Malaysia has stepped up efforts to combat graft to maintain investor confidence as a survey showed the country's corruption ranking worsened this year, Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamad said Wednesday.
Islamic authorities charged a popular Muslim scholar Wednesday with delivering an illegal lecture in what critics considered an attempt by conservative clerics to silence one of Malaysia's most progressive preachers.
Malaysia's government has warned a newspaper that its coverage of a fatal police shooting of five ethnic Indian criminal suspects could stir racial tensions and cause the publication to be suspended, the daily's chief executive said.
The government in Muslim-majority Malaysia has barred a Roman Catholic newspaper from publishing a supplement in a language spoken by indigenous people on Borneo island, an official said Friday.
Indonesia's leader requested swift justice Thursday for maids allegedly abused while on the job in Malaysia _ charges that have strained normally amicable relations between the neighbors.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in Malaysia on Wednesday for a visit aimed at smoothing over the latest spats between the neighbours, who have a history of troubled relations.
A Malaysian court on Wednesday temporarily halted the trial of a prominent anti-government blogger accused of sedition because authorities could not track him down.
Malaysia agreed Wednesday to award a multibillion-dollar rail project to a Chinese contractor as part of efforts to bolster business ties with its biggest trading partner amid a visit by China's President Hu Jintao.
Indonesia's president hopes to discuss a new "strategic partnership" with the United States when he meets US President Barack Obama in Singapore on the weekend, an official said Tuesday.
A party official says lawmakers in Malaysia's opposition Islamic party had to pledge they would divorce their spouses if they left the party and joined the ruling coalition.
Malaysia's conservative Islamic party has been criticised over a loyalty oath sworn by some of its legislators who have pledged to divorce their wives if they ever switch parties.
A Japanese woman will appear in a Malaysian court this week to be charged with drug trafficking, and faces the death penalty if convicted, a senior customs official said Sunday.
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.
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 three key opposition parties moved to formalize their coalition despite ideological differences by officially registering their alliance, senior officials said Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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