Aizat

Mostly retweets of what i find interesting.

[Fab Rahman @FabriRahman]

Malaysia has lost one of the greatest women to have ever served our nation.

Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali was so much more than the wife of a Prime Minister. She was a pioneer in her own right — one of Malaya’s earliest Malay women doctors.

[Wisma Putra @MalaysiaMFA]

#PressRelease

[113/2026]

MALAYSIA STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

[Elizabeth Vstx @EVostox]

[English] 08/09/2026

"𝐋𝐆𝐋 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡"

🚨𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬🚨Today at 1540hrs. A BO-105CB (9M-LFF) of Layang Layang Aerospace are crashed near Long Lellang STOLport (IATA-LGL) in Sarawak. 9M-LFF operating Flying Doctor Service flight with 5 souls on board

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[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Do the people making this just think it’s really cool and not consider the ramifications, or do they fully know and it’s on purpose? Who is this for???

[The Straits Times @straits_times]

Two rulers, one ballot: How will Negeri Sembilan’s royal crisis sway voters? https://t.co/MeoWh5pP7i

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

The reopening of direct flights between Europe and #Syria gathers pace.

Germany, the European country hosting the largest number of Syrian refugees, has become today the 3rd country to resume flights to Syria since the fall of Assad.

The flight took off from Dusseldorf and is now en route to Damascus.

[POPULAR FRONT @PopularFront_]

🇹🇭 #Thailand - 🇲🇾 #Malaysia: Two Malaysian nationals were seriously injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near their vehicle while they were driving past a roadside culvert in Thailand's Tak Bai district yesterday.

Thai authorities said the IED was intended to target a military vehicle, but instead detonated beneath the tourists' car as it passed by.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, although the device's characteristics (reportedly radio-controlled and containing around 70 kg of explosives concealed inside a gas cylinder) match IEDs previously used by insurgents operating in southern Thailand.

(via MalayMail, counteriedreport & channelnewsasia on IG)

[✳️Ⓐ Armed Joy 🔫💣 @ArmedJ0y]

Insanity lmao.
First self-defense case of a dude one-handing a Draco while wearing meta glasses? xD

[Mr WB🌏🇲🇾🇵🇸 @WBWhiskeyBravo]

The Silent Mapping of Sarawak: China’s Grey-Zone Fleet Tightens Its Grip

Right now, a quiet but deeply troubling shift is happening just off the coast of Sarawak. Tracking data up to June 10, 2026, reveals that China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels are practically making themselves at home inside the Malaysian Maritime Zone (MMZ). If you look at the paths taken by CCG 5302 and CCG 5403, these ships sailed straight down from Hainan and immediately settled into slow, overlapping patrol loops around South Luconia Shoals (Gugusan Beting Patinggi Ali) and North Luconia Shoals (Gugusan Beting Raja Jarum). They aren't just passing through on a normal transit; they are loitering at speeds as slow as 1 to 8 knots. This places them right in the backyard of Malaysia's vital offshore oil and gas fields, hanging over local operations like a permanent shadow. Meanwhile, CCG 5309 is tightly patrolling around Ardasier Bank (Permatang Ubi), and the massive 12,000-ton "Monster Ship" (CCG 5901) is holding its ground near Vanguard Bank, keeping intense pressure on the western edges of the eastern MMZ.

What makes this situation truly alarming is how seamlessly China is pairing these coast guard escorts with specialized research and survey vessels. The data shows that the advanced research ship XIANG YANG HONG 33 traveled all the way down from Guangdong, working its way through the West Philippine Sea before pushing deep into the waters off Sarawak. Alongside it, support vessels like YUE ZHAN YU ZHI 20026 and YUE XIA YU ZHI 20027 are believed to have been busy conducting surveys, marine research or water sampling around Gugusan Semarang Peninjau (GSP). Under international maritime law (UNCLOS), no foreign country is allowed to map the seabed or conduct marine research inside another nation's EEZ without explicit permission. By completely ignoring this rule, these ships are freely mapping the ocean floor, collecting sonar data, and tracing underwater topography. It is an unauthorized intelligence-gathering operation happening right under Malaysia's nose.

This isn't a random, one-off scientific expedition either; it is a highly coordinated, rotating pattern. Before heading over to Terumbu Peninjau (Investigator Shoal), this exact same trio—XIANG YANG HONG 33, YUE ZHAN YU ZHI 20026, and YUE XIA YU ZHI 20027—spent a significant amount of time mapping the complex underwater environment around Luconia Shoals. This entire fleet, acting under the close protection of the CCG, originally targeted the reefs of the West Philippine Sea before moving smoothly southward into East Malaysia’s waters. By floating seamlessly across these maritime borders, Beijing is essentially treating the shared waters of Southeast Asian nations as one giant, continuous research laboratory, methodically mapping the region’s continental shelf block by block.

If there was ever any doubt about how closely these ships work together, satellite imagery from June 6, 2026, strips it all away. Captured at Terumbu Laya (Dallas Reef), the image provides undeniable "ground truth" proof of a physical gathering at sea. You can clearly see the survey vessels YUE ZHAN YU ZHI 20026 and YUE XIA YU ZHI 20027 bunched tight against the research ship XIANG YANG HONG 33 right along the edge of the reef, while CCG 5309 sits perfectly positioned nearby to act as an armed shield. This snapshot proves these aren't independent civilian science boats that accidentally drifted off course. They are operating as a single, unified unit, using the muscle of the China Coast Guard to lock down the area and secure their illegal mapping operations.

