The 9th World Urban Forum (WUF9) is underway in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, and, on the first day, there were impassioned debates in the Women’s Assembly and an assembly focused on young […]
The Malaysian government has agreed to pay the American private seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity up to $70 million if it finds the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH370 within ninety days of […]
The Malaysian government has accepted a “no cure, no fee” offer by the American private seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity to conduct a new search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. […]
The Malaysian government has chosen an American private seabed exploration firm, Ocean Infinity, to resume the search for MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. It is […]
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) today released its final report on the search in the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, and said the disappearance of the […]
A judge at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Canada has ruled that a financial disclosure case related to alleged money laundering by relatives of the former chief minister and current […]
Hundreds of women marched in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday (Sunday) in protest against the country’s “toxic politics”. They dressed in purple, the colour worn by the suffragettes and other women’s […]
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has just released two reports that are being taken as an indication that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have gone down in an area […]
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) released its 2016 annual report today (Tuesday) and pinpointed the continued violation of indigenous people’s human rights. It also called for an urgent review of […]
The Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund (BMF)¹ today (Wednesday) released a report in which it states that relatives of the former chief minister and current governor of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Abdul […]
The Malaysian government has released a new interim statement on the third anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people […]
Next of kin of the passengers and crew who were on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 when it disappeared nearly three years ago held a remembrance day event in Kuala Lumpur yesterday […]
In a pivotal judgement, Malaysia’s Federal Court has ruled that the Native Customary Rights (NCR) of the indigenous Dayak people apply only to a limited area of farmland and not to the […]
Malaysian judges refuse to review Anwar case Malaysia’s federal court has rejected an application by the jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to have his case reviewed. The panel of five judges ruled […]
The freed Malaysian civil rights activist Maria Chin Abdullah received a rapturous welcome when she arrived at Kuala Lumpur’s Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) last night. Even pouring rain could not dampen the […]
Malaysian civil rights activist Maria Chin Abdullah has been released. Maria Chin, who is the chairwoman of the Bersih 2.0 Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, was arrested on November 18, the […]
Hundreds of Malaysians are taking part in vigils for the civil rights activist Maria Chin, who is still being held under terrorism legislation and is spending her ninth night in detention. The […]
The Malaysian activist Maria Chin Abdullah, who is being held under legislation intended to be used against terrorists, is spending her seventh night in detention. The civil rights leader is being held […]
The leading Malaysian activist Maria Chin Abdullah is being held in solitary confinement in a windowless cell in an undisclosed detention centre. She has only a wooden board to sleep on, and […]
Tens of thousands of Malaysians braved threats of arrest and menaces from the pro-government Red Shirts and came out onto the streets of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday (Saturday) to demand fair […]
