The veiled and quiescent annoyance in the relationship between the Philippines and Malaysia over the “Sabah Dispute” has suddenly been rekindled by recent exchanges on Twitter between the two top diplomats of both countries.Just recently, the Philippines Foreign Secretary, Teodoro Locsin Jr.

To date, over 35.7 million people worldwide have been infected with COVID-19. While Southeast Asia accounts for less than 10 percent of the total number of cases reported across the globe, some countries in the region have seen a surge in coronavirus cases in the past few weeks.

Tigers once roamed wild and free across the jungles of the world. As apex predators, life was good.

Malaysian opposition chief Anwar Ibrahim said Wednesday he had "formidable" support from MPs to form a new government, but the prime minister insisted he remained the country's legitimate leader.The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since an alliance that swept to power in 2018, which was headed by Mahathir Mohamad and included Anwar, collapsed in February amid bitter infighting. Muhyiddin Yassin became premier at the head of a coalition backed by a scandal-pl

The coronavirus crisis has resulted in devastating impacts on livelihoods and the world’s economy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that the pandemic is pushing the global economy into its deepest recession in a century. “The Great Lockdown” – as the IMF calls the global downturn – is the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.As it was with other recessions and past financial crises, unemployment tends to rise quickly, and often remains elevated during said tough times.

The Malayan tiger is said to be the national animal of Malaysia. The tiger appears in various heraldry of Malaysian institutions such as the Royal Malaysia Police, Proton – which is Malaysia’s first national car company, its universal bank, Maybank and the Football Association of Malaysia, among others. Even Malaysia’s national football team, the pride of the country, has been given the nickname ‘Harimau Malaya’ (Malayan tigers).

A global hacking collective known as APT41 has been accused by United States (US) authorities of targeting company servers for ransom, compromising government networks and spying on Hong Kong activists.Seven members of the group – including five Chinese nationals – were charged by the US Justice Department on Wednesday.Some experts say they are tied to the Chinese state, while others speculate money was their only motive.

When hundreds of Rohingya refugees paid traffickers to escape their squalid camp in Bangladesh, they were promised a new life in Malaysia after just one week at sea.Instead, the group of mostly women and children suffered more than 200 days of terror on the high seas, until they landed this week on Indonesia's northern coast, where they are now back in refugee tents.Beaten by the traffickers, they battled hunger and thirst as storms lashed their wooden vessel, and watched in horror as th

In recent years, Malaysia’s property market has been resistant in terms of price. It was reported that over the last 30 years, house prices declined between 1998 and 1999 due to the impacts of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Then in 2001, the property market in the country entered into a recovery phase. A few years later the mid-cycle dip took place during 2007 to 2009 because of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Malaysian police insisted Monday there was no indication a French-Irish teenager was kidnapped from a jungle resort, as an inquest began into the girl's death following her disappearance while on holiday.The body of Nora Quoirin, a 15-year-old with learning difficulties, was discovered unclothed last year after a massive hunt through the rainforest but authorities said there was no sign of foul play.However, her parents - who believe there was a criminal element to her death, as they say