Malaysians feel the pinch as the ‘shringgit’ returns – and there’s no quick fix for PM Anwar
For the last 20 years, the 75-year-old has diligently arrived at the crack of dawn to set up his stall on the city’s outskirts selling gardening goods.
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Malaysia’s outrage over cultural sensibilities is the new normal in politics
There is a growing tendency among Malaysians to express outrage over things that hurt their cultural sensibilities.
Consumer boycott widens to include Israeli dates as Muslims in Malaysia, Indonesia observe Ramadan
Now Israeli dates, a sweet fruit eaten to break fast during Ramadan, are in the cross hairs of a consumer campaign which is flying across Malaysian and Indonesian chat groups over fears Israeli dates are being sold to unwitting buyers in the Muslim nations.
Flight MH370 10 years on: Malaysians unite in grief to remember the 239 on board missing plane
“I remember 10 years ago after 10 hours in the search for MH370, I was still following the updates on my hospital bed … even as I was getting wheeled into the labour room,” said one Aziza Berahim in a post on Facebook on Friday.
Malaysia opposition MP slammed for linking Chinese villages under Unesco plan to communism
Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming, who is from the multiracial but Chinese-led Democratic Action Party, last year proposed to ask Unesco to recognise the “new villages”, which were set up by the British across several states in the peninsula to contain the spread of communism after World War II.
‘MH370 is not history’: 10 years on, Malaysia seeks to revive Ocean Infinity’s jet search
He made the comment at a Kuala Lumpur memorial event where relatives of those missing made an impassioned appeal to officials to restart the lapsed search for their loved ones, which remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.
A decade after MH370, will the world finally heed Malaysia’s call for real-time tracking of planes?
Key to the difficulty in tracking MH370’s flight path is the fact that the plane’s transponder – responsible for sending regular location updates – was manually switched off just over an hour after taking off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing.
Starbucks Malaysia ‘stands for humanity’ even as Israel boycott weighs on revenue
Businesses in Malaysia seen with links to the US and Israel, including Starbucks and McDonald’s, have been targeted by an extended boycott as local consumers protest the siege on Gaza that the strip’s health authorities say have killed around 30,000 people so far, mostly civilians.