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Malaysia: Ex-leader urges 'people power' to topple scandal-hit PM

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, 90, has urged anti-government protesters to step up their ‘people power’ movement to remove the country’s

30/08/2015

Malaysia

Malaysia: Protesters demand resignation of PM Najib Razak over financial scandal

Malaysia’s political crisis hit the streets on Saturday with tens of thousands of people denouncing Prime Minister Najib Razak as corrupt and

29/08/2015

Malaysia

Search for MH370 wreckage intensifies at Reunion Island

France is extending the search for debris along the coast of its remote island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean after a piece of wing was found there

07/08/2015

Malaysia

Kerry blasts Beijing over South China Sea 'militarisation'

US Secretary of State John Kerry had strong words for Beijing, as tensions over the disputed South China Sea surfaced at the East Asia Summit on

06/08/2015

Malaysia

More debris found on Reunion island in hunt for Flight MH370

Seat cushions and plane windows have now been found on Reunion Island, the Malaysian government said on Thursday. It earlier confirmed that a wing

06/08/2015

Malaysia

MH370: No closure for relatives after Reunion debris find

Reaction has been mixed following the announcement that the plane part found on Reunion came from missing flight MH370. In Beijing families of those

06/08/2015

Malaysia

Aircraft debris found on Réunion confirmed from flight MH370

The first piece of wreckage from the first-ever lost Boeing 777, which vanished back in early March along with 239 people on board has been found

05/08/2015

Malaysia

Aircraft debris found on Réunion confirmed from flight MH370

The first piece of wreckage from the first-ever lost Boeing 777, which vanished back in early March along with the 239 people on board, has been

05/08/2015

Malaysia

ASEAN foreign ministers set to discuss South China Sea tensions

Foreign ministers from Southeast Asia are meeting in Malaysia, with territorial disputes in the South China Sea set to be a key talking point. The

04/08/2015

Malaysia

'Ultimate Frisbee' scores Olympic accreditation

03/08/2015

Sport

IOC set to vote between Beijing or Almaty to host 2022 Winter Olympics

The International Olympic Committee on Friday will decide who will host the 2022 Winter Games at the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The

30/07/2015

Sport

Beijing and Almaty await 2022 Winter Olympic decision

The International Olympic committee will decide the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday in Kuala Lumpur. The IOC members will choose

27/07/2015

Sport

Bach arrives in Kuala Lumpur for IOC session

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach arrived in Malayia’s capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday ready for IOC’s 128th executive board

24/07/2015

Malaysia

Malaysia wants UN-backed tribunal over MH17

Malaysia is to push for a United Nations-backed tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine. UN Security

03/07/2015

Malaysia

Western tourists jailed for naked mountain pose

Four Western tourists who posed naked on top of a Malaysian mountain have been fined and jailed for three days. Their actions were blamed by some

13/06/2015

Malaysia

Malaysia arrests foreigner over nude pictures in quake furore

09/06/2015

Malaysia

19 Climbers killed in quake near Malaysia's highest mountain

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has hit near Malaysia’s highest mountain. The quake by Mount Kinabalu in Sabah state killed at least 19 climbers

06/06/2015

Malaysia

Malaysia: Police officials arrested as over 100 'migrant graves' discovered

Malaysia’s deputy home minister says 139 uncovered graves, which are believed to contain the corpses of trafficked migrants, appear to hold one body

28/05/2015

Malaysia

Forensic police in Malaysia exhume migrant corpses buried along the Thai border

Malaysian forensic teams are involved in the macabre task of exhuming the bodies of hundreds of migrants found at 140 grave sites and abandoned

26/05/2015

Malaysia

Malaysian forensic officers examine remains of migrants found along Thai border

Police forensic teams in Malaysia are at work to identify whether the remains uncovered at 139 grave sites and 28 abandoned camps are Bangladeshi or

26/05/2015

Malaysia

Malaysian police find 139 mass graves near Thai border

25/05/2015

Malaysia

Dozens of suspected migrant graves found near Malaysia-Thailand border, police reveal

Malaysian police have revealed that 140 graves, believed to contain the remains of migrants, have been found near the country’s border with Thailand

25/05/2015

Sport

Badminton bad boy back on court

Lee Chong Wei, former badminton world number one, is set to return to the court after being handed a eight-month backdated ban by the Badminton World

28/04/2015

Malaysia

Search area for missing flight MH370 to double

Transport ministers from Malaysia, China and Australia have pledged to double the search area for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane if the current

16/04/2015

Malaysia

Dutch-led team to investigate last unexamined area of downed MH17 flight

A team of investigators has gained access to the area where the last unexamined wreckage of the downed Malaysian Airlines MH17 lies. The team hope to

15/04/2015

Malaysia

Senior officials killed in Malaysia helicopter crash

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff as well as a former ambassador to the United States were among six people killed in a

05/04/2015