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Joseph Sipalan
Joseph Sipalan has done extensive reporting of Malaysia, specialising in politics and more recently macro-economics. An alumnus of Reuters and several major Malaysian news organisations.
Joseph Sipalan has done extensive reporting of Malaysia, specialising in politics and more recently macro-economics. An alumnus of Reuters and several major Malaysian news organisations.
Areas of Expertise:
Malaysian politics, economics and foreign relations, Southeast Asian affairsLanguages Spoken:
English, Bahasa Malaysia
A high-level special committee will be formed to ensure sufficient measures are in place to prevent the incident from recurring.
In his post, Zaharudin Muhammad wrote about a hypothetical scenario of Malaysia having its first Chinese prime minister in due course.
Over 86 per cent of Malaysia’s active servicemen, including nearly all of its top officers, are from the country’s Malay-Muslim majority.
The appeal court also admonished the lower court for not throwing out the allegations of embezzling funds earlier.
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Police struggle to calm public anxieties after a string of killings perpetrated by masked assailants.
The three-month-old infant was found with his face pinned under his dead father’s arm.
Malaysians have taken to social media to question the prime minister’s shifting positions on the planned cuts.
Allegations of Chinese chip access via Malaysia highlight the growing costs of staying neutral.
Chinese engineers rented Malaysian data centres packed with high-end Nvidia chips to train their AI model, a newspaper report has alleged.
Thailand, which has 40,000 citizens living in Israel and 300 in Iran, has mobilised military planes to bring them home.
The 28-year-old pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at a hotel in Petaling Jaya.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim insists the controversial move, set for July, will benefit those most in need.
His death, barely a week after 15 students were killed in a bus crash, has led to renewed criticism of Malaysia’s poor safety record.
The new government taxes, aimed at addressing budget deficits, have sparked outrage, with Malaysians concerned that they will ultimately pay more for everything.
Following a spate of accidents, the government will require all heavy vehicles to be fitted with ‘Speed Limitation Devices’ that would cap speeds to 90km/h.
A social media influencer unmasked the ‘dirty group’ after discovering an old picture of herself in her school uniform posted on the page.
MBI Group’s Malaysian founder has been called ‘Jho Lo 2’ because of the sheer scale of his operation.
Taxes of between 5 and 10 per cent will be imposed on ‘discretionary and non-essential’ goods and services from July 1.
The detailed call and internet logs are supplied without any personal identifiers, communications chief insists.
The government claims it’s for a mobile project, but critics cite data security risks.
A court has dismissed Anwar’s immunity application by citing his role as prime minister, saying there is no such constitutional provision.
The body of Johnson-Doyle, who went missing last week in Kuala Lumpur, was identified by his tattoo.
Drivers of unregistered vehicles will not be allowed to leave Malaysia until they have completed the permit process and paid the fine.
Critics are asking why the prime minister is splurging on a mega-project while vital infrastructure crumbles and doctor shortages persist.
The government says the AI-based system will enhance safety, while detractors argue trucks pose a greater threat, as shown by recent accidents.
A new deal with Australian mining giant Lynas could unlock billions for the impoverished state, but only with federal government backing.
The sudden exit of two cabinet ministers has rocked Anwar Ibrahim’s government. Malaysia’s long-ruling Umno could be set to capitalise.
‘Our authorities seem to always make it hard for international acts to come here,’ a dejected Blink says.
Ministers Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad announced their resignations five days after the ruling PKR’s election.
Rafizi Ramli was deputy president of Anwar’s political party but lost the post to the prime minister’s daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar.
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