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Nazri Aziz has said that a dozen terrorist attacks on landmarks including the iconic Petronas Twin Towers have been foiled since 1999.

PM pledges to review tough sedition law that critics say has been used to silence dissent as part of reforms to claw back votes.

India today lodged a diplomatic complaint with the United States after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was detained by US airport immigration officials for 90 minutes.

'The next step is to align national legislation with the standards already set,' says lawmaker Rieke Diah Pitaloka.

The alert was issued by the Malaysian Meteorological Department but rescinded about four hours later.

UPDATED 7.45PM A 10-centimetre tsunami wave generated by the first earthquake hit Phang Nga in Thailand.

75 Taiwanese, six Chinese and two Malaysians were held during raids on four bungalows in Serdang on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

A post-mortem reveals that the woman died from acute gastritis and ulcers likely due to lack of food over a long period.

Philippine oil refining giant Petron Corp said today it had taken control of Exxon Mobil’s downstream industries in Malaysia for a total of US$577.3 million.

Malaysia’s CIMB Group Holdings said Monday it had bought some of the Asian assets of Royal Bank of Scotland for RM849.4 million (US$278.4 million).

Indonesia and Malaysia are both struggling to keep fuel prices down and risk facing a backlash from the public if they don't.

Trade between the two countries grew 32.6 percent to US$792.7 million in 2011 from a year earlier, according to Miti.

Though they come in relatively small numbers by global standards, asylum-seekers are a hot political issue in Australia.

A Chinese university student in Singapore has been fined and ordered to perform community service for calling Singaporeans “dogs” in a microblog, local media said today.

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Central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz cited 'a moderation of global growth' in issuing the forecast target.

Maids hired for household chores for RM700 monthly would need to be paid extra if they were asked to perform additional tasks.

A Malaysian militant with a US$5 million US bounty on his head survived a recent Philippine air strike.

A key upgrade is its screen resolution, or Retina display, which Apple says is the sharpest ever on a mobile device.

A busy section of Singapore’s metro system broke down for almost 11 hours tosday, triggering outrage among commuters already hit by a series of disruptions.

The EU, US and Japan join forces against China by taking a so-called "rare earths" trade dispute to the world trade body WTO today.

The Chilean ILO chief, who is 70, is retiring on September 30, 18 months earlier than originally scheduled.

UPDATED 10.58PM The KL-Christchurch-KL route has been impacted by spiralling cost of jet fuel, says its CEO Azran Osman-Rani.

Dominic Jude Christopher Bird, 32, was charged with drug trafficking in a court on Friday and claimed he was mistreated in custody.