KUALA LUMPUR – A snap general election held amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia will cost approximately RM1.2 billion (S$392.7 million), said Takiyuddin Hassan, Minister in...
Malaysian statesman Mahathir Mohamad’s new political party Pejuang positions itself as a fighter for Malay rights and an enemy of kleptocracy, not against Singapore, said Singaporean...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday (12 August) announced the name of his new political party — Pejuang, a Malay word...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Perak Opposition leader Abdul Aziz Bari on Wednesday (12 August) condemned the state government’s alleged withholding of a proper office in the...
From 17 August onward, the border between Singapore and Malaysia will start seeing more travellers as the Periodic Commuting Arrangement and Reciprocal Green Lane come into...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — The High Court here today (11 August) revised the RM3,000 fine issued by the Magistrate’s Court to a suicide attempt survivor last...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim last week warned against being tied down to ‘obsolete’ race-based politics and stressed the urgent need to address...
PENANG – Ex-finance minister Lim Guan Eng, his wife, and a businesswoman have been slapped with a third charge of money laundering. On Tuesday (11 Aug),...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Democratic Action Party (DAP) secretary-general Lim Guan Eng on Monday (10 August) pleaded not guilty to a charge of abuse of his...
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, 95, said Friday he was setting up a new political party as he seeks to take on the government, months after he quit as premier and his administration collapsed. Mahathir, the world’s...