Detractors jeer Syerleena for exposing her online perpetrators, brand her as traitor to Malay, Islam

Detractors jeer Syerleena for exposing her online perpetrators, brand her as traitor to Malay, Islam





DAP lawmaker Syerleena Abdul Rashid who has come out to strongly condemn the spread of defamatory videos on the TikTok platform which she described as a planned personal attack against her has apparently not earn any sympathy from the Malay Muslim community.


Instead, a cross-section of them even intensified their offensive against the Bukit Bendera MP with derogatory remarks such as excelling as a (DAP) lapdog, traitor to the Malays/Islam and willingly support infidels for the sake of power, among others.


Such distasteful reaction can be gauged from two Facebook posts which reported Syerleena exposing three TikTok accounts – @nowadd_, @cikguirisdelea and @sayapkiri916 – which she claimed had posted content full of false accusations, distortion of facts and hateful narratives targeting her as a woman, a Muslim and a political leader.

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Ahli Parlimen Bukit Bendera, Syerleena Abdul Rashid tampil mengecam keras penyebaran video fitnah di platform TikTok yang disifatkan sebagai serangan peribadi terancang terhadap dirinya.

Beliau mendakwa tiga akaun TikTok iaitu @nowadd_, @cikguirisdelea dan @sayapkiri916 telah menyiarkan kandungan yang penuh dengan tuduhan palsu, penyelewengan fakta serta naratif kebencian yang menyasarkan dirinya sebagai seorang wanita, Muslim dan pemimpin politik.

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Ahli Parlimen Bukit Bendera, Syerleena Abdul Rashid tampil mengecam keras penyebaran video fitnah di platform TikTok yang disifatkan sebagai serangan peribadi terancang terhadap dirinya.

Beliau mendakwa tiga akaun TikTok iaitu @nowadd_, @cikguirisdelea dan @sayapkiri916 telah menyiarkan kandungan yang penuh dengan tuduhan palsu, penyelewengan fakta serta naratif kebencian yang menyasarkan dirinya sebagai seorang wanita, Muslim dan pemimpin politik.

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While she is open to democratic criticism, the 45-year-old who was previously the DAP state assemblywoman for Seri Delima claimed that the three posts constituted character assassination and exploited religious and gender-related sentiments.

“It is a systematic attempt to silence me and destroy my credibility as a Malay-Muslim woman and elected representative,” she told a media conference in the Parliament.

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Berikut adalah Kenyataan Media Yang Berhormat Syerleena Abdul Rashid, Ahli Parlimen Bukit Bendera mengenai video-video TikTok yang tular yang berunsur fitnah dan hasutan kebencian.

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“One of the videos said I invited Muslims to dine in a (non-halal) Chinese kopitiam, but I never did that. Nevertheless, I will continue my duty as an MP and will not allow this to distract me from speaking out for my constituents and Malaysians.”

Following this, she has recently lodged two police reports against the TikTok account holders for defaming her by calling her a threat to the country and Islam.

In a ll fairness, her electorate have credited Syerleena for showcasing exemplary tributes in accepting diversity by visiting non-Muslim places of worship, attending non-Muslim religious-centric events in her constituency or even dining with non-Muslims (in halal establishments).

Detractors unfazed

But such gesture is viewed with prejudice from the narrow-minded faction of her own community.

This led to her political enemies reminding Syerleena that she could eventually win millions in legal suit against her online perpetrators but “she still loses in the eyes of the rakyat who evaluate her”.

Or if she was unable to accept criticism “as how she has incited to bring down others, then it’s better for her just to become a garbage collector”.



Some apparently Al-Arqam sympathisers were still sour with the Madani backbencher for having proposed in the Dewan Rakyat in October 2024 that the government immediately seized the business assets of Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH).



All in all, this is not the first time that Syerleena has been subject to online abuses.

On Aug 17 last year, the former pupil of Penang’s Convent Green Lane lodged a police report against individuals who have slandered her on social media by accusing her of supposedly “fighting to change Malaysia’s official religion” and “planning to attack Islamic institutions, especially JAKIM”.

“These claims are clearly extreme slanders spread by irresponsible parties with the intent to create a negative perception of me, my party and the Madani government among the public, especially the Malay community,” she had justified. – Nov 24, 2025

A corruption scandal may well end the war in Ukraine

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A corruption scandal may well end the war in Ukraine

A weakened Ukrainian president can now easily be turned into a scapegoat for defeat

By Leonid Ragozin

Leonid Ragozin is a freelance journalist based in Riga.
Published On 23 Nov 2025

A security member is reflected in the window of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's car after a visit to Spain's Parliament in Madrid on November 18, 2025 [Susana Vera/Reuters]


On November 10, the Ukrainian anticorruption authorities revealed that close associates of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were allegedly involved in a scheme to embezzle $100m from Ukraine’s energy sector.

