The government of Malaysia announced on Wednesday that it would resume the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which famously went missing over a decade ago, as the Southern Hemisphere approaches the summer months.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday signed an “upgraded” free trade agreement with China.
Chinese state media ran a few victory laps on Sunday and Monday over news that U.S. and Chinese negotiators reached a provisional trade agreement after two days of talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
President Donald Trump told leaders at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Malaysia on Sunday that he is “on a mission of friendship and goodwill and to deepen our ties of commerce” during his trip to Asia this week.
President Donald Trump signed an historic peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand, as well as trade agreements with Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
President Donald Trump met with Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani aboard Air Force One Saturday at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar during refueling on Trump’s voyage to Asia.
President Donald Trump will be conducting high-stakes diplomacy during his trip to Asia next week. Trump will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, followed by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting in South Korea, and possibly a bilateral meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Thursday.
President Donald Trump is set to depart for an action-packed trip to Asia, bookended by meetings with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar bin Ibrahim on Sunday and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday.
The governments of Thailand and Cambodia, alongside Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, announced on Monday that they had agreed to an immediate ceasefire in an escalating border dispute that displaced over 100,000 people in less than a week.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, their first meeting in person since Rubio took office.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced new tariff rates for South Africa, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, posting letters to the leaders of each country on his Truth Social account.
A flourishing industry of “origin washing” services has appeared on Chinese social media, offering to help export companies evade U.S. tariffs by pretending their products were shipped from other Asian countries like Vietnam and Thailand.
Singapore police arrested three people on Thursday for allegedly smuggling chips from American tech giant Nvidia to China, throwing a spotlight on China’s efforts to obtain advanced components in defiance of export restrictions – and showing just how diligently American companies are working to enforce those restrictions.
The government of Malaysia announced on Friday that it had tentatively agreed to a deal with an American research organization to launch a new search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), which vanished in March 2014 and has not been found.
Police in Malaysia raided twenty Islamic charity homes on Wednesday, making 171 arrests and rescuing 402 children from alleged neglect, molestation, and sexual abuse.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday rebuffed efforts by China to bully Malaysia away from oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea. Anwar’s government is investigating a leaked Chinese diplomatic note that accused Malaysia of violating Chinese sovereignty by working near the oil-rich Luconia Shoals.
The Indian state of Kerala issued a health alert on Monday after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. Over a hundred other residents in the area have been identified as high-risk potential patients.
A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi.
The Malaysian government has banned all Israeli-owned and -flagged ships from docking to show support for Hamas in the Gaza war.
A 45-year-old man was charged Tuesday with threatening to blow up a plane during a flight from Australia to Malaysia that returned to Sydney.
The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) announced Saturday it has cut all ties with PT Capella Swastika Karya, the beauty products company that runs the Indonesian Miss Universe Pageant, due to allegations of sexual harassment against contestants.
A vegan influencer who lived entirely on a diet of exotic fruit, juices, and sunflower seeds while living in Malaysia has reportedly “died of starvation and exhaustion.”
Malaysia’s government Saturday cut short a music festival after the lead singer of British band The 1975 slammed the country’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate during their performance.
Malaysia said on Tuesday authorities were questioning the crew of a Chinese vessel detained on suspicion of looting World War II shipwrecks.
Malaysia’s maritime agency said Monday it found a cannon shell believed to be from World War II on a Chinese-registered vessel.
Swatch, the Swiss company famous for its colorful variety of designer watches, announced on Tuesday that Malaysian authorities raided its stores in 11 shopping malls across the country and confiscated 164 rainbow flag watches from its “Pride Collection” because they “bore LGBT connections.”
A founding member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees was enmeshed in political conspiracies involving millions of dollars in foreign money under two different U.S. presidents, federal prosecutors said as his trial got underway with opening statements.
The Malaysian television network TV3 is facing days of ongoing condemnation at home after censoring the bodies of Hollywood actresses Jessica Chastain and Halle Berry during a news report on Everything Everywhere All at Once star Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Malaysian to win an Oscar.
The occupied region of Tibet is less free than communist North Korea, and the Asia-Pacific region generally is among the most repressed in the world, where only five percent of people live in free countries, the international organization Freedom House revealed on Thursday.
Malaysia’s Islamic religious police on Saturday night raided a large Halloween party in Kuala Lumpur attended by LGBT activists, arresting 18 of the thousand or so participants for offenses against Muslim sharia law including cross-dressing and indecent behavior.
French authorities have arrested a beekeeper allegedly using profits from honey sales to finance terror groups in Syria.
The Foreign Ministry of Indonesia issued remarks on Thursday insisting it was not offended that no American government officials greeted President Joko Widodo upon his arrival in Washington on Tuesday.
Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.
The land border separating Singapore from Malaysia — one of the busiest in the world — reopened to fully vaccinated travelers on Friday after a two-year-long closure due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported, noting the event prompted “thousands” of people to travel between the Southeast Asian nations earlier that day.
Muslims across the globe prepared for the start of Ramadan — a month-long holiday during which adherents of Islam participate in a fast from dawn to sunset — on Friday. Islamic faithful observe Ramadan annually as it serves as one of
The South Korean tech company Samsung recently pulled an online advertisement showing a hijabi Muslim woman supporting her drag queen son after intense criticism from residents of Singapore, the ad’s target audience, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported on Friday.
Dozens of Malaysians staged a demonstration outside the nation’s parliament building in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday to urge the federal government to drop extreme penalties for Chinese coronavirus violations such as a six-month jail sentence for anyone found guilty of going
President Joe Biden’s Department of Commerce has sided with Chinese solar manufacturers who produce in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, denying a request to investigate the manufacturers for evading United States tariffs on Chinese products.
Malaysian rapper Namewee issued a statement Tuesday supporting “democracy and freedom” in response to the Chinese Communist Party banning him from government-controlled social media, a response to his latest song’s mockery of communist online trolls.
Transgender entrepreneur and social media personality Nur Sajat has fled Malaysia after being charged with “insulting Islam” for wearing a hijab to a prayer session at a new building inauguration.
