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KUALA LUMPUR Lawyers representing Rosmah Mansor were urged by a High Court judge to give priority to her case, after a witness failed to show up to give evidence in her corruption trial on Friday (Feb 4). According to Malaysian media…

KUALA LUMPUR The Ministry of Health (MoH) has decided to reopen the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) that was suspended from December 23, 2021 until January 20, 2022. In a statement, MoH said the VTL land and air schemes will resume…

KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Parliament passed a number of constitutional amendments to elevate the status of Sabah and Sarawak within the federation. The move comes just four days before legislative polls in Sarawak, the country's…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is weighing tough new sanctions on Myanmar to pressure the country’s military leaders to restore a democratic path interrupted by a February…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob scored a victory on Thursday (Nov 18) after Parliament approved the budget for next year. Passage of the measure was seen as the first test of a deal between Datuk Seri Ismail…

KUALA LUMPUR Canada has paused imports from Malaysian glove maker Supermax Corp as it awaits the results of an audit, weeks after the United States barred the firm over allegations the company uses forced labour. Malaysian factories…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is set to reopen the traveler haven of the Langkawi islands to overseas visitors, under a pilot global tourism bubble mission that will run for three months. The authorities has approved protocols for global…

The United States has barred imports from a Malaysian latex glove maker over alleged labour abuses, the latest firm from the country to face such a ban. The relatively affluent Southeast Asian nation is home to millions of migrant…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia on Sunday lifted interstate and international travel restrictions for residents completely vaccinated against Covid-19, as the country carried out its target of inoculating 90% of its adult population. Prime…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia late Monday summoned Beijing's envoy to the South-east Asian country in protest after Chinese vessels entered its maritime financial sector in the disputed South China Sea. Kuala Lumpur summoned Chinese…

KUALA LUMPUR Myanmar's failure to cooperate with a distinctive envoy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will make it challenging to have the country's junta chief attend an upcoming summit of the group, Malaysia's…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians would be allowed to travel abroad for leisure by December and perhaps quicker depending on the country’s Covid-19 vaccination rate, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. In an interview with…

PUTRAJAYA The Agriculture and Food Industries Ministry (Mafi) through the Department of Agriculture is ready to help individuals who have an interest in becoming coffee entrepreneurs, “from starting to end” — starting with the…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has given conditional approval for a Covid-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac to be used on children aged between 12 and 17, its health ministry said on Friday. Teenagers younger than 18 began receiving Covid-19…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's AirAsia X Bhd on Monday posted a record quarterly loss of $5.9 billion, eight times more than a year ago, as a multi-billion-dollar provision to cover debts drove operating costs higher. It was the ninth loss…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Singapore are discussing the possibility of reopening their borders soon, said Malaysia's foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah. Datuk Saifuddin was assuring lawmakers within the Dewan Rakyat after several of…

PETALING JAYA 67 children dying due to Covid-19 this year compared to 6 deaths in 2020, the Malaysian Health Ministry aims to complete Covid-19 inoculation for 80 percent of eligible children before school reopens in 2022. Health…

KUALA LUMPUR Three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers are arrested for allegedly misappropriating funds connected to a case involving the country's former spymaster, further tarnishing the image of the agency. The…

KUALA LUMPUR Carsome Group, a web platform for getting and selling used cars, said on Wednesday that it had become Malaysia’s largest tech unicorn after a $170 million funding round boosted its valuation to $1.3 billion. Investors…

KUALA LUMPUR Audit firm KPMG has agreed to a settlement valued at RM333 million (S$108 million) to resolve all claims associated with its fiduciary duties on auditing of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) accounts for the amount of 2010…

KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government is being criticized by civil society organizations and one among its own Cabinet members for deciding to appeal against a landmark court ruling that equalized the rights of Malaysian mothers and…

HANOI Even as they struggle with one among the world's worst Covid-19 outbreaks, nations across Southeast Asia are slowly realizing that they will not afford the economy-crippling restrictions needed to squash it. On the factory…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A worsening coronavirus outbreak in Malaysia has sparked alarm and is spilling over into neighboring Thailand, which recently discovered a more infectious variant in its south believed to have come from Malaysia.…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s finance ministry said Monday that sovereign wealth fund 1MDB and a former subsidiary have filed 22 lawsuits to recover assets worth over $23 billion from various institutions and individuals. 1MDB was set up by…

Liang Tuang Nah For much of its history, North Korea has not only lived up to its reputation as a rogue state but also appeared able to commit misdeeds with impunity. Numerous South Korean and Japanese citizens have been abducted by…

JAKARTA, Indonesia Rescuers continued an urgent search Friday for an Indonesian submarine that disappeared two days ago and has less than a day’s supply of oxygen left for its 53 crew. The KRI Nanggala 402 went missing after its last…

The UN's special envoy for Myanmar is to embark on an Asian tour to step up diplomatic efforts to tackle the crisis, as the death toll from the junta's crackdown on dissent passed 600 on Friday. The push by Christine Schraner Burgener…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Sime Darby Plantation on Thursday brought back over 100 migrant workers from Bangladesh as part of a pilot scheme to overcome labour shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a freeze on recruitment of new…

Putrajaya, Malaysia Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak on Monday began an appeal against his conviction on corruption charges and 12-year jail term linked to the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal. Najib was found guilty last…

Manila The Philippine military ordered the deployment of more navy ships to the South China Sea Thursday amid a growing diplomatic row over a fleet of Chinese boats parked near a disputed reef. China claims almost the entirety of the…

KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian court on Tuesday granted international human rights groups permission to challenge the recent deportation of Myanmar nationals, a major step in a country where the law bars immigration decisions from being…

Dhaka Bangladesh is under “no obligation” to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. India’s coast…

