Malaysia

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines launch joint operation against Daesh

Jun 19, 2017 09:54

Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have launched a joint maritime operation against Daesh-linked militants holed up in a southern Philippine city.
Malaysian plane returns to airport after false bomb threat

Jun 01, 2017 00:25

Armed police have stormed a Malaysia Airlines flight, which was forced to return to Melbourne after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit claiming he had a bomb, officials say.
Malaysian police arrest 6 Daesh suspects

May 27, 2017 10:26

Security forces in Malaysia have arrested six local people suspected of membership in the Takfiri Deash terrorist group.
Malaysia deports 3 Turkish nationals linked to failed coup

May 12, 2017 04:27

Malaysia has deported three Turkish nationals wanted by Ankara for alleged links to a US-based preacher accused of being behind last year’s failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
MH370 ‘most likely’ lies north of search zone: Australian experts

Apr 21, 2017 08:44

Australian scientists are now more confident than ever that they have worked out where the wreckage of missing flight MH370 is located.
Kim murder suspects appear in Malaysia court, trial postponed

Apr 13, 2017 08:10

Two women accused of murdering North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un’s exiled half-brother in Malaysia have appeared at a court.
Malaysia, North Korea reach agreement in Kim’s killing row

Mar 31, 2017 08:34

Malaysia and North Korea have lifted mutual bans on nationals from each country leaving the other as part of an agreement that ends a bitter row following the assassination of the North Korean leader’s exiled half-brother in Kuala Lumpur.
About 118 Rohingya Muslims died in Malaysian refugee camps in 2 years

Mar 30, 2017 08:27

More than 115 refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, have lost their lives due to various diseases and other, unknown causes in Malaysia’s refugee detention centers over the past two years, authorities with a government-funded rights body say.
Malaysia says thwarted attack on Arab royalty ahead of Saudi king visit

Mar 07, 2017 08:05

Malaysia says it had foiled a planned attack on “Arab loyalties” ahead of a visit by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to the Southeast Asian country late last month.
N Korea expels Malaysian ambassador in tit-for-tat move

Mar 06, 2017 17:10

North Korea has labelled the Malaysian ambassador to Pyongyang as “persona non grata” and ordered him to leave the country “within 48 hours,” in an apparent tit-for-tat move after the Southeast Asian nation expelled the North’s top envoy in an unprecedented diplomatic row, which broke out between the two sides over the recent bizarre assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Kuala Lumpur.