Malaysia News

Malaysia calls on Myanmar to free Suu Kyi ahead of polls

AFP - Wednesday, February 10

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - Malaysia Tuesday called on military-run Myanmar to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of national elections it expects to be held around October. More »

  • Malaysia opposition loses fight in state putsch

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's top court Tuesday rejected the opposition's bid to regain control of a key northern state in a dispute with the federal government, handing another blow to the coalition as its leader fights sodomy charges.

  • Malaysia's Anwar seeks to remove sodomy case judge

    AFP - Monday, February 8

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim moved Monday to have the judge in his sodomy trial disqualified, complaining he had refused to rein in biased media coverage.

  • Malaysia: Anwar wants sodomy trial judge removed

    AP - Monday, February 8

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The sodomy trial of a Malaysian opposition leader who claims he is a victim of political persecution was temporarily halted Monday after he called for the removal of the presiding judge.

  • Prehistoric human bones found in Malaysia: reports

    AFP - Monday, February 8

    KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysian researchers believe they have discovered a new set of prehistoric human bones in a cave near the largest man-make lake in Southeast Asia, newspapers reported on Sunday.

  • Reports: Malaysia finds drugs in Iranians' luggage

    AP - Sunday, February 7

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Three Iranians were detained at Malaysia's main airport after $4 million worth of illegal drugs were found in their luggage, in the nation's biggest drug haul in three years, reports said Sunday.

  • Three Iranians arrested in Malaysia for drug smuggling

    AFP - Sunday, February 7

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - Three Iranians have been arrested attempting to smuggle drugs worth nearly four million dollars into Malaysia, where trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence, a customs official said Sunday.

  • Malaysia's missing jet engines 'found in Uruguay'

    AFP - Saturday, February 6

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - Two missing US-made fighter jet engines, worth 29 million dollars and stolen from a Malaysian military airbase, have been traced to Uruguay, a report said Saturday.

  • 3 charged over Malaysia Muslim prayer room attacks

    AP - Friday, February 5

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian court has charged three teenagers with trying to torch Muslim prayer rooms after attacks on churches in a dispute over the use of the word "Allah" in the Muslim-majority country, an official said Friday.

  • Malaysia says military staff leaked to embassy: reports

    AFP - Friday, February 5

    KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysia's defence minister reportedly said Thursday that military personnel had been paid to leak security information to a foreign embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

  • Lurid evidence in Malaysia opposition leader trial

    AP - Friday, February 5

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The court in the politically charged sodomy trial of Malaysia's opposition leader on Thursday visited the apartment where a former aide says Anwar Ibrahim coerced him into sex _ a charge the defendant says is part of a high-level conspiracy.

  • Lurid testimony at Anwar trial closed to public

    AP - Thursday, February 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - More lurid sex allegations were heard behind closed doors Thursday at the sodomy trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who says the charges are a government conspiracy to stop him from seizing power.

  • 2 charged with Indonesia maid's murder in Malaysia

    AP - Thursday, February 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian court has charged a woman and her son with killing their Indonesian housemaid, a judge said Thursday, in the country's latest case of alleged abuse against foreign workers.

  • Malaysian police probe PM's aide over race remarks

    AFP - Thursday, February 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysian police said Wednesday they are investigating a senior aide of Prime Minister Najib Razak for sedition, after he allegedly made derogatory comments about the nation's minorities.

  • Malaysia's Anwar pleads not guilty to sodomy

    AFP - Thursday, February 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to sodomy charges, saying they were concocted as part of a political conspiracy.

  • Malaysian prosecutors say Anwar DNA found in tests

    AFP - Thursday, February 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3, 2010 (AFP) - Prosecutors in Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial said Wednesday that traces of his semen were found in medical tests on the young man making the allegations.

  • Malaysia's Anwar pleads not guilty to sodomy charge

    Reuters - Thursday, February 4

    By Razak Ahmad and Soo Ai Peng

  • Malaysia: Anwar faces explicit claims in trial

    AP - Thursday, February 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A court trying Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy heard explicit details from his accuser Wednesday after the Malaysian opposition leader denied the charge that he had illicit sexual relations with a male aide.

  • Aide to Malaysian PM to quit over race remarks

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An aide to Malaysia's prime minister plans to resign after allegedly calling ethnic Indian and Chinese citizens "immigrants" in an embarrassment for the government's faltering campaign to promote harmony in this multiracial country.

  • Malaysia charges four more over church attacks: police

    AFP - Wednesday, February 3

    KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysian police said on Tuesday they had charged four men with attempting to set two churches and a school ablaze, after a spate of attacks on places of worship that have heightened ethnic tension.

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