Malaysian police said Saturday they have arrested seven people age 11 to 18 in connection with a recent fire at a religious school that killed 23 people. The suspects are being investigated on suspicion of "mischief by fire" and murder over Thursday's fire at the ...
Twenty-four people, mostly teenage boys, were killed Thursday when a blaze tore through a Malaysian religious school, in what officials said was one of the country's worst fire disasters for years. The blaze broke out before dawn in the "tahfiz" — an Islamic religious school ...
President Donald Trump praised Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak for his country's financial investments in U.S. companies during a meeting Tuesday at the White House and thanked him for helping to fight Islamic State militants. Left unsaid by either leader: anything about the massive corruption ...
There are no Muslim Malays in the top echelons of Singapore's army, and few among the senior ranks of its judiciary, but a member of its poorest ethnic minority is set to become the first woman president of the city-state this week. Halimah Yacob, a ...
Fuji Xerox Co.'s Malaysian arm has partnered with a local nongovernmental organization to promote an education outreach program in impoverished communities in the country, as well as elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region. A workbook titled "Reading English Made Easy," prepared by the NGO, MYReaders, and ...
Two fatal collisions involving U.S. destroyers deployed in Asia signal major problems with training, readiness and overwork, a government report warns.
An experimental electric bus system has been introduced in Malaysia's administrative capital to reduce carbon emissions, in a demonstration project sponsored by a Japanese consortium of public and private partners. The system uses a fleet of eight buses capable of running for 30 kilometers on ...
Fukushima Prefecture aims to export 100 tons of rice and 15 tons of peaches to Malaysia by next year, its governor said Wednesday, evidence of fading concern over the safety of food products from the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. "In the aftermath of ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has invited Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to Washington, officials said Thursday, despite a Justice Department investigation into a major corruption scandal that has ensnared the leader. A White House statement said that Trump will welcome Najib to Washington on Sept. ...
A collision between a U.S. warship and an oil tanker near the Straits of Malacca on Monday has shone a light on a territorial dispute that has simmered between neighbours Singapore and Malaysia for nearly 40 years. The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided ...
New evidence released by Australian government agencies on Wednesday may have narrowed the location of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the lead body behind search operations for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, released two reports, one of which concluded ...
The daughter of one of Malaysia's most powerful sultans married her Dutch fiance Monday in a ceremony steeped in centuries of tradition during a day of lavish celebrations. Princess Tunku Tun Aminah Sultan Ibrahim, 31, the only daughter of the Sultan of Johor, tied the ...
