Twenty-three people, mostly children, were killed Thursday by a blaze that tore through a Malaysian religious school, trapping them in a dormitory with metal grilles barring its windows.Pupils and teachers inside the Islamic study centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur screamed for help as neighbours looked on helplessly.Many of the bodies of the victims – who included 21 boys mostly in their teens – were found piled on top of one another, indicating there may have been a stampede as the students so

Five sailors were missing after their dredger collided with a tanker off Singapore Wednesday, authorities said, just weeks after a deadly accident in the same area involving a US warship.A search effort was launched for the four Chinese members of crew and one Malaysian after the accident around the busy Singapore Strait, the city-state's MPA (Maritime and Port Authority) said.Seven other Chinese sailors were rescued from the Dominican-registered dredger after it capsized following the c

Malaysia Airlines agreed to buy Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliners and 737 Max jets as the Southeast Asian nation’s flag carrier looks to boost services on its busiest routes.The airline signed a memorandum of understanding for eight of the carbon-composite Dreamliners, and eight 737 Max 8s, Boeing said in an e-mailed statement late Tuesday.

When Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak meets former golf partner Donald Trump in the White House on Tuesday, the elephant in the room will be a US criminal probe of an investment fund linked to Najib.While ties between the countries are solid, there are points of strain for the two leaders. One wrinkle is a Department of Justice investigation into alleged money laundering and embezzlement at state-owned 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Bhd).

The MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) is still investigating the three individuals nabbed over suspected graft involving millions of dollars of an oil and gas exploration and production services firm, Petronas Carigali.

Ten Indonesian pirates who seised an oil tanker off the east coast of the Malay peninsula were arrested by Malaysia's coast guard Thursday, officials said.Commando units were rushed by helicopter to the Thai-flagged tanker, which was carrying RM7 million (1.7 million dollars) worth of diesel, after it vanished off tracking systems on Wednesday afternoon, Malaysian maritime officials said.

Malaysia’s central bank is in a sweet spot.

Possible witnesses to the alleged looting of billions of dollars from 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad) are too scared to talk to US investigators because they fear retaliation, according the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).Some people in "certain foreign countries" already assisting the criminal probe are concerned for their safety, while others say it’s too dangerous to cooperate, according to an FBI request to keep the names of its informants secret from the alleged maste

Malaysia (known as the Federation of Malaya at the time of its independence ) celebrated its first Independence Day when the first Malaysian prime minister Abdul Rahman hailed the word "merdeka" - independence in the Malay language - seven times and read out the 1957 Proclamation of Independence in front of thousands of Malaysians on August 31, 1957.

Malaysia celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from the British Empire on August 31, 2017. For sixty years, this proud Southeast Asian nation has adopted its own currency that is known today as the ringgit. Following the story and the origins of the ringgit, The ASEAN Post met with a Malaysian currency collector in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur - the capital city of Malaysia.