Zelenskyy’s business partner Tymur Mindich as well as two government ministers have been named so far in the investigation, led by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), an agency backed by Western governments. Ukrainian and Western media have suggested that the president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, may also be implicated.

The way the investigation is revealing facts and identifying suspects – slowly, theatrically, strategically – smacks of a political campaign aimed at achieving specific political outcomes under the cover of an anticorruption drive.

The scandal has delivered a devastating blow to Zelenskyy’s international reputation and to the Ukrainian cause at large. The Ukrainian president is emerging out of it as a lame duck who will do what he is told by whoever is pulling the strings, which may be the administration of United States President Donald Trump.

One area in which there is already dramatic change is Ukrainian policy on talks with Russia. On November 11, British newspaper The Times ran a story on Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya, the man tasked with leading the negotiations, in which he made clear that engagement with Moscow was suspended because it was yielding no result. Just a week later, Zelenskyy announced he wanted to reactivate talks with Russia.

Then immediately, talk began of an emerging American peace plan that envisages Ukraine succumbing to all the key Russian demands for ending the war, if we are to believe media leaks. Despite a couple of defiant statements by Ukrainian officials, Zelenskyy didn’t reject it outright and promised to cooperate with the US. The corruption scandal has drastically limited his room for defiance.

What makes the prospect of peace more realistic today is that there is now a clear scapegoat for what essentially is Ukraine’s looming defeat – the Ukrainian president himself.

Indeed, the talks spearheaded by Trump earlier this year did not progress primarily because nobody wanted to take responsibility for an outcome that contrasts drastically with the expectations the cheerleaders of this war had built. While a military defeat today may mean salvation for Kyiv, it would be a deadly blow for war-mongering politicians and lobbyists who promoted the idea that Russia, a major nuclear power, could be coerced into accepting Western primacy by force.

That illusion underpinned the entire Western policy with regards to Russia throughout the conflict. It is the main reason why Kyiv resisted accepting an outcome of the war that the West was unable to change.

It has long been clear that Ukraine’s Western allies have hit a wall when it comes to military supplies and funding for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. Nineteen packages of harsh sanctions against Moscow have failed to stop its army, which has grown only stronger and far more technologically advanced than it was at the start of the conflict.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has been struggling with draft dodging and territorial and human losses. It could reportedly run out of Western funding by April. Worse still, close European allies – like Poland and Germany – have indicated they are not ready to keep funding the large numbers of Ukrainian refugees they are hosting.

The appetite for more war with Russia is largely exhausted in Europe, but of course, no one wants to be blamed for reaching a much worse settlement than could have been achieved had this all-out war been avoided altogether.

Being blamed for a Ukraine defeat is not a huge risk for Trump, who has long dismissed this conflict as “Biden’s war”, accusing his predecessor President Joe Biden of starting it.

It is much harder for European leaders and Zelenskyy himself to accept it, given how invested they have been in the promise that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield.

To understand their predicament today, one needs to recall December 2019 when Zelenskyy met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris, and the two sides agreed on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, which ended hostilities and froze the front line over the next 12 months.

The war could have ended then on terms Kyiv could only dream of today. In particular, Ukraine would have retained its formal sovereignty over the Donbas region, only a part of which would have become a Russian-influenced autonomy. Ukraine would have lost the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia occupied and annexed in 2014.

But with the arrival of Biden to the White House in January 2021, Zelenskyy made a U-turn on the peace process, embarking on a strategy of pressing Russia on all fronts to coerce it into agreeing to better conditions for Kyiv.

He clamped down on Putin’s main political ally in Ukraine and launched a loud campaign for Ukraine’s accession to NATO while his Western allies tried to pressure Germany into stopping work on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a major Russian export energy project. London also challenged Moscow by sending a battleship into the waters off Crimea, which Russia considers its territory. More than a year of dangerous brinkmanship ended with Putin unleashing an all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

This year, Ukraine finally ditched its rightful but entirely unrealistic demands for a full Russian withdrawal and reparations in favour of a comprehensive ceasefire along the current front lines. It did so after having lost swaths of territory, a lot of infrastructure, 14,500 civilians and up to 100,000 military personnel.

