Malaysia

Malaysian PM: Hong Kong leader should quit

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) -- Malaysia's prime minister said Friday Hong Kong's embattled leader should resign over the city's increasingly…

Malaysia threatens ride-hailing firm Grab with $21 million fine

  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) -- Malaysia's competition watchdog on Thursday threatened to hit Grab with a $21 million fine…

Malaysia, Indonesia shut thousands of schools over forest fires haze

  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) -- Thousands of schools were shuttered across Malaysia and Indonesia Thursday, affecting at least 1.7…

Indonesian haze closes schools, sparks fears for Singapore F1

    by Sam Reeves Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) -- Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires closed…

Indonesia arrests nearly 200 over raging forest fires

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Indonesia has arrested nearly 200 people over vast forest fires ripping across the archipelago, police said…

Frontline fight: Indonesia locked in epic battle against jungle blazes

by Dessy SAGITA PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AFP) -- Working around the clock, thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain smog-belching blazes…

Forest fires destroying vital buffer against climate change

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AFP) -- With fierce blazes raging in jungles from the Amazon to Indonesia, concerns are mounting about the…

Hundreds of schools shut as forest-fire haze blankets SE Asia

  by Junus Nuh Agence France Presse JAMBI, Indonesia (AFP) -- Huge fires are raging across vast swathes of Indonesia's…

Indonesia forest fires surge, stoking global warming fears

by Dessy Sagita Agence France Presse PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AFP) -- The number of blazes in Indonesia's rainforests has jumped sharply,…

‘No suspicion of foul play’ in Franco-Irish teen’s death: Malaysian police

  SEREMBAN, Malaysia (AFP) -- A vulnerable Franco-Irish teen who disappeared from a Malaysian rainforest resort died from internal bleeding…

Dutch tourist killed in Malaysia cave floods, guide missing

  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) -- Flash floods killed a Dutch tourist in a popular cave located in the rugged…

Najib’s former deputy hit with new graft charges in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) -- Malaysia's former deputy premier under scandal-plagued ex-leader Najib Razak was hit with seven fresh corruption…

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