Sources: Jakarta Post
Malaysian law minister Wan Junaidi announces that mandatory capital punishment will be abolished in the country. 2022-06-10
Malaysia reports 1,755 new infections in the past 24 hours, its single-day record since the pandemic began, bringing the cumulative nationwide total to 38,189 cases. 2020-11-6
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is banned from leaving the country due to the ongoing investigation into the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. He subsequently resigns as president of UMNO and as head of the BN coalition. 2018-05-12
A fire at an Islamic boarding school for boys kills 24 people, most of them students, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2017-09-14
A fire breaks out in the ICU ward and Maternity ward of Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor, Malaysia, killing six patients and injured two others. All of the patients killed were dependent on ventilators in the ICU ward. 2016-10-25
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant urges its supporters in Indonesia and Malaysia to go to the Philippines and fight against newly-elected president Rodrigo Duterte. 2016-06-25
One person is killed and six are missing after a landslide in eastern Malaysia. 2011-08-7
Both houses of the Parliament of Australia vote to condemn a proposal to send asylum seekers to Malaysia. 2011-06-16
12 people die and 73 are injured when two express buses, a van and three cars collide at Km 223, Plus Highway near the Simpang Ampat toll in Negri Sembilan, Malaysia. 2010-10-10