A peace agreement on Russia’s terms would be extremely unfair to Ukraine and would indeed be against international law. But the only alternative to it is the country being sucked even deeper into the black hole of devastation and collapsing nationhood.

The reaction to the draft of the peace plan was the expected mix of virtue signalling, performative defiance and jingoism. It reflects the complete absence of a realistic plan that could improve Ukraine’s negotiating position. Conveniently though, the corruption within Zelenskyy’s entourage gives pro-Ukrainian cheerleaders in the West a way out that absolves them from responsibility for the deadly mess they helped create.

Selangor MB clarifies proposal for Nurul Izzah as alternative candidate

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Selangor MB clarifies proposal for Nurul Izzah as alternative candidate


Amirudin stresses Sultan’s approval and current focus on state election victory

Updated 56 minutes ago

Published on 24 Nov 2025 4:05PM

Amirudin emphasised that the proposal is not definitive and that all current members of the Selangor State Executive Council (Exco) remain eligible for consideration - November 24, 2025



SELANGOR Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari has clarified that his suggestion to consider PKR Deputy President Nurul Izzah Anwar as a potential candidate for the post of Menteri Besar is merely an alternative proposal, contingent upon the consent of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah.


Speaking at a press conference following the launch of the Selangor Creative Economy Action Plan 2025–2035 on Monday, Amirudin emphasised that the proposal is not definitive and that all current members of the Selangor State Executive Council (Exco) remain eligible for consideration.

“This is only my suggestion. If it is accepted, Alhamdulillah. If not, we will look for another alternative. No problem,” he said.

“Currently, all our Exco members are eligible, including (Mohd) Najwan (Halimi), (Dr. Mohamad) Fahmi (Ngah), (Datuk) Borhan (Aman Shah), and (Datuk Ir.) Izham Hashim.”

Amirudin also addressed the controversy that arose from media coverage, noting that the proposal pertains to the next term, but headlines had caused premature speculation.

“Actually, this suggestion is for the next term, but many people just saw the headline and jumped to conclusions. I don’t understand it either,” he added.

He stressed that any planning regarding changes to key positions must be carefully considered and not made in haste.

At present, the state government’s priority remains securing victory in the upcoming Selangor State Election, which he described as the essential prerequisite before discussions on the next term’s administration can proceed.

“I am one of those nearing the end of two terms and I respect that principle even though it is unwritten. There may be new challenges or opportunities at other levels, but that is for each person to consider.

“The future requires planning if changes are to be made. However, the condition is to first win the election,” he said.

Earlier, in the podcast “Keluar Sekejap” hosted by Khairy Jamaluddin and Shahril Sufian Hamdan, Amirudin had revealed that the proposal was previously discussed with Nurul Izzah, leaving it to her discretion to accept or decline.

The conversation arose when Khairy asked whether Nurul Izzah might contest a Selangor State Assembly seat in the next election and potentially be elevated to Menteri Besar. - November 24, 2025

Landslide hits Taman United, 104 units evacuated as cars buried in Kuala Lumpur

Landslide hits Taman United, 104 units evacuated as cars buried in Kuala Lumpur



A car rests on its side following a landslide in Taman United on Nov 24, 2025. — Teresa Kok pic

Monday, 24 Nov 2025 2:21 PM MYT


KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 — A 60-metre landslide struck Jalan Sepadu 7 in Taman United here around 10am today, burying vehicles and triggering the evacuation of 104 residential units.

The collapse occurred behind Block B of the low-cost Taman United flats, crushing one car completely while toppling another and damaging several motorbikes, according to Seputeh MP Teresa Kok.

Kok's service centre then reported the incident to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) after receiving alerts from local residents.

“My team arrived at the scene by 10.40am to assess the situation, while firefighters and DBKL officers worked to secure the area,” Kok said on her social media.


Separately, the Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department said it received the emergency call at 11.02am and dispatched 11 personnel with a Fire Rescue Tender and a utility vehicle from the Seputeh station.

Deputy Fire Superintendent II Armdan Mahat confirmed that the landslide had extended into the nearby low-cost apartment complex.

According to Kok, Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Fadlun visited the site shortly after the incident to monitor the response efforts.


Citing safety concerns, DBKL ordered the evacuation of residents from Block B and Block C of the Taman United flats.

The evacuees have been relocated to the Sri Petaling Community Centre, which has been designated as a temporary shelter.

“I urge all affected residents to cooperate fully with the security teams and move to the shelter immediately,” Kok said.

