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TNB reveals electricity theft by illegal crypto miners in Malaysia jumps threefold between 2018 and last year

Kuala Lampur, May 12 -- Electricity theft linked to illegal cryptocurrency mining in Malaysia has surged by nearly 300 per cent from 2018 to 2024, according to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). The Star ... Read More


Vocalist of punk band Armpunk Sindicate bashed by group in JB for failing to kiss hands of older men (VIDEO)

JOHOR BARU, May 12 -- The police have reportedly launched an investigation against an alleged assault of a punk band vocalist after he did not kiss the hands of a group of men after performing at a sk... Read More


Crowd favourite Hong Kee Handmade Fishball is now at Restoran Puchong Meet You

PUCHONG, May 12 -- This bowl of fish ball noodles has a serious fan club. Many make a pilgrimage of sorts to Puchong just to score a bowl or two from Hong Kee Handmade Fishball, preferably early in t... Read More


Bung Moktar insists Sabah Umno still holds autonomy on state polls despite BN central leadership taking charge of election alliances

KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 -- Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin insisted that Sabah Umno still retains a degree of autonomy despite Barisan Nasional's (BN) central leadership assuming control over alliance decis... Read More


Sarawak senator Abun vies for PKR vice-presidency, says time for Borneo and Dayak voice in national leadership

KUCHING, May 12 -- Senator Abun Sui Anyit has announced that he is contesting for a vice-president (VP) post in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), with the intention of representing 'the voice of Borneo and... Read More


Election win for Thai politician weeks after BMW crash sends 65-year-old man to ICU

BANGKOK, May 12 -- A 28-year-old budding politician in Pathum Thani, a Thai province north of Bangkok, won the local municipal election yesterday, less than a month after being involved in a serious c... Read More


ASEAN must unite against Trump's tariff blackmail against the world (and US itself) - Phar Kim Beng

Kuala Lampur, May 12 -- As Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim assumes the ASEAN chairmanship in 2025, the region stands at a precipice of geopolitical instability and economic weaponisation unsee... Read More


The Rafale shock and the new geometry of peace needed by Asean, Japan and South Korea - Phar Kim Beng

Kuala Lampur, May 12 -- If the Rafale incident represents a symbolic tilt in aerial supremacy from West to East, the aftershocks are now being felt across the wider Indo-Pacific. Nowhere is this more... Read More


Melaka Hospital under probe after baby with 40degC fever reportedly left untreated for 11 hours before seizure

MELAKA, May 12 -- The Melaka State Health Department has been instructed to investigate claims that a 22-month-old baby girl suffering from a high fever was left in pain for 11 hours before experienci... Read More


Sky high: Trump's presidential library is now a 747 - Che Ran

Kuala Lampur, May 12 -- Presidential libraries - the idea sounds noble, right? Halls of wisdom, hushed corridors, the smell of old paper and polished brass. In reality, they're more like retirement pl... Read More