After 9-11, American intellectuals began asking the question: "Why do they hate us?" A better question for today's world would be: "Why don't they tru...
CNN's Dan Rivers reports on efforts to improve biodiversity on palm oil plantations in Malaysia. Palm oil plantations carry a history of controversy...
Pakistan's leaders have long portrayed American attempts to build ties with India as a betrayal. And although this desire for parity is not new, it has never benefited them.
The publication of a single book doesn't guarantee lasting change, of course. But it does demonstrate -- and this is a great leap forward -- that the government is willing to try.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Malaysia said Friday it is considering introducing sex education in schools across the Muslim-majority nation as part of a campa...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A prince took over a northern Malaysian state's throne Monday, allegedly against his bedridden father's wishes in a bit...
On Monday, September 6, the world's most notorious wildlife dealer, Anson Wong of Malaysia, was sentenced to prison after a lock on his suitcase containing legally protected snakes broke on an airport conveyor belt.
I spent this summer in the jungles of Borneo, partaking in a 10-day trek through the northern Malaysian state of Sabah.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The 10 young men have washed corpses according to Islamic rites, cried while counseling unmarried pregnant women and jo...
The Miyako Hybrid Hotel is a new property that transports a little bit of Japan to Southern California and, in doing so, provides a very refreshing getaway from the quotidian.
It is clear that the Anwar Ibrahim trial has been unfair from the start. Every day that it continues is a further blot on the Malaysian judiciary and, in turn, on that democracy.
It is true that most Western media have not taken the accusations against Anwar Ibrahim too seriously. There are three good reasons for this.
Thirty-seven people were arrested without cause on the fiftieth anniversary of Malaysia's Internal Security Act--an Act that, like the Patriot Act here in the US, allows for arrest and detention without trial.
The Pakatan Rakyat government of Selangor, Malaysia created history earlier this month by tabling the nation's first piece of Right to Information legislation in the State Assembly. But the bill has its flaws.
The decades-old campus movement to change Nike's worker treatment policies may finally be gaining traction. In April, the University of Wisconsin was...
The modern splendor of Kuala Lumpur help disguise one of the world's most insidious authoritarian governments. Sadly, this country's appalling human rights record remains buried
Right now, in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, locals are in a David vs. Goliath fight against a 300 MW coal fired power plant. The proposed site for the plant? One of the world's most bio-diverse marine environments.
We can't allow the constant reminders of the damage we have done to our planet overshadow the fact that we still have the chance to prevent the past f...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia banned three works of political cartoons that criticize the government, but one of the artists said Friday he ...
The recent decision to suspend the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam suggests that Hollywood holds a great deal of environmental leadership power.
Today, Joe Biden may have helped push a new "global social contract" on international security and safety a bit further by hosting personally at his private residence a unique lunch with the non-aligned state leaders.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Muslim woman's caning sentence for drinking beer has been commuted unexpectedly, ending a high-profile case that rais...
... A new story about the run-up to 9/11 has emerged--a previously undisclosed, covert C.I.A. effort to recruit a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda a year and...
Malaysia's king urged authorities Monday to take stern action against religious hatemongers amid government efforts to rebuild trust following a dispute over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims.
