Sources: ABC CBC
Malaysia says that it will not recognise unilateral sanctions, responding to a proposed US law that would impose sanctions on supporters of Hamas and other Palestinian groups. 2023-11-7
The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023 comes into effect in Malaysia, abolishing the mandatory imposition of the death penalty for the offences of drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, and treason. 2023-07-4
Malaysia reports a record 61 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,309. 2021-05-24
Malaysia reports a record 44 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including one foreign citizen. This subsequently brings the nationwide death toll to 1,866. 2021-05-15
Malaysia reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant when the authorities screen an Indian national at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. 2021-05-2
The government allows more businesses in retail sector and Mosques in most of Malaysia to reopen beginning tomorrow and allows restaurants to resume dine-in service with two people seat on the table despite COVID-19 cases in the country remains high. 2021-02-9
Malaysia reports a single-day record of 2,348 recoveries, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 46,501. 2020-11-25
Malaysian Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof announces that Uyghur refugees in the country will not be extradited back to China, but permitted to use Malaysia as a safe passage to a third country. 2020-09-4
United States President Barack Obama hosts a two-day summit in Rancho Mirage, California with leaders of the ASEAN member states, including democratically-elected Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines and Joko Widodo of Indonesia as well as autocratic rulers such as Hun Sen of Cambodia and Najib Razak of Malaysia. 2016-02-15
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