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Malaysian cops are looking into claims that an anti-corruption officer waved a gun at some businessman's wife during a raid at their place. The woman filed a complaint saying the MACC team showed up to grab her husband under corruption laws, and one of the officers apparently pulled out a weapon...

Malaysia's deputy prime minister told a bunch of tech and energy folks that the country needs to get its electrical grid sorted out if it wants to hit climate goals while staying competitive. Fadillah Yusof said power companies need to fix bottlenecks fast because renewable energy projects keep...

Malaysia just forced all the big social media apps into its licensing system without asking first. The communications regulator said anything with eight million users or more gets auto-registered as a licensed service provider, which means WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube are all getting...

Terengganu just saw evacuation numbers jump after flooding hit harder, while Sarawak keeps seeing fewer people stuck at relief centers. Kemaman got added to the affected zones with over a hundred folks heading to emergency shelters, and river monitoring stations are showing water levels pushing...

Kuala Lumpur city officials dropped a reminder that those metal posts lining sidewalks actually serve a purpose beyond looking urban and trendy. The bollards keep cars from rolling onto pedestrian zones, and authorities are fed up with motorcycles parking on walkways like they own the place...

Malaysia just announced it is restarting the hunt for the missing airplane MH370 that vanished back in 2014 with over 200 people aboard. The search kicks off at the end of this month after the Boeing 777 became aviation's biggest mystery when it disappeared during a routine flight between Kuala...

Malaysian cops handed out 87 tickets during some motorcycle rally that went down across Melaka state over a three-day stretch. Traffic enforcement caught people riding with expired vehicle registrations, no valid licenses, sketchy aftermarket parts, and missing insurance coverage, among a bunch...

RAB grabbed one of the guys linked to that shooting where independence activist Sharif Osman Hadi got blasted in the head. They picked up Md Kabir from Narayanganj after figuring out he rolled up to the cultural center with the main suspect a few days before everything went down. Kabir...

The US Coast Guard basically gave Chattogram port a perfect score after checking if it follows international security rules. The inspection team spent a couple of days looking over everything and sent back a report with zero problems found, which the port authority says is pretty huge for them...

A Dhaka court handed journalist Anis Alamgir a five-day remand after cops said he posted stuff online about potential attacks on the July Memorial Museum and the chief adviser's house. Prosecutors claimed he was backing the banned student league and working to mess with state security, but his...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus dropped some commemorative postal stuff for Victory Day at the State Guest House Jamuna, with a bunch of government officials standing around for the ceremony. The whole event was basically about rolling out a stamp, envelope, and seal to mark the anniversary of when...

Bangladesh and India are doing their annual thing where they swap military people for Victory Day stuff. Ten folks from India showed up in Dhaka, with eight being war vets and two active duty officers. Meanwhile, Bangladesh sent eight freedom fighters and two serving military officers over to...

Bangladesh cricket captains Najmul Hossain Shanto and Mehidy Hasan Miraz got into some playful trash talk ahead of their charity exhibition match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. The two squads are loaded with national team players, and the whole thing is being run by the Cricketers...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir promised his party would protect the July uprising fighters if they win the election. He said those activists are worried about their safety after the interim government steps down, and BNP wants to make sure they stay secure under any new...

Bangladesh jewelers just jacked up gold prices again, adding another 1,470 taka per bhori to hit 217,067 taka. The Bangladesh Jewellers' Association pricing committee signed off on this after meeting up, and it comes right after they already bumped prices by over 3,000 taka just a couple of days...

South African spinner Simon Harmer grabbed the ICC Men's Player of the Month award after absolutely torching Bangladesh's Taijul Islam and Pakistan's Mohammad Nawaz in the voting. The 36-year-old bowler snagged 17 wickets across a two-match series against India, helping his squad pull off their...

Kim Aris is basically freaking out because he has no idea if his 80-year-old mom Aung San Suu Kyi is even alive anymore. The Myanmar junta has kept her locked up since they took over back in 2021, and he hasn't heard anything from her in years. She's got heart problems and other health issues...

The press secretary for Bangladesh's chief adviser basically shut down any chance of the Awami League getting into the next election. Shafiqul Alam said no democratic country would let a group run by someone he called a terrible criminal do anything political. He pointed out that Sheikh Hasina...

Bangladesh's junior hockey squad pulled off their best showing ever at the World Cup in India and got handed serious cash for their trouble. The team grabbed 17th place out of 24 squads while winning the Challenger Trophy, and defender Amirul Islam went absolutely nuts with 18 goals across six...

Pakistan threw shade at whoever attacked UN peacekeepers in Kadugli, Sudan, after six Bangladeshi soldiers with UNISFA got killed and others were wounded. The government sent condolences to Bangladesh and said they stand with families dealing with the aftermath while calling Blue Helmets...