Johnson Wong’s restaurant Gen at Prestige Hotel uses local ingredients like free-range chicken from Balik Pulau, Penang or Sarawak Barrio Salt but cooked using refined modern European techniques he gleaned from his stints abroad.

After the currency hit a 26-year low, is the only way up? The programme Insight finds optimism and doubt in equal measure as it looks at factors behind the ringgit’s fall and the ripple effects.

China, which accounts for 95 per cent of world durian consumption, is known to adopt strict quality control for the fruits imported and will likely halt shipments if supply from Malaysia falls below standards, says an exporter.   

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said all seven people detained over a deadly attack on a Johor police station are Malaysians, refuting earlier reports by Malaysian media that one of them was a 65-year-old Singaporean woman.  

Police are still investigating the motive for the attack, says Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

The video, dated Mar 5, 2016, closely resembles an incident described by Cassie at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.

Ahead of Mr William Lai’s inauguration as Taiwan president on Monday (May 20), China has kept up military pressure while easing some travel and import curbs. Its message to the self-governing island is clear, say experts.

While the attack has raised security fears in Malaysia and even the region, security experts say it is too early to tell if the incident points to a resurgence of a terrorist cell in Johor.

 A recent report found that millennials and Gen Zs make up around 85 per cent of “buy now, pay later” debtors monthly in the country.

Changing weather patterns and worsening saltwater intrusion on the Mekong River are threatening Vietnam’s rise in durian exports.

Data that was recently made public showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received the biggest proportion of donations from electoral bonds, sparking a backlash from opposition parties.