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Malaysian convenience store owners charged over 'Allah' socks that angered Muslims

Mar. 26, 2024 04:27 AM EDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The owners of a Malaysian convenience store chain and one of its suppliers were charged Tuesday with offending the religious feelings of Muslims after socks printed with the word “Allah" were found for sale on its shelves. Chai Kee Kan, founder and...

Malaysian prime minister urges US and China cooperation in Asia-Pacific

Mar. 07, 2024 04:02 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Malaysia’s prime minister said Thursday that the United States has become more “transactional,” using rewards and punishments to achieve aims with other countries, and should be encouraged to enhance cooperation with China in the Asia-Pacific region. ...

MH370 disappeared a decade ago. Here's what we know about one of aviation's biggest mysteries

Mar. 05, 2024 23:38 PM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A decade ago on March 8, a Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace, becoming one of aviation’s biggest mysteries. Investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane and its 239 passengers. But Malaysia’s government said...

Malaysia's prime minister resists US pressure and says Malaysians don't have a problem with China

Mar. 04, 2024 03:52 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Malaysia’s prime minister on Monday spoke up in defense of ties with China and complained over alleged pressure by the United States and its allies on regional nations to take sides in the West’s strategic rivalries with Beijing. Prime Minister...

Malaysia may renew the search for MH370 a decade after the flight disappeared

Mar. 04, 2024 01:31 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian officials said Sunday they may renew the hunt for MH370, after a U.S. company that tried to find the plane in 2018 proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed a decade ago. ...

Plane believed to be carrying Norway's king departs Malaysia, a day after he received a pacemaker in a hospital

Mar. 03, 2024 00:07 AM EST
LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Plane believed to be carrying Norway's king departs Malaysia, a day after he received a pacemaker in a hospital.

King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia

Feb. 27, 2024 14:31 PM EST

STOCKHOLM (AP) — King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia, the Norwegian royal house said in a statement Tuesday. The 87-year-old monarch has had several illnesses in recent months, raising concern about the head of state's...

Malaysia's top court invalidates state's Islam-based laws on incest, sodomy and other offenses

Feb. 09, 2024 08:54 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's top court on Friday struck down Shariah-based criminal laws in an opposition-run state, saying they encroached on federal authority. Islamists denounced the decision and said it could undermine religious courts across the Muslim-majority nation. ...

Ex-Malaysian leader Najib disappointed he wasn't given a full royal pardon for 12-year graft term

Feb. 07, 2024 03:51 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak is disapppinted he wasn't given a full royal pardon of his 12-year prison sentence for graft, and may file a new appeal to the new monarch, his lawyer said Wednesday. The decision last week by the Pardons Board...

Malaysia halves prison term for ex-Prime Minister who oversaw multibillion-dollar 1MDB thefts

Feb. 02, 2024 07:35 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's Pardons Board said Friday it has reduced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak's 12-year jail sentence by half and sharply cut a fine, less than two years into his sentence from a corruption case linked to the theft of billions of dollars from state coffers. ...