The number of people evacuated due to Malaysia’s worst-ever floods jumped to more than 160,000 on Saturday (December 27). The number of people evacuated jumped from 100,000 a day before, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. Northeastern peninsular Malaysia, which is worst affected part of the country, is regularly hit by flooding during the annual “northeast monsoon”, but this year’s rains have been particularly heavy Prime Minister Najib Razak cut short a vacation in the U.S. to tour […]