No casualties have been reported in the incident, though authorities are continuing to monitor the site amid heavy rainfall and unstable ground conditions.

Malaysia urges citizens to delay trips to Vietnam, Thailand due to deadly floods

Malaysia urges citizens to delay trips to Vietnam, Thailand due to deadly floods



Tourists wade through a flooded area in Hat Yai district, Songkhla, Thailand, on November 23, 2025. — Reuters pic

Monday, 24 Nov 2025 3:05 PM MYT


KOTA BELUD, Nov 24 — Malaysians are advised to postpone travel to Vietnam and Thailand due to unstable weather causing severe flooding that has affected several areas in both countries, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.

He said the situation in Vietnam is at a worrying level, particularly in inland and highland areas severely affected by heavy rain and floods with strong currents, resulting in numerous casualties.

“I receive hourly reports from our Consulate in Ho Chi Minh and also our embassy in Hanoi with updates on the current situation. Just earlier, at 11 am, I received a report from our Consul General based in Ho Chi Minh City.

“The flooding is indeed severe, especially in inland and central areas, in the highlands such as Dak Lak, Lai Dong and Gia Lai,” he told Bernama while campaigning in the 17th Sabah State Election here today.


Mohamad said he will contact his counterpart, Le Hoai Trung, this afternoon to coordinate any needs, and will liaise with the Asean Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) in Jakarta if Vietnam requires immediate support.

He also confirmed that no Malaysians have been affected by the floods in Vietnam as of the 11 am report.

Mohamad also advised Malaysians to postpone travel to Thailand, particularly Hatyai, which has again been flooded following continuous rain.


“I urge those who plan to travel, and have already made arrangements to enter Thailand, to cancel their plans, because we cannot predict the current unstable weather,” he said.

He added that more than 13,000 Malaysians have exited through the Bukit Kayu Hitam and Padang Besar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complexes in the past three days.

”The evacuated Malaysians are taken to Senanarong 5th Infantry Camp outside Hatyai, towards Songkhla or 12 other different temporary shelters set up by municipalities in Hatyai,” he added. — Bernama

Venezuela: A not-so-covert CIA disaster in the making

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Venezuela: A not-so-covert CIA disaster in the making

Venezuela doesn’t even produce fentanyl, but Washington is still going forward with regime change efforts in Caracas as part of its ‘war on drugs’

By Belén Fernández

Al Jazeera columnist.
Published On 23 Nov 2025

US military aircraft fly over the US navy’s Gerald R Ford Carrier Strike Group, which has been deployed in the Caribbean Sea [Handout/US navy via Reuters]


On Saturday, the Reuters news agency published an exclusive report claiming that the United States is “poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days”. The report cited four US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the officials said covert operations would likely be the first step in this “new action” against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

This was less than shocking news given that more than a month ago, US President Donald Trump himself announced that he had authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela – a rather unique approach since one does not normally broadcast actions that are supposed to be, um, secret.

Anyway, it’s no secret that the US has been overseeing a massive military build-up in the region with about 15,000 US troops currently stationed there under the guise of fighting “narcoterrorism”. Since early September, Trump has also presided over wanton extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea, repeatedly ordering the bombing of what he claims are drug-trafficking boats.

In addition to violating both international and US law, the strikes have produced little to show for themselves beyond terrorising local fishermen.

To be sure, the US has never met a “war on drugs” it didn’t love, given the convenient opportunities the whole drug-war narrative offers for wreaking havoc worldwide, militarising the Western Hemisphere, criminalising poor Americans and all sorts of other good stuff.

Never mind that US financial institutions have for decades reaped profits from the international drug trade – or that “The CIA Drug Connection Is as Old as the Agency,” as an article on The New York Times website puts it.

It should come as no surprise by now that the president who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran has now found another conflict in which to embroil the country. And as is par for the course in US imperial belligerence, the rationale for aggression against Venezuela doesn’t hold water.

For example, the Trump administration has strived to pin the blame for the fentanyl crisis in the US on Maduro. But there’s a slight problem – which is that Venezuela doesn’t even produce the synthetic opioid in question.

As NBC News and other hardly radical outlets have pointed out, Venezuelan drug cartels are focused on exporting cocaine to Europe, not fentanyl to the US.

Nevertheless, on November 13, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – pardon, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as per administrative rebranding – took to X to assure his audience that the massive US military build-up off the Venezuelan coast is a mission that “defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people”.

This is the same administration, of course, that was just threatening to starve impoverished Americans by withholding essential food assistance, which suggests that the wellbeing of “our people” isn’t really of utmost concern.

