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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s central bank governor has resigned, the prime minister said Wednesday, after claims the bank helped the previous regime cover debts linked to a financial scandal by purchasing government land. Muhammad Ibrahim’s days had looked numbered since the new government, which came to power last month after a shock election win, disclosed the purchase made by Bank Negara Malaysia from Najib Razak’s government. Former prime minister Najib, his family and […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia passed a new law Friday that will give police more power to take pre-emptive action against terror suspects in the wake of the country’s deadliest Islamist attacks in years. The bill had been stalled for almost two years as parliament wrangled over details, including how to define terrorism, but a wave of deadly suicide bombings this month hiked pressure on lawmakers to pass the legislation. Police will now be […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysian police said Friday they found cash amounting to almost $30 million in a raid on a luxury apartment as they probed corruption allegations swirling around ousted leader Najib Razak. The money was seized along with 284 boxes containing designer handbags, as well as watches and jewellery from a condominium in Kuala Lumpur, which was raided along with Najib’s home and other sites last week. Najib’s coalition was thrown […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Shootouts across Bangladesh left nine alleged drug dealers dead Thursday, police said, as authorities stepped up a crackdown that now has claimed at least 52 lives in 10 days and drawn criticism from rights groups. The campaign comes as Bangladesh struggles to contain a surging drugs trade, particularly in methamphetamine pills known as “yaba”. However, human rights groups say many of the deaths are the result of extra-judicial killings. Two of […]
by Patrick Lee Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — The search for flight MH370 will end next week, Malaysia’s transport minister said Wednesday, more than four years after the plane disappeared and triggered one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 with 239 people — mostly from China — on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of the jet was found in […]
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AFP) — Scandal-tainted former Malaysian leader Najib Razak arrived Tuesday at the anti-corruption agency for questioning over a massive financial scandal that helped to bring down his long-ruling regime. Najib’s coalition suffered a shock defeat at the May 9 poll, beaten by a reformist alliance led by Mahathir Mohamad, which broke their six-decade stranglehold on power. Mahathir, who first served as premier from 1981-2003 and came out of retirement aged 92 to take […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — “Golden Triangle” countries must address corruption and collaborate more closely to tackle record meth production and the gangs who traffic the drug across Southeast Asia and beyond, the UN said Monday. From Bangkok to Brisbane, authorities are raking in huge hauls of methamphetamine stimulant pills — better known as “yaba” — and the purer, more potent crystallized version known as “ice.” They hail from the “Golden Triangle,” a lawless wedge of […]
PEKAN, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s scandal-tainted former leader Sunday denied he stole public funds and complained of the way he has been treated since he unexpectedly lost power in a stunning election defeat. Striking a defiant tone in the face of a deepening corruption investigation, Najib Razak urged his political party to “fight on” after it was toppled in the May 9 vote by a political coalition that had focused on the allegations against him. […]
BREBES, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 11 people died in Indonesia when a truck carrying sugar smashed into several motorcycles and houses on Sunday, an official said. The truck was heading downhill in the district of Brebes in Central Java province on its way to the capital Jakarta when it failed to break, according to the local disaster agency. It tried to stop by swerving left but instead hit a car, 13 motorbikes, and seven […]
by M. Jegathesan Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysian police searched the home of scandal-tainted former premier Najib Razak on Thursday as the new government probes a massive graft scandal after sweeping to power in historic elections. At least a dozen police vehicles converged on Najib’s family compound in the capital Kuala Lumpur in the early hours, with a number of officers entering the home, an AFP journalist saw. Najib’s lawyer said […]
by Juni Kriswanto Agence France Presse SURABAYA, United States (AFP) — A family of five, including a child, carried out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Indonesia’s second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, a day after a deadly wave of attacks on churches staged by another family. The spate of bombings has rocked Indonesia, with the Islamic State group claiming both the church and police station attacks, raising fears about its influence […]
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AFP) — Four militants on motorcycles blew themselves up at a police headquarters in Indonesia’s second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, wounding at least 10 people including officers a day after a deadly wave of suicide bombings hit churches. A young girl who was with the group survived the attack, police said as they revised their initial report that two suicide bombers had participated. “There were four perpetrators riding two motorcycles who have […]
