12 Dec 2019
KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE A Vietnamese oil tanker which Reuters reported visited North Korea in February has been seized by Malaysia after it was found adrift off the Malaysian coast, maritime agency officials said.
12 Dec 2019
KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE, Dec 12 A Vietnamese oil
tanker which Reuters reported visited North Korea in February
has been seized by Malaysia after it was found adrift off the
Malaysian coast, maritime agency officials said.
11 Nov 2019
KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian court on Monday ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to present his defense against seven charges in a case linked to a scandal surrounding 1MDB, saying a unit of the state fund had been created "for his own private advantage".
06 Nov 2019
KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian authorities have detained two Cambodian opposition activists while they were waiting to board a flight to Thailand in what is seen as part of a crackdown on exiled dissidents in Southeast Asia, a rights groups said late on Tuesday.
31 Oct 2019
NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR The U.S. Justice Department has struck a deal to recoup $1 billion (£773.10 million) in funds allegedly looted from a Malaysian state investment fund by fugitive financier Jho Low, in a record capture for a U.S. anti-corruption probe.
28 Oct 2019
MANILA/KUALA LUMPUR Southeast Asian countries fighting Islamic State's influence in the region lauded the killing of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi but said security forces were preparing for a long battle to thwart the jihadist group's ideology.
23 Oct 2019
KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak did not know that millions of dollars transferred into his personal accounts came from scandal-linked state fund 1MDB, his lawyers said on Wednesday as prosecutors wrapped up their first case against the ex-premier.
23 Oct 2019
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 Former Malaysian prime
minister Najib Razak did not know that millions of dollars
transferred into his personal accounts came from scandal-linked
state fund 1MDB, his lawyers said on Wednesday as prosecutors
wrapped up their first case against the ex-premier.
22 Oct 2019
KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak acted like an "emperor" who orchestrated massive fraud at a former unit of scandal-linked state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the country's attorney-general said at his trial on Tuesday.
22 Oct 2019
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 Former Malaysian Prime
Minister Najib Razak acted like an "emperor" who orchestrated
massive fraud at a former unit of scandal-linked state fund
1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the country's
attorney-general said at his trial on Tuesday.