ARMADA has studied the essence of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's announcement on July 23 and finds an inconsistency in the government's policy regarding targeted subsidies and not wanting to benefit the "super-rich".

LONG before fibre optic cables stitched the planet together, the waters of the Malacca Strait were humming with life.

THE Western media's reaction to the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro was nothing short of predictable.

I remember when I was a child taking art classes, our teacher would always ask us to draw the national flag during the National Day month.

IT BEGAN, again, with a tweet. Donald Trump, from his digital podium, declared that Iran and Israel had "come to him" asking for peace, promising a future of "LOVE, PEACE AND PROSPERITY."

Public participation is critical to ensure fair and equitable urban renewal outcomes.

THE question is not whether the United States (US) will enter the Iran–Israel conflict full scale. It already has, even before the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites just hours ago. Satellite intelligence, drone coordination, aerial refuelling — all of it was already in motion, long before the bombs fell, as openly acknowledged by the US Department of Defense itself.

WHEN we talk about sports, we often celebrate the grit, sacrifice, and glory of our athletes.

ST PETERSBURG (XINHUA): The 19th General Assembly of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) kicked off in St Petersburg on Thursday (June 19).

FROM the outside, the latest Iran–Israel escalation looked like a tightly controlled spectacle—one more episode in the long tradition of geopolitical theatre. Symbolic strikes. Calibrated optics. Narratives exchanged more than missiles. But something disrupted the performance. Someone, somewhere inside Iran, broke the script.

DISCUSSING the collapse of Zionism, as is becoming increasingly self-evident, requires revisiting how it began, for its very foundations were always unstable, both morally and politically.

As Malaysia prepares to roll out a sweeping expansion of the Sales and Services Tax (SST) on July 1, 2025, policymakers must confront an uncomfortable question: Are we compromising national food security in pursuit of short-term revenue gains?