KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim had a long-awaited meeting with the king, seeking to prove he has support to take power and fulfil a decades-old ambition of becoming premier. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since a reformist government headed by Mahathir Mohamad – which included ...
Read More »Malaysia to deport refugees to Bangladesh
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation’s defence minister said. Malaysia does not recognise refugee status but has been a favoured destination for ethnic Rohingya, most of them Muslims, ...
Read More »Malaysian scientists invent ‘Medibot’ for coronavirus patients
KAULAMPUR: Malaysian scientists have created a robot that they hope will make the rounds on hospital wards to check on coronavirus patients, reducing health workers’ risk of infection. “Medibot” is a 1.5 metre tall (five-foot) white robot, equipped with a camera and screen via which patients can communicate remotely with ...
Read More »FAA downgrades Malaysia’s air safety rating
KUALA LUMPUR: The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded Malaysia’s air safety rating, restricting the country’s airlines from adding flights to the United States, four sources familiar with the matter and a US government official told Reuters. The FAA’s safety rating is based on a country’s aviation oversight regime ...
Read More »Mahathir stands by Kashmir comments despite Indian traders palm oil boycott
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday said he would not retract his criticism of New Delhi’s actions in occupied Kashmir despite Indian traders calling for an unprecedented boycott of Malaysian palm oil. The impasse could exacerbate what Mahathir described as a trade war between the world’s second ...
Read More »Malaysian PM Matahir urges world to resolve Kashmir crisis
KUALA-LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged investing in ways and means to sort out the Kashmir dispute. Talking to media at a parliament lobby in Kuala Lumpur, he said he had also raised issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when they met in Vladivostok, Russia. He ...
Read More »Malaysia, Bangladesh accuse Myanmar of ‘insincerity’ on Rohingya crisis
DHAKA: According to a report by Bangladeshi-daily, the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the international community assured Bangladesh of remaining engaged in the efforts to solve Rohingya crisis so that forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals can return to their homeland with safety, security and dignity. “The world community have shown ...
Read More »Toxic haze: Thousands Of Schools Shut In Malaysia and Indonesia
KUALA LUMPUR: Thousands of schools were shuttered across Malaysia and Indonesia, affecting at least 1.7 million pupils, officials said, as toxic haze from rampant forest fires sent air quality plummeting. Nearly 2,500 schools were ordered to shut their doors in Malaysia – including nearly 300 in the smog-hit capital Kuala ...
Read More »Malaysia ex-PM Najib’s biggest 1MDB trial begins
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s ex-prime minister Najib Razak played a pivotal role in plundering the state’s 1MDB fund and channelled hundreds of millions of dollars into his own bank account, a prosecutor said Wednesday at the opening of his most significant graft trial. Claims that Najib and his cronies pilfered massive ...
Read More »Irish, French ‘satisfied’ with Nóra postmortem, Malaysian police say
Irish and French police who observed the post-mortem on the body of Nóra Quoirin in Malaysia were satisfied with the work of the local pathology team, Malaysian media have reported. The Malay Mail quoted the Negeri Sembilan police chief, Mohamad Mat Yusop, as saying: “There is no request from Ireland ...
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