Malaysia

Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil's warning comes two weeks after he blamed TikTok for failing to remove defamatory or misleading content from its platform.

Anwar Ibrahim's staunchly anti-Israel position is unlikely to impact his government's relations with its closest Western partners.

The summit in Saudi Arabia comes at a time of growing global polarization over the Israel-Hamas war.

The group, which is majority owned by a pension fund for the Malaysian Armed Forces, has been sustaining heavy losses for years.

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.