Malaysia articles
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Malaysia’s prime minister calls for ‘action’ over Bloomberg casino report
Bangkok, April 29, 2024 – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should retract his call on local private companies to take action against Bloomberg news agency for a report on alleged plans to build a casino complex in a troubled real estate development, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. On Friday, April 26, Anwar referred
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Can Malaysia revive its $100 billion city that has become a ‘ghost town?’
Malaysia is scrambling to save its $100 billion city of the future. Forest City, the brainchild of China’s troubled property giant Country Garden, located in southern Malaysia’s Johor has Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar as one of its major stakeholders. Billed as a paradise with turtles and white-sand beaches, Forest City aimed at housing 700,000 people across 7,000 acres on four reclaimed islands upon completion in 2035. But many years into construction, the joint venture between Country Garden and a...
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Protests in Malaysia over presence at defense show of Western firms supplying weapons to Israel
People gathered in Malaysia's capital Tuesday urge the government to expel “murderous arms dealers” that supply weapons to Israel from a defense exhibition this week. More than 1,300 companies from 60 nations are participating in the Defense Services Asia and a concurrent National Security Asia exhibitions that started Monday in Kuala Lumpur. (AP video by Syawalludin Zain)