Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has said budget 2021 will provide allocations to curb the spread of COVID-19 as the government steps up its battle against the pandemic.
The Immigration Department of Malaysia’s Sabah state agreed to offer one-week visa extension for stranded Chinese nationals due to coronavirus, said its Deputy Chief Minister Christina Liew.
Ten Malaysian fishermen were kidnapped by suspected Islamic State-linked militants off Borneo island on June 18 and were taken to the southern Philippines, local police said.
Malaysian police said on Feb. 21 that they had arrested 11 Malaysians and Filipinos for suspected link to terrorist organisations, including the Abu Sayyaf militant group in the southern Philippines.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone should be on full alert of any threat to national security from the Islamic State (IS) or other extremist groups.
The Appeal Court of Putrajaya city in Malaysia has sentenced to death nine Philippine militants involved in the incursion into Sabah state’s Lahad Datu district in 2013.
Gunmen have abducted two Indonesian fishermen off Malaysia’ eastern Sabah state, where a series of similar kidnappings were allegedly carried out by the Philippine Abu Sayyaf militant group