Lawyers for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial for sodomy, asked that the charge be dropped on Monday following allegations that a member of the prosecution team had an affair with their client's accuser.

A Malaysian state is considering establishing a school for pregnant teenagers, to curb an alarming epidemic of "baby dumping", a report said on Monday.

Two men, including an Indian national, were caught at Singapore’s woodlands checkpoint while they were trying to leave the country illegally to Malaysia hidden inside the speakers of a car.

Malaysia has banned a book and two comics by a political cartoonist that were critical of the government, saying they were “undesirable” and could incite people to revolt.

An Indian national working as a waiter here was shot dead in full view of football fans gathered at a restaurant to watch the opening match of Fifa World Cup 2010.

Two Malaysian princes reached an out-of-court settlement on Wednesday to end a spat over who had the right to use a Bentley luxury car owned by their father, a lawyer said.

A Malaysian minister defended an Indian company’s plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying on Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans.

An NGO in Malaysia has opened the country’s first “baby hatch” for rescuing unwanted newborns, reports said on Sunday, as authorities battle increasing cases of abandoned babies.

A rampant China underlined their dominance of world badminton on Sunday by pounding Indonesia 3-0 to emphatically win a fourth consecutive Thomas Cup title.

South Korea made history on Saturday by ending China’s 12-year stranglehold on the Uber Cup with a 3-1 victory that saw China’s world number one Wang Yihan sensationally lose in straight sets.