KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia's religion minister on Tuesday defended Islamic laws that allow girls under 16 to marry, amid a controversy over two youngsters who were married off to middle-aged men.
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran renewed its demand on Tuesday for France to release an Iranian businessman who is accused by the United States of having purchased sensitive electronic components and exported them to Tehran.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian maritime authorities said Sunday they had picked up 93 members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority who had drifted aboard a boat for 30 days after fleeing their country.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia's 112-year-old colonial landmark the Carcosa Seri Negara has been handed a stay of execution, the hotel's manager said Sunday.
WANT to take part in, or watch, the Singapore National Figure Skating Championships on April 2-3? You will have to head to Sunway Pyramid Ice in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, a distance of more than 300km.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP) - Kenichi Tago became the first Japanese player for nearly half a century to reach the men's singles final at the All-England championships Saturday when he saved a match point to beat Bao Chunlai 18-21, 22-20, 21-17.
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP) - Lee Chong Wei's dream of becoming only the second Malaysian in 44 years to win the men's singles title at the All-England Open moved impressively closer with a brilliantly taken semi-final win.
PERTH, Australia (AFP) - Australian tourism authorities are seeking five foreign couples to take part in what is touted as the world's longest, and most extraordinary, taxi ride.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The iconic Lotus name returns to Formula One at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend, with modest ambitions for this year but big plans to seize a future world championship.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The iconic Lotus name returns to Formula One at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend, with modest ambitions for this year but big plans to seize a future world championship.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama's administration is under pressure from Congress to emphasize labor rights, democratic values and market reforms in talks to forge a trans-Pacific trade deal.
JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Tuesday killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports said.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 (AFP) – A Malaysian sultan has revived calls for a new bridge to be built between Malaysia and Singapore, a report said, after the plan was scrapped in 2006 due to rows between the neighbours. Malaysia ditched plans to replace an ageing causeway linking the countries, saying Singapore's demands for airspace access and sand for reclamation projects in return for its ...
Malaysia's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has lost his final court battle to declare as unlawful his dramatic sacking in 1998, his lawyer says.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has lost his final court battle to declare as unlawful his dramatic sacking in 1998, his lawyer said Monday.
Catholic authorities in Malaysia on Sunday accepted an apology from a Muslim magazine after its writers took part in a Catholic service and allegedly desecrated the communion wafer.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Not long ago, Malaysia Airlines was on life support, forced to sell off its headquarters and firing thousands of staff to avoid bankruptcy, but analysts are now bullish about its prospects.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 7, 2010 (AFP) - Catholic authorities in Malaysia on Sunday accepted an apology from a Muslim magazine after its writers took part in a Catholic service and allegedly desecrated the communion wafer.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior US official will head Sunday on a trip through Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, part of the Obama administration's renewed focus on Southeast Asia.
AFP British boy leaves Pakistan with dad after kidnap - Google ISLAMABAD - Smiling and in high spirits, a five-year-old British boy boarded a flight home from Pakistan on Thursday after being reunited with his overjoyed father following a 12-day kidnapping ordeal.
