Malaysia’s jazz queen Sheila Majid awarded Datuk Seri title
She was among 52 recipients of Pahang state honours and medals during the investiture ceremony.
She was among 52 recipients of Pahang state honours and medals during the investiture ceremony.
BEIJING, Aug 3 - China warned of risks from heavy downpours across multiple parts of the country on Monday, with storms concentrated in the northwestern Shaanxi and southwestern Sichuan provinces where residents have been evacuated from high-risk areas.
The court found “inconsistencies” in witness statements, his lawyer said.
There were 236 people on board the vessel when it left Indonesia’s Surabaya for Makassar.
A total of seven people, including two Habita employees, were killed in the blast.
Officials are scrambling to improve living conditions for those displaced as punishing heat continues across the prefecture.
The two women's employer has apologised for sending them back to Aeon Mall to secure cash.
Yes, China certainly seems daunting. Go there and take a look at massive modern factories operating 24/7, millions of industrial and domestic service robots, along with what look like never-ending shiny skyscrapers in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other cities. The sheer scale of it
The first-ever severe heatwave warning was issued for parts of Seoul on Monday, with South Korea's weather agency warning the heatwave was likely to persist.
Five people were confirmed dead and 238 have been rescued.
Photos newly released by Myanmar's military government show Suu Kyi meeting with an ICRC official.
Complaints include widening economic inequality, high youth unemployment and an erosion of free speech rights.
SITAMARHI, India/NEW DELHI, Aug 3 - Ashok Kumar knows that Narendra Modi changed his life for the better.
The Myanmar government also released photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi, however, the location and date of the images have not been independently verified.
There are lots of reports of Ukrainian attacks on Russian shipping, but not so many about Russian attacks on Ukrainian ships. Over the last few months the Russians have been waging their own campaign to try and destroy shipping in and out of Ukrainian ports, which is vital to
The project is open to any Seoul resident experiencing loneliness, including foreign residents.
Scorching heat is also set to take hold in Xinjiang, where almost all of the country’s cotton is grown.
Foreign tourist spending is spreading beyond traditional destinations, data suggested.
Tributes are pouring out across Nepal after an avalanche killed some of the country's best mountaineers.
KOCHI, India, Aug 3 - Heavy rains and floods battered parts of southern India over the weekend, killing at least 11 and displacing thousands in the state of Kerala, and setting off a landslide that killed at least three in neighbouring Karnataka, authorities and news reports
She met with Arnaud de Baecque, resident representative of the ICRC to Myanmar, in Naypyitaw, a spokeswoman said.
She met with Arnaud de Baecque, resident representative of the ICRC to Myanmar, in Naypyitaw, a spokeswoman said.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan coalition losing in the latest state polls is not an isolated incident. It is the third and most devastating strike in a series that has transformed the political map of Malaysia, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez.
Crocodile attacks have caused 22 deaths between 2023 and 2025, and five fatalities so far in 2026.
SARAWAK, Malaysia, August 3 - Villagers in one indigenous community in Malaysia's Sarawak state once lived by an unspoken rule: leave the crocodile be, and it will leave you alone in turn.
Hundreds pledged abstinence from alcohol in a campaign blending public health with spirituality.
The virus has killed hundreds of millions of birds and mammals in recent years.
The authorities are still investigating how widely the stones spread through the market.
SYDNEY, Aug 3 - Two people were hospitalised after a building collapsed in a central area of Sydney on Monday, emergency services said.
A 350-acre white expanse of marble waste in Kishangarh, western India, has become an unlikely tourist destination.
The United States is Taiwan’s most important international backer and arms supplier.
SYDNEY, Aug 3 - Former Australian radio host Alan Jones arrived at a Sydney court on Monday as his high-profile trial opened on charges that he indecently assaulted and sexually touched six men.
Both countries have said that they will not hesitate to conduct joint interventions in the future.
South Korea’s youth unemployment rate stood at 7 per cent in June.
A senior Israeli official, likely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently briefed the Israeli press delegation that traveled to Washington with him for his White House visit regarding plans for Israel to build a domestic stealth fighter plane and an accompanying
The high-profile case has shocked Malaysia and sparked debate about the effect of social media on children.
When we were asked to investigate Russia’s indoctrination and militarization of children living in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow since 2014, we had a general idea of the Kremlin’s occupation policies. Two of us grew up in what was then Soviet-occupied Latvia and
Two families reveal the human toll of India's medical entrance examination paper leak.
Greenland's labour shortages have created an unlikely migration corridor from Southeast Asia. In part two of this series, CNA looks at how Filipinos and Thais have become the island's largest communities.
China views Taiwan as its territory and has never ruled out the use of force to “reunify” with it.
With more Singaporeans expected to spend in JB after the RTS opens, old neighbourhoods become the city's new hot spots
The UK band says they are "surprised and disappointed" by their treatment over shouting "free Palestine" at a concert there.
PESHAWAR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Aug 3 - At least 17 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, a rescue group and a regional police official said, as the country battles widening insurgencies.
The blast took place at a busy intersection near a police station in Swat during a civil society protest.
The blast took place at a busy intersection near a police station in Swat during a civil society protest.
She was sleeping when the animal dragged her away and injured her critically, leading to her death