FOR months, the world has watched what was meant to be a decisive US‑Israeli campaign against Iran. But instead of a quick, surgical victory, we are witnessing something far more instructive: the visible, irreversible deflation of American hegemony — delivered not through a single battlefield defeat, but through a slow‑motion implosion spanning military logistics, internal US political warfare, and the rise of a civilizational state that Washington never even understood.

FROM the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Malacca – I am quite sure many of us, including politicians and government advisors, are checking where the Strait of Hormuz is located or finding out the length, width and depth of the world's busiest strait, which runs along Peninsular Malaysia.

The wheels are turning in PKR to remove the man once seen as a future prime minister but who has become a thorn in the flesh for the party.

It was a typical Monday afternoon commute along Jalan Sentul in Kuala Lumpur as I headed out to run an errand.

THE spate of gangland-related crime since the beginning of this year is now a full-blown concern for the public as well as the police.

IN war, truth is the first casualty, observed Aeschylus, the father of tragedy in classical Greek drama. It remains cogent today under the much denser fog of war.

THROUGHOUT my academic career, I could never relate to or find meaning in statements by academic leadership like "We must be No.1", or "We must be the best university" or "We must get into the top 100", or the top 2%, etc.

ANOTHER weekend without Premier League football, as the FA Cup quarter-finals took centre stage. Chelsea and Manchester City booked their spots at Wembley, while Arsenal were dumped out by Southampton after a spirited performance by the home side at St Mary's.​

The march toward a fully digitalised economy has become a defining feature of national competitiveness, and this is evident in the ambitions laid out by China to build a Digital China.

NEWS of the death of the 28th Lim Lian Geok Spirit Award (2015) winner Tan Choo Joo came as a shock to the nation given his momentous contribution towards the development of Chinese language education in this country, in particular the sterling achievements made by Chung Hwa Independent High School in Kelantan, which couldn't have come this far if not for this man.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections globally and a well-established cause of multiple malignancies.

Donald Trump's victory declaration sounds hollow, considering that his costly war has changed little in Iran and it is the Americans who are seeking a face-saving exit.