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Malaysia not at risk of collapsing like Sri Lanka: minister

Malaysia is stable and is not at risk of going bankrupt like Sri Lanka, Finance Minister Zafrul Aziz said, citing the International Monetary Fund’s prediction for the economy to expand 5.75% this year as reason for confidence.

Bangkok Post

Malaysia PM vows to protect global assets as sultan heirs claim $15bn award

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob promised legal measures on Tuesday to protect the country's assets worldwide, local media reported, as heirs to a 19th century sultan sought to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award via asset seizures.

Bangkok Post

New sexual harassment bill edges closer to law in Malaysia

The new bill will expand the legal options available to survivors, but activists say it doesn’t go far enough.

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Malaysia seizes elephant tusks, pangolin scales in major bust

Officials say that the $18m seizure of tusks, skulls, horns and scales is their biggest to date.

Al Jazeera

Push for post-Brexit trade deals may threaten UK pledges on deforestation

Government criticised over ‘indefensible’ proposal that could undermine climate efforts while yielding benefit of only £1.38m

The Guardian - UK

Malaysia seizes six tonnes of illegally trafficked animal parts

Malaysian authorities on Monday seized a massive haul of trafficked animal parts, including elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and tiger bones worth around 80 million ringgit ($17.9 million), officials said at a news briefing.

Reuters

The sultan, his family and a $15bn dispute over oil in Malaysia

The heirs to the last ruler of Sulu have seized state-owned energy assets in a lawsuit that dates back to colonial Britain

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Malaysian assets at risk globally as late Sultan's heirs claim $15 billion award

The heirs of a 19th century sultanate are seeking to seize Malaysian government assets around the world in a bid to enforce a $14.9 billion arbitration award they won against the Southeast Asian nation, despite a stay on the case handed by a French court, their lawyers told Reuters.

Reuters

Hat Yai-Padang Besar train resumes after 2 years

Train services have resumed from Hat Yai to the border town of Padang Besar for onward travel into Malaysia after a Covid-linked closure that lasted more than two years.

Bangkok Post

Philippines ends stay of foreign peacekeepers in the south

Foreign peacekeepers credited with helping ease years of bloody fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels have left the southern Philippines after their term ended but talks are underway to allow their possible return

The Independent UK

BSA helpline to fight unlicensed software

Leading global software trade group BSA has launched helplines in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to help businesses in the engineering, infrastructure and construction industries cope with challenges related to software copyright compliance.

Bangkok Post

SRMIST inks pact with Malaysian varsity

The SRM Institute of Science and Technology and Lincoln University, Malaysia, signed an agreement for research and faculty and student exchange programme

The Hindu

Indonesia And Malaysia Emerge As Top Contenders For Investment

Investors are starting to take a second look at Asian countries for investment, with Indonesia and Malaysia emerging as among the most appealing in the region.

Benzinga

Malaysia obtains stay order against $15 billion award to late sultan's heirs

Malaysia said on Wednesday it had obtained a stay order against the enforcement of a French arbitration court ruling ordering the government to pay $14.9 billion to the descendents of a late sultan over a colonial-era land deal.

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Bangkok Post

Indonesia halts sending migrant workers to Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia said on Wednesday it has temporarily stopped sending its citizens to work in Malaysia, including thousands recruited for the plantation sector, citing a breach in a worker recruitment deal signed between the two countries.

Reuters

Indonesia to start chicken exports to Singapore amid shortage

Indonesia will start exporting chicken to Singapore this week, its agriculture ministry said, with the aim to plug an ongoing shortage in the city-state following a ban on exports from key supplier, Malaysia.

ABC News

Thailand's biggest romance scam snagged a chief financial officer and convinced her to steal millions

When Chamanun received a LinkedIn message from an unknown man claiming to be an American doctor, it marked the beginning of a tangled web of lies that would ultimately lead to Chamanun's arrest for stealing $250 million from her employer, and 20 years in prison.

Manchester Evening News

Tampopo's cooking school brings Malaysia to Manchester - meet the woman at the heart of it

Ana Abdullah will be taking on Tampopo's cookery courses and championing Malaysian cuisine

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Ahmedabad police say they foiled cyber attacks against India

AHMEDABAD: City police officers on Friday said they have foiled several attempted cyber attacks by hackers from Indonesia and Malaysia - part of a cyberwar effort against India - to compromise government websites and steal crucial data, ostensibly as revenge for the statements on Prophet Muhammad by former BJP spokesperson…

The Hindu

Malaysia Masters: Prannoy seals semifinal spot, Sindhu once again fails to crack Tai Tzu code

Sindhu's 17th career defeat to the Tokyo Olympics silver medallist is also her seventh straight defeat to the same opponent

The Times of India

Malaysia Masters: HS Prannoy seals semifinal spot, PV Sindhu once again fails to crack Tai Tzu Ying code

KUALA LUMPUR: A fighting HS Prannoy edged out Japan's Kanta Tsuneyama to progress to the semifinals but two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu couldn't find a way to get past her nemesis Tai Tzu Ying at the Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament here on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Ratchanok and mixed pair sail into last 16 of Masters

Ratchanok Intanon and mixed doubles stars Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai advanced to the last 16 of the US$360,000 Malaysia Masters at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Malaysia delivers back-to-back rate hikes to ward off inflation

Malaysia’s central bank on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate for a second straight meeting in a bid to tame inflation and signaled more measures going forward will be gradual.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar job seekers caught in Hat Yai

SONGKHLA: Forty-one illegal migrants from Myanmar were caught on Tuesday as they boarded pickup trucks in Hat Yai district to take them to the southern border with Malaysia, where they had been promised there would be jobs.

360info

The solution to baby dumping is women in power

If Malaysia wants to stop teen pregnancies, it could start by putting more women in parliament.

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