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Although three-quarters of migrants surveyed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand said they suffered some type of abuse while leaving their homelands via people-smuggling networks, nearly half said they would do it again, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday.
Ten years have passed since Jacquita Gonzales hugged her husband, Malaysia Airlines flight supervisor Patrick Gomes, before he left their Petaling Jaya home on March 8, 2014.
Malaysian immigration officials on Friday reported separating Rohingya from other detainees after 131 refugees in custody broke out of detention this week and one was struck and killed by a car.
Two Malaysian terror suspects pleaded guilty to murder in the 2002 Bali bombings – Indonesia’s deadliest terrorist attack – as they appeared in a U.S. military court on Tuesday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they have been incarcerated for at least 17 years.
Malaysia’s first crowdfunded feature film, which deals with racial tensions in the multiethnic nation, has become a runaway hit, amassing more than half a million views within a week of its release via social media.
Survivors and families of the victims came together to remember their loved ones a year after dozens of campers were killed in a landslide in Malaysia.
Many urban communities in Malaysia are adding a rural touch.More and more community gardens are popping up as residents look for ways to bring the great outdoors closer to home.
Some victims’ families are saying the report is not credible, days after the Malaysian government published the findings of its investigation into a deadly landslide. They’re calling for a more thorough investigation.
Malaysia’s government has banned a locally made feature film about a Muslim girl who explores other religions’ views on reincarnation after her mother dies, saying it runs “contrary to public interest.”
A Malaysian government project to move children of migrants from detention centers into a so-called child-friendly shelter is inadequate because they remain confined even at the new location, human rights and child welfare activists say.