Latest Malaysia government News

Corruption case involving a former Singaporean transport minister expanded with more charges

Mar. 25, 2024 19:39 PM EDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A corruption case involving a former high-ranking Singaporean official expanded Monday with new charges alleging that the ex-transport minister received bottles of whisky and wine, golf clubs and a luxury Brompton bike from a contractor who had dealings with the...

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. ...

Frozen in time: Families of those on missing Flight 370 cannot shake off their grief without answers

Mar. 07, 2024 02:10 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies. But part of her is frozen in time, still in denial over the loss of her mother on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in 2014. ...

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. ...

Norway's King Harald, Europe's oldest monarch, in hospital in Malaysia after falling ill on vacation

Feb. 28, 2024 19:57 PM EST

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — King Harald V of Norway remained hospitalized with an infection on Malaysia's northern resort island of Langkawi on Wednesday as officials said that his condition was improving. Harald, Europe's oldest monarch at age 87, became ill while he was on...

In water-stressed Singapore, a search for new solutions to keep the taps flowing

Feb. 25, 2024 19:18 PM EST

SINGAPORE (AP) — A crack of thunder booms as dozens of screens in a locked office flash between live video of cars splashing through wet roads, drains sapping the streets dry, and reservoirs collecting the precious rainwater across the tropical island of Singapore. A team of government employees...

Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations

Feb. 14, 2024 15:11 PM EST

BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft said Wednesday that U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations. The technology giant and business...

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. ...

Thailand and Muslim separatist rebels agree on roadmap to peace, Malaysian facilitator says

Feb. 07, 2024 06:20 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's facilitator said Wednesday that the Thai government and Muslim separatist rebels in southern Thailand have agreed in principle on a roadmap to try to end a decades-long Muslim insurgency. The sides held two days of talks in the Malaysian...