Malaysian Bar urges its government to immediately cease the ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrants and embark on a comprehensive legalisation programme allowing them to independently apply for regularisation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned again that the country's fight against deeply ingrained corruption is not yet over, and that the

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito resumed his official duties yesterday after three days of treatment for insufficient blood supply to the

Malaysian and Chinese officials are in talks for Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to visit Beijing soon, two sources with knowledge of the

Rescuers in Thailand are no closer to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found pale and weak but otherwise in good health, after nine days lost underground.

A powerful blast tore through a fireworks factory in southern India yesterday, killing nine labourers, police said. The manufacturing unit

India has asked Facebook Inc -owned WhatsApp messenger to take steps to prevent the circulation of false texts and provocative

The project owner of Malaysia's $20 billion East Coast Railway Link has told its main Chinese contractor to suspend work, both

The corruption trial of Malaysia's former premier Najib Razak will help to clean up the image of the UMNO party in the eyes of the

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB, while also ruthlessly muzzling critics, according to current and former government officials.

The Malaysian High Court has granted an interim gag order against the media from discussing merits of the case of Najib Razak.

With news on the mission to rescue a dozen boys and their football coach in a cave in northern Thailand grabbing the nation’s attention, fake news, rumours and dramas are also poisoning the Internet, further burdening the people working in the area.

Rescuers battle intensifying rain to furiously pump water from a cave in Thailand, as officials thrash out plans to extract a young soccer team located by divers after being trapped and incommunicado for 10 days.

Malaysia has frozen more than 400 bank accounts as part of a probe into a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, a task force

UK PM May floats new customs idea

Japanese Emperor Akihito cancelled his public duties after suffering dizziness and nausea due to cerebral anemia, a condition caused by

Indian police yesterday said they have arrested 23 people after five men were bludgeoned to death by a crazed mob in yet another

A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster explodes shortly after liftoff, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space.

A Philippine mayor who paraded suspected drug dealers through the streets of his city is shot dead while attending a weekly flag-raising ceremony for government officials, police say.