Malaysia

Kean Wong is under investigation for sedition, for including a caricature of Malaysia's national coat of arms on the cover of the 2020 publication.

While many Western leaders have expressed support for Israel, the balance of both public and elite opinion in Muslim-majority Southeast Asia is very much on the opposite side.

The Chinese-owned short video app has hit a number of recent roadblocks in its bid to expand its Southeast Asian operations.

ASEAN's current regional mechanisms have seemingly done little to prevent the deterioration of the region's air quality over the past two decades.

This year has seen the worst air pollution since 2019, due to the effects of the El Nino weather pattern.

The Malaysian prime minister is hoping that by tackling one challenge – corruption – he can make inroads into the other two.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is using the same repressive tools against his opponents that were used against his party during its years in opposition.

The decision comes less than two weeks after the dropping of corruption charges against an ally for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

As with similar recent restrictions in Indonesia, the goal is to stimulate the development of a domestic processing industry.

The defection has deprived Anwar Ibrahim's government of its two-thirds parliamentary majority in Parliament.

The dismissal of the case against Deputy PM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has again called into question Anwar's anti-corruption credentials.

In addition to alienating foreign acts from Malaysia, the band’s controversial performance failed to elevate the conversation on LGBTQ rights in the country beyond "white saviorism."