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Speaker unlikely to allow no-confidence motion despite largest party in ruling coalition withdrawing support for government, analyst says.

Angry MPs denounce prime minister for not allowing debates during first session since house was suspended in January.

Heidy Quah Gaik Li’s Facebook post last year described her experience of visiting an immigration detention center.

Citizens and opposition lawmakers fume as government dodges questions, delays explanation.

Monarch’s statement prompts strident calls from lawmakers for PM Muhyiddin Yassin to resign.

Government collects $12M in fines given to foreign workers.

Government postponed last day of special parliamentary session because 11 people had tested COVID-19 positive.

Party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he had presented signed declarations to the king.

Opposition leaders, election watchdog say Muhyiddin Yassin should call special parliament session and hold vote immediately.

The educator sues student for defamation and demands 1 million ringgit in compensation.

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin says he is not worried about vote on Sept. 7.

The easy choice would be to resign, the prime minister tells a national television audience.

Seventeen mothers-to-be died of COVID-19 in June; 15 were unvaccinated, health officials say.

Muhyiddin Yassin informed officials from his party that he intends to step aside.

The king agreed that Muhyiddin Yassin would serve in caretaker role until a successor is named.

The Malay-centric party claims its candidate, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, will be the choice of a majority of MPs.

Audience with monarch may be sign country’s oldest party is set to return to power.

King appoints Ismail Sabri Yaakob, from the ethnic Malay-centric party, as PM, after Muhyiddin Yassin resigned.

Southeast Asian nation successfully test-fires live anti-ship Exocet missiles after May incursion by Chinese planes.

The UMNO veteran, however, has made derogatory comments about ethnic Chinese in the past.

Buses carrying Afghan women were five minutes away from site of suicide bombings at Kabul airport last week.

Encep Nurjaman (also known as Hambali) requests Indonesian lawyer be added to his defense team.

Expansion at airport in southeastern Cox’s Bazar will open up local beach to international tourists, officials say.

Officials blame a Chinese firm that built a waste treatment plant at an industrial estate near Dhaka.

Ansar al-Islam members hacked to death Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in April 2016.

Other awardees are a Filipino environmentalist, a Bangladeshi doctor, an Indonesian media group and a Pakistani anti-poverty worker.

Victor Yeimo fell ill while in a detention cell.

Attack took place at a checkpoint in Basilan, where Islamic militants have been active.

Two-day hearing ends after Indonesian, two Malaysians do not enter pleas to charges tied to 2002, 2003 bombings in Bali and Jakarta.

Police officers killed six in “fabricated buy-bust operations” in February 2020, Department of Justice alleges.