Consider also the fact that Trump slashed federal funding for gun violence prevention programmes in a country where mass shootings have become a way of life. Obviously, massacres in elementary schools are “killing our people” in a way that has nothing whatsoever to do with Venezuela.

But it’s so much more fun to blame Maduro for everything, right?

Poverty itself is a major killer in America – as is the domestic pharmaceutical industry (speaking of opioids). However, none of these full-blown crises has merited a remotely gung-ho response from the valiant defenders of the Homeland.

Like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, Maduro has long been a thorn in the side of US empire – hence the current campaign to discredit him as a “narcoterrorist” and thereby set the stage for regime change. He also happens to be a pet target of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is seen as the main architect of Washington’s war plans in Venezuela. Potentially eyeing a presidential bid in three years, Rubio is seeking to curry favour with his Florida constituency, which includes fanatically right-wing members of the Venezuelan and Cuban diasporas.

According to the Reuters report on impending “Venezuela-related operations”, two of the US officials consulted told the news agency that “the options under consideration included attempting to overthrow Maduro”. If the plans succeeds, Rubio would join the lengthy roster of US politicians who have propagated deadly havoc abroad in the interest of political gains at home.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the White House had “proposed an idea for US military planes to drop leaflets over Caracas in a psychological operation” to pressure Maduro.

Sounds like a page – or a leaflet – out of the old Israeli military playbook.

And as the Trump administration barrels on with its not-so-covert plans for Venezuela, such hemispheric recklessness will secure neither the US homeland nor anyone else’s.



The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

Belén Fernández
Al Jazeera columnist

Belén Fernández is the author of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers UP, 2025), Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center (OR Books, 2022), Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine in a Small Place (OR Books, 2021), Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World (OR Books, 2019), Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon (Warscapes, 2016), and The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work (Verso, 2011). She has written for The New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, The Baffler, Current Affairs, and Middle East Eye, among numerous other publications.

Short hemlines, sexy dress not an insult to Islam; rightist Muslims told to get a sense of perspective

Short hemlines, sexy dress not an insult to Islam; rightist Muslims told to get a sense of perspective





CONTRASTING moral values. Therein lie the crux of the matter.

This was the point made by influencer with penchant for fashion شكينة (@_nsyakinah) who equated disrespecting Islam with inflammatory actions such as burning the holy book, vandalising mosques and spreading Islamophobia.

The donning of short skirts or sexy outfits do NOT fall into this category.

The poster was reacting to criticism from conservative Muslims outraged over girl band Dolla’s latest music video.




To re-cap, the clip for the trio’s single Question has caused all sorts of consternation as too much skin and flesh were purportedly on show, especially as one member – Wan Sabrina Wan Rusli a.k.a. Sabronzo – is, gasp, a Muslim.

“How dare she?” has been the reaction of many a walaun (slang for hardcore PAS supporters).

The poster went on to passionately argue that this issue of covering up one’s aurat (body parts which must not be exposed according to Islam) was “a personal journey”.

It was not meant for others to cast aspersions upon, let alone for the authorities to criminalise or punish people for their wardrobe choices.

She also felt that the Madani government was using this issue as an excuse to implement restrictive and authoritarian measures that further impugn civil liberties.



Needless to say, the post elicited a heated debate. It was highlighted by one commenter that the criticism was only aimed at the Muslim member of Dolla, and not Sabronzo’s non-Muslim band colleagues. It was argued that there are other ways to express oneself artistically.



The same commenter further contended that a Muslim has an obligation to politely reprimand a fellow Muslim if he or she has erred from the righteous path (as opposed to being a busybody).



However, as rightly pointed out by the poster, too often guidance or advice comes in the form of insults, noting that polite advice was a rarity. She also argued that threatening the Muslim Dolla member with criminal offences was totally unacceptable.



Somehow echoing the poster, one commenter urged the holier-than-thou types to get a sense of perspective as there were loads of pertinent issues which can be classified as insulting to Islam.



This point had previously been raised by high profile legal experts who argue that the religious authorities have no business interfering in this most personal of spheres.

Human rights activist and lawyer Siti Kasim had quite simply said that “if dressing as such is a sin, then it is for the sinner to bear the burden”. Former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner and lawyer Latheefa Koya also claimed that it was not a minister’s job to prosecute citizens for their dress sense.

What these legal eagles and the poster seem to be dead set against is more interference by the authorities. They are also fighting against a mob mentality where people are pressured to conform to certain Islamic values.

