Forest City, a multi-billion dollar property development near Singapore largely financed by mainland Chinese investors, is facing uncertainty after Malaysia’s prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, publicly condemned sales of its property to foreign investors. In a bid to ward off further inflation of Malaysia’s housing market, the 93-year-old leader said in a news conference on Aug. […]

Independent investigators have issued a statement saying that they’ve found anomalies in the official report on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The so-called Independent Group, which, according to news.com.au, has worked extensively with Australian authorities since MH370’s disappearance in 2014, issued a statement on Aug. 31. Two members of the group, Don Thompson and Richard […]

KUALA LUMPUR—A Malaysian financier wanted for his role in the multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB has said he does not expect to get a fair hearing anywhere and will not present himself to any country where his guilt has been predetermined. Low Taek Jho has been identified by investigators in Malaysia and the United […]

China, an authoritarian regime under one-party rule, is flexing its cyberespionage prowess to meddle in the elections of democratic nations. Monovithya Kem, a Cambodian political activist living in the United States, alerted U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye, after she realized that an email she received—purportedly from a human-rights group expressing sympathy for her father’s jailing in […]

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced the cancellation of two major Chinese state-backed infrastructure projects, valued at a total of about $23 billion, during a press conference on the final day of an official visit to China. Mahathir canceled the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) and the Trans-Sabah Gas Pipeline (TSGP) projects, which were part […]

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia—Two Southeast Asian women on trial for the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader’s half brother were told to begin their defense Thursday, extending the trial for several more months. Indonesia’s Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnam’s Doan Thi Huong, 29, are accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam’s face […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Two Southeast Asian women on trial in Malaysia for the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother could be acquitted Thursday or called to enter their defense in a case that has gripped the world. Indonesia’s Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnam’s Doan Thi Huong, 29, are accused of smearing VX nerve agent […]