This situation puts a spotlight on the massive contrast in how regional neighbors handle these "grey-zone" tactics. Manila has adopted a policy of "assertive transparency"—they openly confront CCG ships, embed journalists on patrol vessels, and fire off immediate diplomatic protests the second a Chinese research ship slips into their EEZ. Kuala Lumpur, on the other hand, has stuck to its traditional "quiet diplomacy," preferring behind-the-scenes talks and avoiding any public call-outs or friction on the water. But this difference in pushback has created a lopsided reality: while Chinese fleets face intense public exposure and friction in Philippine waters, they find a path of much less resistance in the MMZ, allowing them to map Malaysia's seabed with almost zero operational risk.

Ultimately, this ongoing silence from the federal government is a gamble with Malaysia's maritime future. In diplomacy, staying quiet for too long can easily be misread as "tacit acquiescence"—a silent thumbs-up. Because Beijing is facing zero public pushback or official diplomatic friction from Putrajaya, it slowly normalizes their presence. Without any real opposition, China will only grow bolder. It is a slippery slope that could eventually lead to Chinese assets openly interfering with PETRONAS or foreign drilling company operations, aggressively pushing back local Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) or Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) patrols, or harassing local fishermen trying to make a living.

To make matters worse, there seems to be a serious disconnect between the federal government and the state of Sarawak. Because national security and foreign policy are strictly handled in Putrajaya, the true scale, intensity, and sheer frequency of these daily incursions are likely not being fully shared with Sarawak's leadership. It leaves the local government largely in the dark about a massive grey-zone threat operating right on their doorstep. This is a critical blind spot, especially when you consider that if things ever escalate out at sea, it is Sarawak’s offshore energy lifelines and maritime sovereignty that are directly on the line.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Three in four residents across 10 PPRs in the Klang Valley continue to face unchanged or worsening stress levels since the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to a Think City report, suicide remains a recurring issue in most PPRs, with estimated rates of about 20 cases per 100,000 people annually, more than three times the national average.

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[SeaLight @SeaLightFound]

🇨🇳"The Monster" returns to 🇲🇾#Malaysia's exclusive economic zone🚢

For the second time this year, #China Coast Guard 5901, the world's largest coast guard ship, is conducting an intrusive patrol off Malaysia's coast.

The CCG's largest ships conduct intrusive patrols to normalize Beijing’s vast maritime claims, create de facto jurisdiction, intimidate other claimants & gradually shift the status quo without triggering open conflict.

Commonly referred to as The Monster, CCG 5901 is one of two 12,000-ton Zhaotou-class cutters in the CCG's inventory, and is fitted with one 76mm main gun & two 30mm autocannons.

The ship's patrol track has also taken it through 🇻🇳#Vietnam's & 🇮🇩#Indonesia's EEZs over the past week.

[Paweł Wójcik 🦋 @SaladinAlDronni]

Unprecedented statement by JNIM has just been released.
JNIM claims to have attacked:
-the houses of Malian dictator Ghoita, Mali minister of Defense.
-Modibo Keita airport in Bamako
-Kati base
-taken control over Mopti, parts of Gao and Séváre
(!) Together in alliance with the Tuaregs from the Liberation of Azawad Front (FLA) seized Kidal.
JNIM claims to uphold transformation in interests of religion, the country and its people.
(!) JNIM calls on Russia to abstain from the conflict in exchange for not targeting the Russians currently hiding in bases and besieged by JNIM/FLA forces.
Massive political implications. #Mali

[Analytica Camillus @AnalyticaCamil1]

It’s a smidgin on the depressing side that a piece like this, which should be a haymaker sharp enough to wake-up just about anyone, will probably go over the heads of most Americans…

“This seems to indicate the military campaign developed by Central Command and the Pentagon could not have possibly been scoped to an achievable end. The military will certainly act in the absence of strategy — we have seen that many times — but tactical brilliance cannot compensate for that. And without war aims and strategy, victory against Iran will be impossible…

The key thing to understand, however, is this: The United States is not a victor imposing terms and garnering spoils. Until the White House realizes that a ledger of destroyed targets is not a substitute for a better and enduring political reality, we aren’t just walking the path to defeat — we are blindly sprinting down it.”

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

This war might have already broken the record for the highest number of AI-generated videos and images that have gone viral during a conflict.

Interestingly, I said the exact same thing right after the 12-day war in June.

Welcome to our brave new world of AI misinformation.

[Analytica Camillus @AnalyticaCamil1]

Holy fuck — the Iranian government isn’t a personalist authoritarian regime, it’s not dominated by a cult of personality (i.e. how the Venezuelan government ‘still’ revolves around Hugo Chavez’s statements and philosophy).

Iran replaces its political and religious leaders by election (in the political realm, ‘popular’ elections, in the religious realm ‘elite’ elections), the only people who are ‘appointed’ are in the IRGC. Killing their leaders just creates job openings for the next ambitious dude, just like in the US.

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

Today’s satellite imagery of Dubai shows the impact sites of Iranian strikes

[Wisma Putra @MalaysiaMFA]

[LATEST] 

#PressRelease | 
#SiaranAkhbar

[020/2026] 

TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR MALAYSIANS IN IRAN, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, QATAR, BAHRAIN AND THE UAE

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NASIHAT PERJALANAN UNTUK WARGANEGARA MALAYSIA DI IRAN, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, QATAR, BAHRAIN DAN EMIRIAH ARAB BERSATU (UAE)

#WismaPutra

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Iran is sending out warnings on VHF announcing the banning of all ships from the Strait of Hormuz.

However, traffic is still moving.

What's Going on with Shipping will be monitoring traffic through the Strait.

[Consulate General of Malaysia in Dubai @MYCGDXB]

1/ *NOTICE TO MALAYSIANS IN THE UAE*

In view of the growing regional tensions in the Middle East, the Embassy of Malaysia in Abu Dhabi and the Consulate General of Malaysia in Dubai advise all Malaysians residing in or visiting the United Arab Emirates to remain calm and be..