KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 — Local badminton fans can expect to witness fierce battles on the court during the 2023 Malaysia Masters tournament at the Axiata Arena, Bukit Jalil, here from May 23 to May 28, as most of the world’s top 10 shuttlers have confirmed their participation.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh will meet national badminton ace Lee Zii Jia next week to discuss the problems he is facing.

PUTRAJAYA, March 13 — Malaysia is slated to send 677 athletes - 403 men and 274 women - along with 237 officials to the 32nd South East Asian (SEA) Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from May 5 to May 17.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Stuart Ramalingam and Michelle Chai have been appointed as coordinators of the Road to Gold (RTG) project to assist the RTG committee to identify the needs of athletes to the 2024 Paris Olympics.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — A wax figure of national badminton legend Datuk Lee Chong Wei will be exhibited at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong from March 18 onwards.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) will grant exceptions to certain sports to list senior athletes under Category B for the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from May 5 to May 17.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) respects the decision of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) in not sending the national Under-23 (U-23) squad to the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China which is scheduled to take place in September.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 — The Ministry of Youth and Sports (KBS) has assured the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) of full cooperation in their shared mission for the welfare of national athletes and excellence in the country’s sports arena next year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — The Badminton Association of Malaysia will no longer monitor players’ performance, following the separation of the sport’s governing body and the high-performance unit effective immediately.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — Malaysian athletes of mixed parentage from overseas with good performance track records may be considered to represent the national contingent in the hunt for medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — The Malaysian Athletics Federation (MAF) and Malaysia Swimming (MS) have been told to buck up and improve their performances at next year’s Cambodia SEA Games.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — Veteran athletes hoping to compete in next year’s Cambodia SEA Games must surpass the Category A qualifying mark, which is the third-placing mark of the previous Games.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) and Badminton Association of Thailand (BAT) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at propelling both countries to greater heights in badminton for 2022 - 2024.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — The country's top men's doubles pair Aaron Chia - Soh Wooi Yik have both received an incentive totalling RM500,000 for their success in winning the maiden world title for Malaysia, recently.

SEPANG, Aug 29 — Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik will receive cash incentives of over RM200,000 each after being crowned world men’s doubles champions at the 2022 World Badminton Championships in Tokyo, Japan yesterday (August 28).

BIRMINGHAM, Aug 9 — Training programmes for athletes in lawn bowls, diving and athletics need to be revamped after they produced underwhelming performances at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games here.

HANOI, May 12 — Malaysia has been selected to host the 34th SEA Games in 2027 by the SEA Games Federation (SEAGF).

PETALING JAYA, April 24 — The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) is committed to ensuring that the Malaysian Open Badminton Championship 2022 scheduled to be held from June 28 to July 3 will be a grand tournament, said its president Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 — Former world junior champion, Goh Jin Wei has followed in the footsteps of Malaysia’s men’s top singles Lee Zii Jia’s by filing an appeal to the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) following her two-year suspension.

BANGI, Jan 25 — Fresh from his meetings with the protagonists, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu has hinted that a solution to the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM)-Lee Zii Jia issue is now in sight.