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia's king said Wednesday parliament can sit during a state of emergency, in a blow for the embattled prime minister whose government is on the verge of collapse. Parliament has been suspended since the king declared…

LUMUT, Malaysia Malaysia on Tuesday deported over 1,000 Myanmar nationals back to their homeland just weeks after a coup, the country's immigration chief said, despite a court order halting the repatriation and a storm of criticism from…

JAKARTA The leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia on Friday said they were seeking a special meeting of foreign ministers of Southeast Asian nations to discuss the situation in Myanmar, where an elected government was overthrown in a coup…

Lhokseumawe,Indonesia Scores of Rohingya women missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia have been trafficked into Malaysia to reunite with their husbands, several sources have told. Just over 100 refugees remain at the camp in…

Malaysian authorities on Friday seized a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing-777 at the Kuala Lumpur Airport. The PIA plane was seized on the orders of a local Malaysian court over the non-payment of aircraft lease dues, sources…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia has declared a coronavirus emergency that will suspend Parliament at least until August and halt any bids to seek a general election, but critics charged it was a political move by embattled Prime Minister…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia The number of people evacuated due to floods in Malaysia caused by monsoon rains exceeded 20,000 early Tuesday. A total of 20,838 people affected by the monsoon rains since Jan. 1 in the Pahang, Johor, Kelantan,…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s police said on Monday they have asked opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to give a statement after they received complaints about names of lawmakers appearing in news media reportedly backing his claim to the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A Malaysian student whose cellphone was stolen while he was sleeping has tracked down the culprit: a monkey who took photo and video selfies with the device before abandoning it. Zackrydz Rodzi, 20, said…

The world has lost nearly 100 million hectares of forests in two decades, marking a steady decline though at a slower pace than before, a UN agency reported Tuesday. The proportion of forest to total land area fell from 31.9% in 2000 to…

Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia Malaysia should immediately release the final report and recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the human trafficking and mass graves of Rohingya and Bangladeshis discovered in Wang Kelian,…

HANOI, Vietnam U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to reconsider deals with Chinese companies blacklisted by Washington for building island outposts he says Beijing is using to “bully” rival…

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on August 29 reacted to repeated claims of Philippine politicians and officials in the recent past that its easternmost state of Sabah would be a territorial part of the Philippines. “Sabah is a…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia has reported its economy contracted 17% in the last quarter in its worst downturn since the global financial crisis. The central bank said the real rate of annual growth was 16.5% in the April-June quarter,…

PENANG, Malaysia Malaysia’s former finance minister pleaded not guilty Monday to a second corruption charge related to a $1.5 billion undersea tunnel project and slammed the case as a trumped-up charge by the new government. Lim Guan Eng,…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A Malaysian court pronounced former Prime Minister Najib Razak guilty Tuesday in his first corruption trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB investment fund. The ruling came five months after a new…

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysian authorities said on Saturday they had arrested a Bangladeshi man who criticized the government's treatment of migrant workers in a documentary by broadcaster Al Jazeera. The July 3 documentary on…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia After years of insisting on his innocence, former Malaysian leader Najib Razak learns his fate this week in his first corruption trial linked to one of the world’s biggest financial scandals — a verdict widely seen…

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysia on Thursday said a license would be required to make any video in the country, even those posted on social media platforms like TikTok, sparking a storm of criticism. Critics slammed it as the latest move…

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia A group of Rohingya who survived a perilous sea voyage to Malaysia are set to be caned for entering the country illegally, activists said Tuesday, decrying the "barbaric" sentence. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim…

MINNEAPOLIS An anti-trafficking organization has filed a petition to ban the importation of palm oil produced by one of the world’s largest suppliers, saying it found evidence of child and forced labor on plantations that supply American…

KUALA LUMPUR After the government of Pakistan's admission that many of its pilots held dubious licenses, Malaysia's aviation regulator announced it was temporarily suspending pilots who hold Pakistani licences and were employed by its…

Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia Malaysian media outlet Malaysiakini and its editor-in-chief Steven Gan are facing a contempt of court charge over comments left by readers on one of its articles. The charge was filed by Malaysian Attorney-General…

Dhaka, Bangladesh Rohingya refugees attempting to reach Malaysia by boat from Bangladesh are being held hostage by human traffickers who have demanded large ransoms from their relatives with threats of violence, according to several…

Malaysia on Thursday decided against sending people to the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was announced by Religious Affairs Minister Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri during a news conference in…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysian authorities detained 269 Rohingya refugees and found a body on board a suspected smuggling boat they said had been intentionally damaged so it couldn’t be turned back to sea. How long the Rohingya were at…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak was victimized by rogue bankers and should be acquitted of corruption linked to the massive looting of a state investment fund, his lawyers said Friday at the close of his…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s health ministry reported 153 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday, raising the cumulative total to 4,683, the highest in Southeast Asia. The latest data includes three new deaths, raising the…

BERLIN Governments around the globe grappled Wednesday with how to implement border closures, travel restrictions and lockdowns that have unleashed transportation chaos and imperiled economies, but which authorities say are needed to slow…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad went back to work on Tuesday with the new title of interim prime minister, a day after he resigned the leadership in a shock move that plunged the country into political turmoil. Mahathir, who at…

Yadav Ghimirey Kathmandu,Nepal Very few biologists will argue over the statement that Binturong Arctitis binturong is one of the most enigmatic of all mammals. This furry, arboreal and nocturnal mammal has flummoxed all biologists in…

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s legal professional basic on Thursday declined to prosecute anybody linked to a sequence of leaked movies purportedly exhibiting the financial affairs minister having intercourse with a person. The minister, Azmin…

NEW DELHI Some commercial airlines on Wednesday rerouted flights crossing the Middle East to avoid possible danger amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. Australian carrier Qantas said it was altering its London to…