Malaysia News

Malaysia prince wins defamation suit against wife

AP - Thursday, November 5

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian prince won a defamation suit Thursday against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after she fled back home to Indonesia. More »

  • Malaysia rescues 59 pythons from dinner table: official

    Malaysia rescues 59 pythons from dinner table: official

    AFP - Thursday, November 5

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued 59 pythons from being skinned and sold to restaurants and leather dealers, an official said Thursday.

  • Malaysian charged with killing wife in acid attack

    AP - Thursday, November 5

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Prosecutors charged a Malaysian with killing his wife and blinding his teenage daughter by splashing acid on them while they were sleeping, a lawyer said Thursday.

  • Malaysia's opposition alliance puts house in order

    AP - Thursday, November 5

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's three key opposition parties moved to formalize their coalition despite ideological differences by officially registering their alliance, senior officials said Wednesday.

  • Ex-minister mired in Malaysian financial scandal

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - One of Malaysia's former transport ministers and a top port executive may have both committed fraud, contributing to a series of missteps that plunged a government-backed industrial project into a billion-dollar debt, a parliamentary watchdog said Wednesday.

  • Malaysia rejects call to release 10,000 Bibles

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The Malaysian government has refused to release 10,000 Bibles confiscated for using the word "Allah" to refer to God, a banned translation in Christian texts in this Muslim-majority country, an official said Wednesday.

  • Malaysian lawmaker, 5 others charged with graft

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian government lawmaker and five other politically linked people were charged Tuesday with corruption in unrelated cases, hitting both the ruling coalition and opposition alike.

  • Indonesian maid jailed for poisoning employer

    Indonesian maid jailed for poisoning employer

    AFP - Tuesday, November 3

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - An Indonesian maid has been sentenced to six years in jail for attempting to murder her elderly Malaysian employer by putting weedkiller in her coffee and soup, reports said Tuesday.

  • Malaysia state helps jaded couples beat the blues

    AP - Tuesday, November 3

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian state government fretting about rising divorces said Monday it will offer classes on romance to help Muslim couples stay together _ even encourage them to bathe together to promote intimacy.

  • Iran says UN-backed nuclear deal is not dead

    AP - Monday, November 2

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Iran said Monday it has not rejected a U.N.-backed plan aimed at limiting the country's ability to make nuclear weapons as it called for a technical panel to review its terms.

  • Iran calls for panel to review nuclear deal

    AP - Monday, November 2

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Iran said Monday it wants a technical panel to review a U.N.-backed plan that envisages sending most of its uranium stockpile to Russia for enrichment, limiting the country's ability to make a nuclear weapon.

  • Pakistan hopes to rout Taliban by late December

    AP - Monday, November 2

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Pakistan's armed forces hope to rout Taliban militants in the rugged mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan before winter sets in by late December, the country's foreign minister said Sunday.

  • Malaysian charged with killing of Indonesian maid

    AP - Saturday, October 31

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Government prosecutors charged a Malaysian man Friday with allegedly killing his Indonesian housemaid, who died after being found beaten and locked in a bathroom.

  • Malaysia's Islamic opposition ends factional feud

    AP - Friday, October 30

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's Islamic opposition party firmly shut the door Thursday on any attempt to form an alliance with the federal government, ending a leadership spat that had threatened to split the party.

  • 2 girls found dead after Malaysia bridge collapse

    AP - Thursday, October 29

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An official says police have found the bodies of two schoolgirls who fell into a river when the bridge they were walking on collapsed in northern Malaysia earlier this week.

  • Malaysian girl dead after bridge collapse

    Malaysian girl dead after bridge collapse

    AFP - Wednesday, October 28

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - One child died and two others are missing after a bridge collapsed at a campsite in northern Malaysia, sending a group of students plunging into the river below, police said Tuesday.

  • Malaysian girl drowns, 2 others missing in river

    AP - Tuesday, October 27

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A new footbridge across a Malaysian river collapsed while schoolchildren crossed it during a camping trip, killing one girl and leaving two missing and feared drowned in the currents below, officials said Tuesday.

  • Malaysia girl drowns, 2 children missing in river

    AP - Tuesday, October 27

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A new footbridge across a river collapsed while schoolchildren crossed it during a camping trip in Malaysia, killing at least one girl and leaving two missing and feared drowned in the currents below, officials said Tuesday.

  • One dead, two missing in Malaysia bridge collapse

    Reuters - Tuesday, October 27

    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - One child drowned and two others were missing on Tuesday after a group of Malaysian schoolchildren plunged into a river when a suspension bridge they were crossing collapsed on Monday night, according to police.

  • Abused Indonesian maid dies in Malaysia: police

    Abused Indonesian maid dies in Malaysia: police

    AFP - Monday, October 26

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - An Indonesian maid who was allegedly severely beaten by her Malaysian employers, and then bound and locked up in a toilet for two days, has died in hospital, police said Monday.

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