One child is dead and two others are missing in Malaysia, after a suspension bridge they were crossing collapsed, the Bernama national news agency said Tuesday.
A Malaysian model, who was set to become the first woman to be caned in the southeast Asian country for drinking beer in public, had her sentence postponed Monday until the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
A Malaysian model, who is set to become the first woman in the Southeast Asian country to be caned for drinking alcohol in public, wants her punishment carried out in public.
Manchester United have scheduled a second match in Malaysia after rejecting a request from the Indonesian government to fulfil a fixture canceled as a result of bomb attacks in Jakarta.
Malaysia's prime minister wants to step down and has scheduled a meeting with the supreme ruler of the country to hand in his letter of resignation, Malaysia's national news agency reported Saturday.
As a long-running political standoff heightens, Malaysians can only sit and hope that someone will get around to tackling the nation's problems sooner rather than later
One child is dead and two others are missing in Malaysia, after a suspension bridge they were crossing collapsed, the Bernama national news agency said Tuesday.
A Malaysian model, who was set to become the first woman to be caned in the southeast Asian country for drinking beer in public, had her sentence postponed Monday until the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
A Malaysian model, who is set to become the first woman in the Southeast Asian country to be caned for drinking alcohol in public, wants her punishment carried out in public.
Manchester United have scheduled a second match in Malaysia after rejecting a request from the Indonesian government to fulfil a fixture canceled as a result of bomb attacks in Jakarta.
Malaysia's prime minister wants to step down and has scheduled a meeting with the supreme ruler of the country to hand in his letter of resignation, Malaysia's national news agency reported Saturday.
As a long-running political standoff heightens, Malaysians can only sit and hope that someone will get around to tackling the nation's problems sooner rather than later
Malaysia's Islamic opposition party has urged the government to cancel a concert by Avril Lavigne, saying the Canadian singer's on-stage moves are "too sexy," an official said Monday
The country is transfixed by a drama whose second act unfolded in June when the top opposition leader, 61-year-old Anwar Ibrahim, was accused of having sex with a 23-year-old male aide. It sounded very much like a case from 10 years ago
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been released on bail after he was arrested Wednesday for questioning about a sodomy case, Malaysia's home affairs minister told CNN.
After accusing the country's Deputy PM of having an affair with a woman who was later murdered, a private investigator and his family suddenly disappear
For the second time, the country's leading opposition politician is facing sex charges. In an interview with TIME, he calls it a "desperate" attempt by the government to keep him from power
Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against a male aide who accused him of sodomy, vowing to clear his name in the second sex scandal of his life to thrown the country's politics into turmoil
Muslim leaders have urged Malaysians to boycott a planned visit from English Premier League club Chelsea after their government decided to allow the London side's Israeli manager Avram Grant and defender Tal Ben Haim to enter the country.
Malaysia's prime minister took the oath of office for a new five-year term Monday, rejecting calls to resign after an unprecedented electoral setback that has shaken the country's political landscape, the Associated Press reported.
A judge in Malaysia sentenced an Indonesian man to five years in prison for burying his day-old baby alive in a jungle, a local newspaper reported Tuesday.
Inside a nondescript building in the gritty Bangsar district of south Kuala Lumpur rests Malaysiakini.com (Malay for "Malaysia Now"), a newspaper covering Malaysia that exists solely in cyberspace.
Thousands of Hindu protesters met water cannons and tear gas in Malaysia's capital on Sunday while demanding equal rights and consideration from the government.
The largest political protest in nearly a decade erupted in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur, Saturday with riot police aiming water hoses and tear gas at thousands of protesters gathered to demand electoral reform.
An earthquake struck Wednesday off the western Indonesian coast, killing at least nine people, said a spokesman for the country's Social Affairs Department. I-Reporters sent in their stories, photos and video.
Malaysia marked 50 years of independence Friday with dances and parades in a colorful show of ethnic unity that belied worsening race relations and growing fears about eroding minority rights.
Manchester United's controversial pre-season match in Malaysia is set to go ahead in defiance of world governing body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Five-time champion Valentino Rossi served notice of his intent to regain his world MotoGP title with a blistering performance on the final day of testing for the 2007 season in Malaysia.
Anwar Ibrahim was a rising star in Asian politics during the 1990s as Finance Minister and then Deputy Prime Minister under Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. But in 1998, after leading a c...
Kenyan police shot at hundreds demonstrating against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, wounding at least one person, as protests continued across the Muslim world.
On August 30, 2001, then majority whip Tom DeLay, his wife, his staff and two Florida Republican House members arrived in Malaysia on what was billed as an educational trip.
Negotiations to secure a free-trade agreement between Australia and Malaysia have begun in Canberra as the two countries mark a new step in their often troubled relationship.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
Malaysia has pledged full support for Thailand's crackdown on Islamic separatists along their border at a meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
Malaysia says it has sold a nine percent stake in dominant telephone firm Telekom Malaysia for $766 million to a group of offshore investors that includes Singapore's Temasek.
CIA Director George Tenet was wrong when he said this week that Malaysia had closed a plant that made a critical component for Libya's nuclear weapons program, a U.S. official has said.
It is true that in general, capital controls don't work. But one Asian country suggests that under special circumstances they can. We refer, of course, to Taiwan.
By imposing stringent capital controls on Malaysia's econo my on Sept. 1, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad launched an assault on the foreign "speculators" and the international financial orthodoxy ...
Every weekday morning back in 1993, the most delirious year of the giddy 1990s Asia investing boom, stockbrokers from all over Southeast Asia called up mutual fund manager Robert Howe in Hong Kong ...
It's no secret that international investors, whom Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has derided as "criminals" and "morons" for making a run on his currency, would draw deep satisfaction fr...
As far as the citizens of Hong Kong were concerned, Wednesday, Oct. 23, couldn't have been a more inauspicious day. In the city's financial center, a plumbing fault suddenly drained an ornamental p...
SPOOKED BY THE TURMOIL IN INTERNATIONAL stock markets, Americans are increasingly reluctant to invest abroad. In the first two months of 1995, only $829 million of fresh cash flowed into funds that...
PRICE CHECK, Aisle Four! Frozen squid tentacles and Nescafe Cappuccino." If selling in the developing world sounds like a job for a man and a donkey, it's time to have a look at what's happening at...
IT'S A FEW MINUTES before the morning shift at a Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. semiconductor plant. Workers are shuffling toward locker rooms to don ''bunny suits'' and other sanitized apparel...
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I TELL American friends to stop worrying about layoffs at home and come to this region,'' says Laksamana Sukardi, 37, managing director of the Lippo Group, a financial services company in Indonesia...
PREVALENT among U.S. investors not so very long ago was the illusion that putting money into foreign securities was only for daring risk takers. But in recent years more and more Americans have com...
FROM THE burgeoning Asian economies outside Japan -- from South Korea and Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and beyond -- a new breed of corporate giant is rising to challenge top businesses in both t...
JOE BACZKO is a toy salesman, not a demographer. But listen to sound bites from his spiel about why his company, Toys ''R'' Us, is going to knock them dead in Asia, and you get a good picture of th...
JAPAN blazed the export trail. But soon a new group of champions came roaring down that path -- Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. Now a second pack of Asian nations is carving out a gr...
NOTHING proclaims the success of a bustling economy better than a thriving stock market, and these days the Pacific Rim has more than its share. Powered by a cascade of cash from surging trade surp...
IF THERE WERE OSCARS for nations, the ceremonies for newly industrializing countries might go like this: A corporate type from Singapore makes a formal speech about what an honor it is. Taiwan's ma...
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