Malaysian government spokesman Fahmi Fadzil announced that Malaysia will not proceed with plans to repatriate 5,000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar if screening determines they face persecution or threats to their lives upon return. The statement comes amid criticism from human rights groups over the planned forced return.
Malaysia has directed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to temporarily halt refugee registrations while the government restructures implementation of its domestic Refugee Registration Document (DPP) programme. UNHCR said about 215,600 refugees and asylum-seekers were registered with it in Malaysia at the end of February 2026.
Malaysia's communications regulator has started enforcing new rules barring children under 16 from registering social media accounts, joining a growing global movement to protect minors from harmful online content.
A massive fire tore through a coastal 'water village' in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island, destroying around 1,000 homes and displacing over 9,000 people, many of them among the country's poorest residents including indigenous and stateless populations.
A Malaysian court granted an arrest warrant for two sons of former finance minister Daim Zainuddin after they failed to comply with repeated requests from anti-corruption officials in an ongoing corruption probe.
Asnida Daim, daughter of Malaysia's late former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, was charged in Kuala Lumpur court over allegations she failed to declare shareholdings to anti-corruption investigators as part of the government's 'Op Godfather' probe.
