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Malaysians Suffering Amid Lockdown Fly White Flag For Help

4:14am July 05, 2021

by The Associated Press

The campaign emerged on social media last week and urges people to hoist a white flag or cloth to signal they needed immediate help. Food retailers and celebrities alike have responded.

Health staff and patients at an exhibition center in Kuala Lumpur that's been turned into Malaysia's first mega-vaccination center. The government aims to speed up inoculations amid a sharp spike in infections.

Malaysia's Recent Surge In COVID Infections Leads To A New Lockdown And New Worries

5:22pm June 04, 2021

by Julie McCarthy

The country had been seen as a success in handling the pandemic, but a recent surge in cases has made it the third-worst affected country in Southeast Asia. Vietnam is also seeing a rise in cases.

Myanmar vessel UMS Moattama, which was sent to return Myanmar migrants from Malaysia, is seen docked at a jetty outside Kuala Lumpur on Monday.

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Myanmar Nationals Deported From Malaysia Despite Outcry From Rights Groups

12:42pm February 23, 2021

by Scott Neuman

Malaysian immigration officials defied a court ordered stay and loaded the migrants onto three navy ships sent by Myanmar's military government to return them.

Malaysia's king suspended the national parliament and state legislatures for an unspecified period of time under the nation's new virus restrictions.

Malaysia's Coronavirus Lockdown Is Not A Coup, Prime Minister Says

1:19pm January 12, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

In his declaration, Malaysia's king suspends the national parliament and state legislatures, delaying the country's general election.

David Solomon, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, shown here at a business roundtable in New York last year, is among several executives at the bank who will have to give back part of their pay.

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Goldman Sachs Executives Will Have To Return Millions In Pay Over Bribery Scandal

4:19pm October 22, 2020

by Jim Zarroli

The blue chip bank will claw back hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from current and former executives over a financial scandal in Malaysia.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (center), wearing a face mask with his supporters, arrives at the courthouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday. Najib was found guilty of corruption in the first of several trials linked to the multibillion-

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Found Guilty Of Looting Sovereign Fund

8:39am July 28, 2020

Najib Razak was found guilty in the first of multiple trials related to the siphoning of billions of dollars from the country's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.

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In this online poster, now removed, Malaysia's Ministry for Women, Family and Community Development advised women working at home to wear makeup and office clothes so as not to offend their husbands.

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Don't Nag Your Husband During Lockdown, Malaysia's Government Advises Women

8:38am April 01, 2020

by Michael Sullivan

An online campaign recommended business attire and makeup while working at home, and to avoid sarcasm when asking for help with housework. The women of Malaysia were not amused.

Leaders of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, (from left) Sam Rainsy, Mu Sochua and Kem Sokha, give speeches in Phnom Penh in 2014. Rainsy and Sochua now live in self-imposed exile outside the country, while Sokha has been jailed since 2017.

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Cambodian Opposition Leaders Say Their Efforts To Return Have Been Thwarted

5:05pm November 07, 2019

by Ashley Westerman

Sam Rainsy of the now-banned Cambodia National Rescue Party was barred from boarding a plane from Paris to Thailand. His deputy was detained in Malaysia. Both risk arrest if they enter Cambodia.

Najib Razak, Malaysia's former prime minister, leaves court in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday — the first day in his trial over charges that he used a slush fund to put millions of dollars into his own accounts.

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Malaysia's Former PM Najib Razak Begins Trial On 1MDB Slush-Fund Charges

11:25am April 03, 2019

by Bill Chappell

It's the first court case for Najib related to broader allegations involving the misuse of billions of dollars. Much of that money was raised by the U.S. bank Goldman Sachs, which also faces charges.

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Doan Thi Huong (center) leaves the court in Shah Alam, Malaysia, on Monday. Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against her.

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Murder Charge Dropped Against Vietnamese Woman In Death Of Kim Jong Un's Half-Brother

7:21pm April 01, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Doan Thi Huong will plead guilty to a lesser charge. All charges against her Indonesian co-defendant, Siti Aisyah, were unexpectedly dropped last month. North Korea very likely ordered the killing.