[caption id="attachment_205142" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Picture by LOGAN WEAVER/UNSPLASH[/caption] TEHRAN, Jan 8 — A Ukrainian airliner with 180 passengers and crew on board has reportedly crashed near Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport today. Al Jazeera reported that the Boeing 737 plane...

[caption id="attachment_205503" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by ANIQ DANIAL / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — A maintenance audit team should be set up at public transport stations to ensure that the facilities at these places are well maintained, said Federation of...

[caption id="attachment_205505" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A handout file picture provided by the Iranian presidency on September 22, 2019 shows members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) standing in formation during the annual "Sacred Defence Week" military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran.

[caption id="attachment_205187" align="aligncenter" width="807"] The smoking zone provided by MPAJ in a commercial area in Ampang.

[caption id="attachment_205498" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by LUCA BRAVO / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Rising awareness of the importance of cybersecurity has led to improved focus within Malaysian companies in addressing cyberthreats, according to technology group...

[caption id="attachment_205491" align="aligncenter" width="903"] Screenshot of the sexual awareness video for children produced by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry.

[caption id="attachment_205139" align="aligncenter" width="900"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] PUTRAJAYA, Jan 7 — Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today that he will decide on the appointment of the new education minister because it is his prerogative. "It will be decided by me...

[caption id="attachment_205075" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by MICHAEL LONGMIRE/UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Increased spending in the nation’s health sector and adding value to government and private healthcare services are among the Health Ministry’s biggest...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Bank Rakyat Malaysia Bhd (Bank Rakyat) has identified six blueprints as the key to its new journey in realising "Bank Rakyat 2025" (BR25) aspirations to become a sustainable bank, said its chairman Datuk Noripah Kamso.

[caption id="attachment_205480" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Tourists on their Hop On-Hop Off tour to explore the city centre on January 4.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — The police will conduct a special operation known as Operation Libero Purus to detect civil servants believed to be involved with drugs.

[caption id="attachment_203922" align="alignnone" width="960"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] by Ashwin Kumar KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Political parties and its leaders were called to understand the dynamics of the country and refrain from playing up racial and religious...

[caption id="attachment_205168" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Smoking and vaping has been strictly banned in all eateries across Malaysia from 2020 onwards.

[caption id="attachment_205470" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Luo Huining, the new head of the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, speaks briefly with the media in Hong Kong on January 6, 2020.

[caption id="attachment_205194" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by BILL OXFORD / UNSPLASH[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Two separate High Courts here today set Jan 16 to hear the bail applications of Gadek assemblyman G. Saminathan and DAP member V. Suresh Kumar who are facing charges...

[caption id="attachment_205465" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by UNSPLASH[/caption] JASIN, Jan 6 — The government, via the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (Mestecc), aims to raise its net energy metering (NEM) programme output to 300 megawatts...

[caption id="attachment_204788" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picture by CHEDET OFFICIAL[/caption] KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — Although Vision 2020 did not fully achieve what was planned, Malaysia has made a lot of progress following the launch of the vision in 1991, said Prime Minister Tun Dr...

SEOUL, Jan 6 — Bong Joon-ho's black comedy "Parasite" was named best foreign-language film at the Golden Globe Awards on Monday (Korean time), reported Yonhap news agency.

[caption id="attachment_205453" align="aligncenter" width="600"] File Picture BERNAMA[/caption] PUTRAJAYA, Jan 6 — New year resolutions should be made not just for self-benefit but also for the success of the country says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Dr Mahathir said if all...

[caption id="attachment_205409" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A handout photo taken and received on December 31, 2019 from the State Government of Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in Victoria's East Gippsland region.