Malaysia has started a manhunt on the alleged brain behind the megafraudezaak around the 1MDB-state fund. The 36-year-old businessman Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, is a former consultant for the Malaysian fund that lost 7.5 billion US dollars.
The police in Malaysia have seized hundreds of boxes of luxury goods and cash-packed suitcases for house searches in homes associated with former Prime Minister Najib Razak.
The Malaysian police have searched the home of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who lost the election this month. Police officers, among other things, took handbags, clothes and other personal belongings, said the politician's lawyer.
The Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was released on Wednesday. The 70-year-old Ibrahim has received amnesty. The new leader of the country had already said that Ibrahim, his former protégé, would be released.
92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia's new prime minister on Thursday. This makes the country the oldest elected leader in the world.
The opposition surprisingly won the elections in Malaysia. The official result shows that the opponents of Prime Minister Najib Razak can count on at least 112 of the 222 seats in parliament. With this, the opposition parties have a parliamentary majority in their hands.
Malaysia's response to fake news? Ten years in prison. Critics say that the legislative proposal of the Malaysian government is an extreme measure to- with the elections approaching- dissenting opinions.
In principle, the German newspaper Bild does not place its own images of topless women anymore. In recent months, the images of these scantily clad women are 'increasingly seen as offensive or denigrating by editors and readers,' the newspaper said Monday.
North Korea is responsible for the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jung-un. That is the judgment of the US Department of State. According to the US, the North Korean regime has committed the murder and used the highly toxic nerve gas VX.
VTM journalist Boudewijn Van Spilbeeck, a familiar face on Flemish television, is now going through life as a woman. That made his employer VTM known Monday night. 'This will happen to many as totally unexpected, but for me and my environment it is not,' Van Spilbeeck said in a personal message. According to Belgian media, the news is a shock to many outsiders, but far less a surprise for his environment.
The ship that is going to search for the disappeared flight MH370 has arrived at the place where Australian researchers think the aircraft has crashed into the Indian Ocean.
A small giant panda was born in a zoo in Malaysia. It is the second young of a bunch of giant pandas that the park has borrowed from China.
An American company will try to solve one of the largest aviation mysteries in history. Malaysia gave the green light on Wednesday to resume the search for the missing aircraft MH370, which disappeared in 2014 with 239 people on board.
The political opposition in Malaysia has found the 92-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad prepared to go for the election campaign. The Malaysians will go to the polls for general elections next summer.
An American company is preparing to resume the search for missing aircraft MH370 from Malaysia Airlines, which disappeared in 2014 with 239 people on board. Ocean Infinity said on Wednesday to send a ship to the possible search area.
Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jung-un, had flasks with the antidote in his shoulder bag when he was poisoned with the nerve gas VX. That came to light during the lawsuit in Malaysia against the two women suspected of the murder.
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The Malaysian priest Lim Ba has been tragically killed by a ritual with a huge wokpan filled with glowing hot steam.
Fifteen to twenty people died on Saturday due to a landslide in Malaysia. Construction workers were buried under debris on a construction site in George Town, the capital of the Malaysian island of Penang. Two bodies are kept, for the lives of the others are feared, report the authorities.
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After days of insecurity, the Malaysian police found an explanation for the mysterious 'baby', with resemblance to a wolf, which caused a lot of panic and left some residents anxious at home.
Malaysia wants to look for the missing device of Malaysia Airlines again. Flight MH370 disappeared more than three years ago in the south of the Indian Ocean, heading to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, with 239 people aboard. The search was stopped earlier this year.
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On a T-shirt of one of two women suspected of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jung-un, traces of the nerve gas were VX. That said a chemist Thursday during the lawsuit in Malaysia against them, the Malaysian newspaper Astro Awani reported.
The two women suspected of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, denied Monday they were guilty. The lawsuit in Malaysia against the 25-year-old Indonesian woman and 28-year-old Vietnamese woman began on Monday.
The police in Malaysia have held seven youth in connection with the deadly school fire of Thursday in the capital Kuala Lumpur. At the fire in the Islamic school, 23 people came, most of them were teenagers.
A fire in an Islamic school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has costed at least 24 people on Thursday.
In spite of special computer systems and trained staff that have to deal with fraud, it is easy to place fake reviews on comparison sites on Zoover and Tripadvisor. That is what the television program Kassa (BNNVARA) reports on Saturday based on own research.
