Tag: Malaysia

Plans fall apart for homesick mother worrying over unpayable debts and children back home

They had risked the perilous sea journey having lost hope of making a better life in Bangladesh refugee camps

Stepson of former prime minister on trial for looting state funds cuts a deal in a saga with more twists than a John Grisham novel

Authorities dust off a forgotten piece of legislation to bring critics to heel, as govt tries to cement grip on power

Malaysian authorities detained about 270 Rohingya refugees from the boat who fled southern Bangladesh in April but were unable to dock

Gov't touts SMEs as backbone of the national economy’, but almost all of them will have to fend for themselves as funding dries up or fails to arrive

Authorities use ruse of screening for coronavirus to raid apartment complexes in Kuala Lumpur for undocumented migrants and prep them for deportation.

The poor and the marginalised were always going to be in the firing line during the coronavirus pandemic.

Millions of migrant workers face uncertainty as employers stop pay and the govt tries to shift responsibility elsewhere

An outwardly ludicrous gaffe by an official department supposedly geared towards championing the rights of women bears the hallmarks of an ominous future