Malaysia

The reason behind Maggie Lindemann’s abrupt disappearance from social media is now known, the US pop singer, who was supposed to be on tour in Asia and had been scheduled to perform in Singapore on June 24, was arrested while she was halfway through her concert in Kuala Lumpur on June 21. She broke her […]

Netizens are up in arms against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and Malaysia’s Religious Affairs Minister Mujahid Yusof Rawa, over their comments regarding China’s ‘internment’ camps where Muslims are ‘imprisoned’. Netizens are sensitive on the widely reported issue of Beijing’s treatment of more than one million ethnic Uighur and other Muslims. While China officially calls these […]

An order for mobile phone users in Thailand’s restive south to submit a photo of themselves for facial recognition purposes is causing uproar from opponents who see it as further curtailing the rights of the Muslim-majority population. But an army spokesman on Wednesday defended the move, saying the facial identification scheme is needed to root […]