It is these episodes that is causing alarm among non-Muslim Malaysians that a modern, multi-plural society is fast slipping into hardline, Taliban-style rule. – Nov 24, 2025

Shah Alam floods: MBSA closes roads, Rapid KL suspends three bus routes after heavy rain

Shah Alam floods: MBSA closes roads, Rapid KL suspends three bus routes after heavy rain



The Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) announced that Jalan Batu Tiga Lama is closed while Jalan Kampung Kubu Gajah 5 is now inaccessible due to high water levels. — Picture via X/MBSA

Monday, 24 Nov 2025 12:29 PM MYT


SHAH ALAM, Nov 24 – Continuous heavy rain since last night has triggered flash floods across several areas in Shah Alam, prompting the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) to declare immediate road closures and disrupting public transport services.

In an update via social media, MBSA announced that Jalan Batu Tiga Lama heading towards Taman Mesra (Section U1) and Shah Alam town centre is currently closed.

Additionally, Jalan Kampung Kubu Gajah 5 is now impassable due to high water levels.

Several locations are experiencing rising waters, including:

Section 13: Giant Hypermarket area
Section 16: Jalan Mat Raji, Padang Jawa
Section 19: Persiaran Jubli Perak
Section 23: Persiaran Perusahaan
Section 25: Jalan Mantap 25/126, Jalan Sentosa 25/129, Persiaran Budiman, and Taman Sri Lembayung
Section 35: Taman Desa Kemuning
Section U1: Kampung Budiman
Section U2: Jalan Opera
Section U17: Kampung Kubu Gajah

Public transport disruptions

The floods have also impacted commuters. Rapid KL has announced service disruptions for several bus routes due to road closures mandated by the authorities. Specifically, this affects Route 751, T756, and SA06

According to MyRapid, the following bus stops are currently unserviceable:

Section 23 (North)
Section 23
Taman Sri Muda (Section 25)
Taman Sri Muda Hub
Opposite Masjid Taman Sri Muda
Apartment Andorra
Commercial Centre Section 25
SMK Taman Sri Muda (East)

MBSA said it has mobilised its emergency response squad, the PANTAS team, to multiple locations to monitor the situation and assist residents.


In Jalan Sentosa 25/129, the team was seen helping residents relocate their vehicles to higher ground.

Earlier this morning, the council reported that while water levels were rising in flood-prone areas such as Sungai Damansara in Section 13, flood pumps in these locations are functioning optimally.

“The public is advised to remain vigilant, use alternative routes, and comply with instructions from the authorities should they be asked to evacuate to temporary relief centres,” MBSA stated.

For emergencies or immediate flood assistance in Shah Alam, the public can contact the PANTAS Team at 03-5510 5811.

Separately, a video circulating on X showed that the flood warning siren at Sungai Batu, near the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur (formerly PWTC), has been activated, signaling rising river levels in the capital city as well.

House arrest or stay in Kajang? Najib’s big bid lands in the High Court today

House arrest or stay in Kajang? Najib’s big bid lands in the High Court today



Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as pictured at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex on June 20, 2025. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

Monday, 24 Nov 2025 7:00 AM MYT


KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has been trying for more than a year now to be allowed to serve the rest of his jail term at home instead of in prison, as he insists there is already a royal order for this to happen.

Today, the High Court is scheduled to hear that bid.

Najib has been a prisoner since August 23, 2022 over SRC International Sdn Bhd’s misappropriated RM42 million.

This means he is now midway in his reduced jail term, as it has been three years and three months since then.


What is the bid being heard today?

In a January 29 Federal Territories Pardons Board meeting last year, the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong as its chairman decided to reduce Najib’s jail term from 12 years to six years.

A few weeks later, Najib claimed that he had on February 12, 2024 learnt that the then Agong had issued an add-on order (an “addendum” in legal speak) for him to be placed under house arrest for the rest of his jail term, instead of at Kajang Prison.


After failing to get official confirmation of this alleged additional order, Najib on April 1, 2024 filed a court challenge to compel the government to confirm this “house arrest” order exists and to enforce it by moving him to his Kuala Lumpur home.

Najib named seven respondents in his court challenge: the home minister, commissioner-general of prisons, the Federal Territories Pardons Board, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the director-general of the Legal Affairs Division in the Prime Minister’s Department and the Malaysian government.

Today’s High Court hearing will likely determine if Najib can actually be on house arrest or not.

So does the “addendum” or add-on order for house arrest exist?

The Federal Court said yes.

