<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>KUALA LUMPUR (May 5): PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar retained the Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat, defeating Barisan Nasional's Datuk Seri Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin in a nail-biting contest that held the nation's attention. Official results at 11.35pm showed that Nurul Izzah had polled 31,008 votes, to 29,160 votes for Raja Nong Chik, to clinch a majority of 1,848 votes. Independent candidate Rusli Baba received 167 votes, while 519 votes were rejected. Earlier, a tense situation developed outside the counting centre in Bangsar when her supporters formed a human barricade for fear that additional ballot boxes would be brought into the centre. A stand-off between supporters of Nurul Izzah and Raja Nong Chik, with FRU personnel on standby, however, ended peacefully. In defeating Raja Nong Chik, the caretaker minister of Federal Territories and Urban Well-being, Nurul Izzah convincingly proved her political credentials for a second time against powerful opponents. In the 12th general election in 2008, Nurul Izzah had scored a major upset when she unseated Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, who was the incumbent minister of women, family and community development. </div></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage>

KUALA LUMPUR (May 5): PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar retained the Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat, defeating Barisan Nasional's Datuk Seri Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin in a nail-biting contest that held the nation's attention. Official results at 11.35pm showed that Nurul Izzah had polled 31,008 votes, to 29,160 votes for Raja Nong Chik, to clinch a majority of 1,848 votes. Independent candidate Rusli Baba received 167 votes, while 519 votes were rejected. Earlier, a tense situation developed outside the counting centre in Bangsar when her supporters formed a human barricade for fear that additional ballot boxes would be brought into the centre. A stand-off between supporters of Nurul Izzah and Raja Nong Chik, with FRU personnel on standby, however, ended peacefully. In defeating Raja Nong Chik, the caretaker minister of Federal Territories and Urban Well-being, Nurul Izzah convincingly proved her political credentials for a second time against powerful opponents. In the 12th general election in 2008, Nurul Izzah had scored a major upset when she unseated Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, who was the incumbent minister of women, family and community development.

#GE13* Nurul Izzah overcomes Raja Nong Chik's resources

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In a Facebook post, the prime minister extended his condole...

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Train services on the MRT Putrajaya Line are experiencing delays following a power supply disruption caused by a cable theft incident near Taman Equine Station, according to Rapid KL.

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Our cover story features Johor-based BCB Bhd (KL:BCB), who views Johor’s next phase of growth as not about chasing the latest property cycle, but positioning its developments in the state’s evolving economic landscape.

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Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Saturday they had targeted an Aramco facility in the Saudi capital Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones, saying the attack was in retaliation for Saudi attacks on Yemen's Sanaa and other provinces.

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(Oct 4): A former OpenAI safety employee who recently resigned criticized the company's approach to AI safety, arguing that a fast-paced culture focused on rapid development increases the risk of failures.

Writing in "I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken," published by the Atl...

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Our cover story features Johor-based BCB Bhd (KL:BCB), who views Johor’s next phase of growth as not about chasing the latest property cycle, but positioning its developments in the state’s evolving economic landscape.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the recent rise in US Treasury yields was in line with global trends and didn’t warrant consternation, even as worries about persisting price pressures pushed some benchmark rates to their highest in more than two decades.

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Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Saturday they had targeted an Aramco facility in the Saudi capital Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones, saying the attack was in retaliation for Saudi attacks on Yemen's Sanaa and other provinces.

Any urgency among Federal Reserve and European Central Bank policymakers to follow up September interest-rate hikes at this month’s meetings has been dialled back in the wake of soft US jobs data and acute stress in French financial markets.

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Ahmad Zakii Anwar’s Sementara brings together 75 paintings and drawings spanning decades of the painter’s career, from his celebrated Smokers and Sofa series to pieces exploring the human form, ritual, portraiture and animals. Drawn from the Steve Wong Art Collection, the retrospective highlights Zakii’s distinctive mastery of shadow, light, charcoal and chiaroscuro, alongside his fascination with the body and its spiritual dimensions.&nbsp;

Train services on the MRT Putrajaya Line are experiencing delays following a power supply disruption caused by a cable theft incident near Taman Equine Station, according to Rapid KL.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticised prominent artificial-intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.

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A new White House task force will produce a report assessing risks posed by artificial intelligence and what responsibility the US federal government should have over the technology, the Wall Street Journal reported.&nbsp;

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 4): Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has expressed his condolences over the death of secondary student Irene Sofiya Mohd Khairoul Faisal, whose body was found with injuries at a school in Yong Peng, Johor on Saturday.

In a Facebook post, the prime minister extended his condole...

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Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with a mixture of hope and anxiety: hope because of the rise in living standards that the digital revolution has made possible, and anxiety because it has deepened social...

BATU PAHAT (Oct 4): A 16-year-old female student died after she was found unconscious and covered in blood at a school in Yong Peng Saturday.

Police said a 16-year-old male teenager was arrested at about 7pm in the Yong Peng area, about an hour after police were alerted to the incident....