Malaysia’s new Twitter police target critics of PM Najib
By A. Ananthalakshmi Digitally savvy Malaysian police have been taking to social media to issue warnings to critics of scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak in...
Prime Minister Najib Razak
Malaysian PM’s critics unbowed despite anti-graft agency support (Updated)
By Praveen Menon Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently...
Malaysian police raid 1MDB office, PM weighs legal options
By Trinna Leong and Yantoultra Ngui Malaysian police raided the office of troubled state investment fund 1MDB on Wednesday, following a report that claimed investigators...
Myanmar says finds more than 200 Bangladeshis in boat offshore (Updated)
By Tim McLaughlin and Aung Hla Tun Myanmar’s navy has brought ashore 200 Bangladeshis found in a boat off its coast, after its military chief...
Malaysia orders rescue of migrant boats, Thailand says no to shelters
By Praveen Menon and Amy Sawitta Lefevre Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Thursday he had ordered the navy to conduct search and rescue...
Malaysia toughens sedition law to include online media ban, mandatory jail
By Trinna Leong Malaysia has strengthened its controversial sedition law, imposing a minimum jail term of three years and allowing the government to block online...
Militants in Malaysia planned raids for guns, attacks in capital
By Praveen Menon Suspected militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS) had planned to raid Malaysian army camps and police stations to seize weapons and...
US official says MH370 search likely to last for years
By Matt Siegel and Byron Kaye The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior US defence official said on...
Search for MH370 to be most expensive in aviation history
By Jane Wardell The hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is on track to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, becoming the most expensive search in...
Chinese ship searching for missing Malaysia plane detects signal
By Siva Govindasamy and Swati Pandey A Chinese patrol ship hunting for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner detected a pulse signal in the south Indian Ocean on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported,...
Hunt for Malaysian plane heads underwater to find black box
By Swati Pandey The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in remote seas off Australia headed underwater on Friday, with a US Navy high tech “black box” locator deployed for the first...
Lowered expectations as Malaysia Airlines search drags on
By Matt Siegel The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed on Wednesday, even as senior Australian officials warned that bad weather and a lack of reliable...
Changed account of final words as hunt for missing jet goes on
By Stuart Grudgings and Matt Siegel The last words from the cockpit of a missing Malaysian jet were a standard “Good night Malaysian three seven zero”, Malaysian authorities...
Philippines, Muslim rebels sign final peace deal to end conflict
By Rosemarie Francisco and Manuel Mogato The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), on Thursday signed a final peace pact, ending about...
Area of Malaysia plane search now size of Australia (Updated)
By Anshuman Daga and Niluksi Koswanage An international land and sea search for a missing Malaysian jetliner is covering an area the size of Australia,...
Lost passenger jet was diverted deliberately-Malaysian PM
By Anshuman Daga and Siva Govindasamy Investigators believe someone aboard a missing Malaysian airliner deliberately shut off its communications and tracking systems, turned the plane...