Taking the top spot is Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. In 2011, officials estimated that the assassinated despot, who was in power from 1977 to 2011, stashed away $200 billion in secret bank accounts ...

Pornography is popular in the east coast states of Terengganu and Kelantan, judging from the amount of time spent on a porn streaming website with users in Kuala Terengganu clocking in the most ...

Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow has called for an end to an alleged movement to topple him. However, his predecessor Lim Guan Eng believed that this was a matter that should be discussed ...

When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim tried to play moral guardian by banning alcohol at Chinese school halls, he clearly didn’t expect a full-blown backlash. He thought it would be a quick gesture to ...

This is a very significant and ongoing debate in Malaysian history and politics. The claim that Malaysia is a “secular state” versus an “Islamic state” is central to its national identity. Here is a ...

DAP strongman Lim Guan Eng only emerged number 26 among 30 candidates selected to the party central executive committee (CEC). It is among the lowest rung, the former secretary-general had placed in.

Orang Asli is a collective term (which means original or first peoples in Malay) for some 18 ethnic groups of less than 150,000 in total who are widely regarded as comprising peninsular Malaysia’s ...

In the glittering underbelly of cross-border “collaborations,” where music videos and social media shoots blur the lines between art and excess, Malaysian rapper and provocateur Namewee (real name Wee ...

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officers raided the home of a businessman bearing the title of “Tan Sri” late last night for their investigation on a vehicle fleet supply and management contract, ...

Just north of Singapore, in a public square overlooking the Johor Strait, tourists gather daily to snap photos of what looks from afar like a giant spider. The structure, two crisscrossing arches ...

The Malaysian government’s recent push to ban alcohol at events held in school halls, including those within Chinese vernacular schools (SJKC), has sparked outrage among the Chinese community, who see ...

Malaysia’s higher education system has long been a battleground for debates on equity, meritocracy, and ethnic representation. Despite the official abolition of race-based quotas in 2002, persistent ...