The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN has agreed that an election in Myanmar was not a priority and is urging the country's ruling junta to adhere to its peace commitments instead, Malaysia's foreign minister said on Friday.

An Indonesian couple was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by the Sessions Court here today after pleading guilty to entering Malaysia illegally.

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia’s prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020, resembles other statesmen he hobnobbed with back in the 1980s—such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew and Deng Xiaoping.

Malaysia packages a tenth of the world’s semiconductors, with the US its third-largest market for chip exports. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Malaysia's central bank cut interest rates for the first time in five years on Wednesday, as global trade uncertainties threaten the export-oriented economy, raising the prospect it may lower borrowing costs again this year to shield the economy.

Malaysia’s central bank has finally joined its rate-cutting peers, lowering its benchmark interest rate for the first time in five years to support the economy.

Nick Adams, a self-described 'alpha male' and former Liberal Party member, is Trump's pick for US envoy to Malaysia, sparking controversy.