On August 13, the Federal Court’s three-judge panel unanimously decided that the High Court should go ahead to hear Najib’s court challenge.

The Federal Court also noted that the attorney general had conceded to the panel that the “addendum” order for house arrest exists.

The reason why the case had gone up to the Federal Court is because Najib’s court challenge was filed as a judicial review, and he needs to get the court’s leave or nod before the case is heard.

The High Court had rejected Najib’s application for leave, while the Court of Appeal in a 2-1 decision and the Federal Court ultimately decided that leave should be granted and Najib’s case can go on before a new High Court judge.


Can the house arrest order be enforced?

This will likely be the most important question for the High Court hearing today: whether the additional order for house arrest has any legal effect.

The Federal Court had already made it clear that it did not decide whether the house arrest order is part of the January 29, 2024 pardons order on Najib.

In other words, just because the “addendum” or additional order exists, it does mean it is automatically valid.

The Federal Court said the High Court should be the one deciding if this house arrest order is valid or not.

The Federal Court also pointed out that the Agong’s exercise of his power to grant pardons must be done according to the Federal Constitution’s Article 42 – which includes requirements for the Agong to act on the Pardons Board’s advice and for the ruler to chair the Pardons Board meeting.

Another key question that is expected to be raised at today’s High Court hearing is whether or not the then Agong’s “addendum” order for house arrest was made during or after the Pardons Board’s January 29 meeting.

This could affect whether the house arrest order is valid or not.

How soon will Najib know if he can go on house arrest?

While the High Court will be hearing Najib’s bid for house arrest today, it may not necessarily decide today on whether he succeeds.

Typically, the High Court can deliver its decision on another day, after hearing arguments from lawyers from both sides.

Decisions at the High Court can also be further appealed to the Court of Appeal and to the Federal Court.

Najib’s other criminal trial (The 1MDB case)

Currently, Najib is facing four power abuse charges and 21 money laundering charges in relation to over RM2 billion of money belonging to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), with the penalty for those offences also including jail terms.

Next month, on December 26, the High Court will deliver its decision on whether Najib is guilty or not of the 25 charges in the 1MDB case.





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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,369

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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,369

Here are the key events from day 1,369 of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Medical workers carry a body at the site of a building hit during Russian drone strikes, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday [Vitalii Hnidyi/Reuters]

By Lyndal Rowlands and News Agencies
Published On 24 Nov 2025


Here’s where things stand on Monday, November 24.

Trump’s plan

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Geneva that “a tremendous amount of progress” was made during talks in the Swiss city on Sunday and that he was “very optimistic” that an agreement could be reached in “a very reasonable period of time, very soon”.

Rubio also said that specific areas still being worked on from a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, championed by US President Donald Trump, included the role of NATO and security guarantees for Ukraine.

Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s delegation, echoed Rubio’s sentiments, telling reporters that they made “very good progress” and were “moving forward to the just and lasting peace Ukrainian people deserve”.

Trump had earlier posted on Truth Social saying that Ukraine was not grateful for US efforts. “UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS, AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA,” Trump wrote.

The US president’s post prompted a quick reply from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who wrote on X that his country was “grateful to the United States … and personally to President Trump” for the assistance that has been “saving Ukrainian lives”.

Zelenskyy later said in his nightly video address that Trump’s team in Geneva was “hearing us [Ukraine]” and that talks were expected to continue into the night with “further reports” to come.

US media outlet CBS reported that Zelenskyy could visit the US this week for direct talks with Trump, but that it would depend on the outcome in Geneva.

French President Emanuel Macron said the European Union (EU) should continue to provide financial support for Ukraine and that he remains confident in Zelenskyy’s ability to improve his country’s track record against corruption, adding that Kyiv’s path to EU membership would require rule of law reforms.

Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused EU leaders of deliberately prolonging the war, which he claimed Ukraine has “no chance” of winning. He also described ongoing EU support for Kyiv in the conflict as “just crazy”.



Ukraine won’t trade land for peace without security guarantees: Ukrainian MP



Fighting

A “massive” Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv killed four people and wounded 12 others on Sunday, according to local officials. The wounded included two children aged 11 and 12.

The acting head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Vladyslav Haivanenko, said that the region experienced a “difficult day”, with repeated Russian drone and shelling attacks that killed a 42-year-old woman and a 39-year-old man, and wounded at least five people.

A Russian shelling attack killed a 40-year-old man working in a field in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, the State Emergency Service wrote in a post on Telegram.

