Anwar, who is attending a Nikkei annual conference in Tokyo, said China is an important neighbour as it grows economically and militarily.
The married man, now aged 33, was sentenced to three years’ jail on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to two charges of engaging in sexual acts with a person under 16 years of age.
Police said the incident allegedly occurred at an outlet in Penang state last week.
The Philippines says it has contingency plans to counter China’s actions including filing a diplomatic protest against Beijing.
Controversial private projects, increase in tourist boat trips near ecologically important mangrove forests have upset conservationists in Hoi An.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he appealed to Hamas leaders to return Israeli hostages in exchange for the prisoners held in the mainly Jewish state.
Claims that the alleged deal was already in place before Duterte’s term are meant to shift the blame to former leader Benigno Aquino III, observers say.
Vice-Admiral Alberto Carlos admits talking to a Chinese military attaché on ways to reduce maritime tensions, but insists he has ‘not compromised’ the country’s territorial integrity.
Indonesia has been mulling controversial legal revisions in recent weeks, including changes to a law that would give the government more power to remove sitting judges.
The girl was sexually abused by her four brothers from 2018 to 2022, when she was eight to 12 years old.
A Chinese think tank says Vietnam has reclaimed more land in the Spratly Islands over the past three years than in the previous 40 years.
Industry experts say the ‘very freak’ turbulence flight SQ321 encountered could have been jet stream, a fast-moving air current caused by large temperature differences.
Photos of the event in Terengganu state’s Lang Tengah Island have gone viral on social media.
The phasing out of diesel subsidies is expected to save Malaysia hundreds of millions of US dollars annually.
Home Minister K. Shanmugam said police have told the organisers that action will be taken if the show proceeds.
‘The seat belt light came on and almost immediately after the turbulence hit, I myself, followed by a large amount of others, were thrown in the air hitting the roof,’ the British tourist said.
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla was in Bali to launch Starlink’s satellite internet services in Indonesia.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim wants 15 per cent of all vehicles on Malaysian roads to be EVs by 2030, but lack of cheaper models could hobble the target.
More than 140 passengers and crew on a relief flight from Bangkok landed in Singapore, while injured fliers and their families remained in the Thai capital.
Broadcom boss Hock Tan is the highest-earning CEO in the US, per a Wall Street Journal analysis. But the Malaysian-born Tan has to fulfil certain criteria to get his full US$162 million pay package.
China’s durian market is showing signs of change, with a drop in price attributed to more supply from Vietnam, a deadly heatwave in major exporter Thailand and a tightening of consumer budgets.