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Malaysia reports a record for the second consecutive day of 32,070 new COVID-19 cases, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 3.33 million.
2022-02-25

Malaysia reports a record 126 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the first time that daily deaths exceeded 100. This thereby brings the nationwide death toll to 2,993.
2021-06-2

Malaysia reports 432 new cases in the last 24 hours, a new record of daily infections since the beginning of the outbreak.
2020-10-5

North Korea temporarily bans all Malaysian nationals (estimated to be at least 11 people including embassy employees) from leaving the country amid a growing dispute between the two countries over the death of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un. Malaysian official Khairy Jamaluddin calls the move "tantamount to taking hostages".
2017-03-7

Malaysia confirms it has suffered its first bombing by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during the previous week raising fears about the spread of influence of the militant group.
2016-07-4

Conservationists report in "Oryx, the International Journal of Conservation" that the Sumatran Rhino is now considered extinct in the wild in Malaysia. No new wild animals have been spotted since 2007, elsewhere fewer than 100 Rhinos remain in the wild.
2015-08-31

Malaysian authorities order a freeze on six accounts associated with alleged payments by development bank 1Malaysia Development Berhad to the Prime Minister Najib Razak.
2015-07-7

Malaysian police arrest parliamentarian Nurul Izzah Anwar for alleged sedition. Izzah is the daughter of former Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
2015-03-16

The ruling National Front coalition in Malaysia win an election in the country's largest state Sarawak.
2011-04-16

At least 26 people are killed and several others are injured when a bus carrying tourists from Thailand overturns in Malaysia.
2010-12-20