(MMO) - The Indian government has called Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s recent remarks about its newly-passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) “factually inaccurate”. The…

(MMO) - Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan wants the government to review the latest minimum wage hike. He claimed the increase to benefit foreign…

(Bernama) - The Registrar of Societies Malaysia (RoS) has suspended the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) following a probe after it received complaints on the management of the MTUC. RoS…

(Yahoo) - Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has spoken out against India's recently-approved citizenship legislation, which appears discriminatory towards Muslims. "I am sorry to see that…

(FMT) - Lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla today said the DAP’s attacks on police investigations linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) were not doing the country’s image of upholding the…

(MMO) - Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad advised Chinese education group Dong Jiao Zong that there could be repercussions to its Chinese Organisation Congress seeking to convince the…

(Bernama) - The application by Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Baling MP Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim to strike out a suit filed by Carpet Raya Sdn Bhd director…

(FMT) - Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin says he has no issue with the participation of Shia-majority Iran in the ongoing Kuala Lumpur Summit despite his vocal criticism of Iran and Shia…

(Bloomberg) - Southeast Asia is set for another year of low inflation, generating difficult choices for the region’s central banks. S&P Global Ratings sees inflation remaining below central…

(Aljazeera) - A Philippine court has declared members of a powerful political family guilty of mass murder in the country's deadliest incident of political violence. Brothers Datu Andal Unsay…

(FMT) - Bursa Malaysia ended lower today on continued profit-taking in most index-linked counters as investors’ appetite for equities turned unfavourable ahead of the Christmas holidays after a…

(NST) - The Thai army has expressed "regret" after troops shot dead three Muslim men foraging in the jungle this week and promised a probe, a rare admission of wrongdoing by the military in…

(CNN) - China has officially commissioned its first domestically-built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, a significant step forward in Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitions for the country to…

(CNA) - Australian authorities declared a seven-day state of emergency in New South Wales state Thursday (Dec 19) as a record heat wave fanned unprecedented bushfires raging across the region.…

(MMO) - DAP’s Lim Kit Siang mocked former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today over his plan to use a religious oath to deny claims he directly ordered the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu in…

(MMO) - Controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik was present when the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 was formally launched as a new platform for international Muslim discourse today. However, Dr Zakir…

(MMO) - The lawyer of former researcher Muhammed Yusoff Rawther said the full report of his client’s polygraph test is expected to be ready next week at the latest. Berita Harian reported…

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday mounted a veiled attack on a Muslim summit in Malaysia shunned by Saudi Arabia, saying such gatherings would weaken Islam. (MMO) -…

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad told Islamic countries today that the Kuala Lumpur Summit is not to discriminate against or isolate any particular party but to find ideas for solutions to…

A local pressure group has questioned the inclusion of what has been dubbed a “fourth island” in the 2030 Penang Structure Plan (RSN), saying authorities must explain how it was drawn in without…

The sad truth is that nobody in PKR, or anywhere else, contributed to the reformasi movement. It has been reduced to nothing but a catch phrase used by conmen (read politicians) to induce…

(Aljazeera) - From Kashmir to Iran, governments are increasingly turning off the internet as a tactic to stop dissent. Plus, politics, porn and the sordid world of deepfakes. How internet…

Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death in a treason case. It relates to a nationwide emergency he imposed in November 2007. Musharraf is in exile in Dubai in the…