Malaysia started repatriating approximately 1,500 Myanmar nationals under a voluntary program, defying objections from the United Nations refugee agency and rights groups who warn conditions in Myanmar remain unsafe.
Malaysia started repatriating approximately 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, the first phase of a plan to return 5,000 people to their war-torn homeland. The deportations proceed despite warnings from the UN refugee agency and human rights groups about unsafe conditions in Myanmar, which remains engulfed in civil war.
Indonesia has accepted Malaysia's offer of aircraft and firefighters to combat wildfires in West Kalimantan, even as indigenous and civil-society organizations file a class-action lawsuit against President Prabowo Subianto over his handling of the forest fires.
Anthropic said it shut down multiple cases of state-sponsored surveillance operations using its Claude AI models, including suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage and efforts to develop biological weapons, while also disrupting an election manipulation campaign targeting Malaysia.
Australian data center operator Firmus Technologies signed a multi-year agreement with OpenAI to supply computing capacity from two Malaysian data centers, making ChatGPT maker an anchor customer as the company prepares for an IPO.
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.
