
COMMENT | Sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh: A legal dispute?
Task force should not pursue the matter at international legal forums.

Task force should not pursue the matter at international legal forums.


LETTER | Considering China's request to extradite Uighur detainees runs afoul of our commitment.

COMMENT | The use of international courts in the Pulau Batu Puteh dispute should not be seen as a hostile move.

Situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar
The global community has once again transcended into shock by the atrocities currently happening to the Rohingya in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Bangladesh had termed the conduct of the Myanmar Government against the Rohingya as an act of “ethnic cleansing”, a crime against humanity under the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Rome Statute.

“In the early 70s, Malaysia had faced the exodus of Vietnamese boat people into the country and finally they were successfully resettled in third countries with the assistance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).” - Deputy prime minister of Malaysia, High Level Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants 2016

In a news report in the local media recently, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak was reported as reiterating that Malaysia “…will continue to rely on diplomacy and dialogue to peacefully resolve differences and disputes…”