The governor of Russia’s Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said that a Ukrainian drone attack on the Shatura Power Station, a heat and power station ​120km (75 miles) east of the Kremlin, ignited a fire. 

The attack cut off heating to thousands of people, before it was later restored, Vorobyov said.

Russia’s Federal Air Navigation Service also said temporary restrictions were in place at Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport after three Ukrainian drones headed for the capital were shot down.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says an explosion on a Polish railway line that is a key route for aid deliveries to Ukraine, including weapons transfers, was an “unprecedented act of sabotage”, pledging to find those responsible.

Oil prices fell as loading resumed at the key Russian export hub of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea after being suspended for two days following a Ukrainian attack.

A person stands on a balcony damaged in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday [Handout/Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration via Anadolu]

Weapons

Ukraine and France signed an agreement for Kyiv to buy up to 100 Rafale fighter jets over the next 10 years during a meeting between Zelenskyy and Macron in Paris.

Malaysia floods: Nearly 11,000 evacuated across seven states, Kelantan worst hit

Malaysia floods: Nearly 11,000 evacuated across seven states, Kelantan worst hit



Taman Bendahara in Pengkalan Chepa is inundated following continuous heavy rain on November 22, 2025. — Bernama pic

Monday, 24 Nov 2025 10:22 AM MYT


KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 — The number of flood victims across seven Malaysian states has surged to 10,922 people as of 8 am today, with Kelantan bearing the brunt of the disaster.

The northeastern state recorded 8,248 victims from 3,022 families this morning, a sharp increase from 7,830 people the previous night, according to state news agency Bernama.

These victims are now housed in 33 temporary relief centers (PPS) spread across four affected districts: Kota Bharu, Tumpat, Bachok and Pasir Puteh.

According to Infobencana JKM, the situation in Kelantan remains critical. Infopublic Banjir reported that Serdang in Gunong Barat Bachok recorded rainfall of 33.5 millimeters within one hour as of 6 am, indicating continued heavy precipitation in the region.


Beyond Kelantan, several other states are grappling with rising floodwaters. Perlis saw a dramatic surge in victims, jumping to 811 people from 243 families this morning compared to just 114 people from 35 families last night.

In Penang, the number of flood victims increased to 242 people from 57 families, prompting authorities to open two additional relief centres, bringing the total to four PPS as of 7.49 am, according to the JKM Infobencana website.

The two newly opened centers are Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Permatang Pasir in the Seberang Perai Tengah (SPT) district, which is housing 50 victims, and SK Lahar Yooi in Seberang Perai Utara (SPU), which has not yet received any flood victims.


Pusat Pemindahan Desa Puri recorded the highest number of victims at 107 people from 48 families, while SK Pengkalan Jaya is providing shelter for 85 victims involving 18 families. Of the total number of victims in Penang, 151 are adults, 84 are children and two are infants.

Perak also recorded an increase in the number of victims. Meanwhile, Kedah and Terengganu saw a decline in flood victims, offering some relief amid the broader crisis.

Selangor has emerged as the latest state affected by the floods, adding to the growing list of regions requiring emergency response and relief efforts.

Flood warning: Tumpat residents told to prepare as two major rivers set to burst

Flood warning: Tumpat residents told to prepare as two major rivers set to burst



Floods are seen in parts of Kota Bharu on November 22, 2025. — Bernama pic

Monday, 24 Nov 2025 9:15 AM MYT


KOTA BHARU, Nov 24 — The National Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (PRABN) has issued a flood warning for several areas in Tumpat that are expected to be hit by floods beginning this Thursday and Friday.

In a statement yesterday, PRABN said that based on the projected river water levels, which are forecast to rise and exceed the danger mark, flooding may occur in three locations within the district.

“Areas at risk include low-lying zones within five kilometres of Sungai Kelantan, covering Padang Rokma, Bechah Temalang and Chenderong Batu.

“Also expected to be affected are low-lying areas within five kilometres of Sungai Golok in Kampung Kok Kebit and Taman Sri Bayu,” it said.


Flooding is also expected in several low-lying villages along Sungai Golok, including Kampung Pak Keral, Kampung Kok Bedullah, Kampung Nechang, Kampung Pauh Sebanjar, Kampung Neting, Kampung Tujuh, Kubang Sawa, Kajang Sebidang, Telok Jering, Naga Ibu, Pisau Raut, Bendang Pak Yong and Simpangan.

PRABN advised residents in the affected areas to remain alert, comply with instructions from disaster management agencies and obtain updates through the PublicInfoBanjir website and Facebook page. — Bernama