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In Malaysia, a Beechcraft 390 travelling from Langkawi to Kuala Lumpur crashes into the Guthrie Highway in Elmina, Selangor, killing all eight people on board as well as two people on the ground.
2023-08-17

A landslide hits a campsite on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing 21 people and leaving twelve more missing.
2022-12-16

Malaysia imposes an enhanced movement control order in 34 mukims in Selangor and 14 localities in Kuala Lumpur that would not allow residents to leave their home after 8:00 p.m. except for emergency reasons. The EMCO is in effect until July 16.
2021-07-3

Malaysia deports 1,086 Burmese citizens back to Myanmar, defying an order by the Kuala Lumpur High Court halting their deportation in light of the coup on February 1.
2021-02-23

Malaysia extends their movement control order in Selangor, Johor and Penang as well as the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur until March 4 but eases restrictions in other parts of the country.
2021-02-16

Following a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Malaysia, the federal government announces that Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, and Putrajaya will be put under a Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO). The tightened restrictions will be enforced between October 14 and October 27.
2020-10-12

Pakistan pulls out of an international summit of Muslim nations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, scheduled to start this Thursday. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said it was done after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates expressed concern that the summit was to establish a rival bloc to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
2019-12-18

Tens of thousands of people protest in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down amid an ongoing corruption scandal involving 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
2016-11-19

The governments of Singapore and Malaysia announce plans to build a high-speed rail link between the city-state of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur by 2020.
2013-02-19

More than 30 activists are held in detention in Malaysia ahead of a mass rally in Kuala Lumpur asking for an end to fraud. The government declares the rally "illegal".
2011-06-27