In spite of a decrease in official income inequality, the absolute earnings between Malaysia’s top 20 percent and their countrymen has nearly doubled compared with that of two decades ago, The Star newspaper reported.
The Malaysian Government has agreed that cabinet ministers going on short business trips will not allowed to bring their spouses along, a move aimed to cut public expenditure.
Malaysia’s former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim officially returned to political life just five months after he was freed from jail by winning a by-election for a parliamentary seat on October 13.
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke has emphasized the need to amend the country’s Road Transport Act to ensure that drivers responsible for causing deaths are banned from driving for life.
Malaysia has become the first country in the Western Pacific to successfully eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
Malaysia continued its efforts to rein in spending by reducing cost of a multi-billion-dollar mass rapid transit (MRT) project.
The World Bank (WB) has projected Malaysia’s economy to become a high-income country at some point between 2020 and 2024.
Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, has been charged with money laundering in association with the scandal at state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, was arrested on October 3 by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
Malaysian police said on September 28 that up to 93 Chinese citizens and six Malaysians have been detained on suspicion of being involved in swindling money from people in China through a telephone scam.
Vietnam’s U16 football team were knocked out of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U16 Championship after losing 5-0 to Iran in the final match of Group C in Malaysia on September 27.
Malaysian former Prime Minister Najib Razak and fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho are among the 18 witnesses to be called up before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), announced PAC chairman Ronald Kiandee on September 27.
The United Kingdom has expressed to Malaysia its wish to continue cooperating with ASEAN following the country’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit), Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah has said.
Respect-paying and memorial ceremonies for President Tran Dai Quang were organised at the Vietnamese Embassies in Malaysia and Bangladesh, and the Vietnamese Consulate General in Hong Kong, China, on September 26.
Rosmah Mansor, former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s wife, has been questioned by anti-corruption investigators over a corruption probe at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)
Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will seek to return to politics by participating in a local election next month to become a lawmaker.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged on September 20 with money laundering and abuse of power in connection to the case of the state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
The Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said on September 19 that former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been arrested for new corruption charges related to the state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
