Malaysia Morning News For November 1

Malaysian data breach sees 46 million phone numbers leaked A massive data breach has seen the customer data of more than 46 million mobile subscribers in Malaysia leaked on to the dark web. — BBC […]

Malaysian data breach sees 46 million phone numbers leaked A massive data breach has seen the customer data of more than 46 million mobile subscribers in Malaysia leaked on to the dark web. — BBC […]

Cambodia clampdown threatens Chinese interests Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, claimed in an interview last year that the Chinese state-owned tabloid often says what party officials secretly think. “They can’t speak willfully, but […]

Malaysia making progress to reduce debt : MARC Malaysian Rating Corporation Bhd (MARC) does not expect Malaysia’s national budget to be balanced by 2020, based on the current trend. — New Strait Times Najib: Malaysia […]

Government proposes $6B budget for 2018 The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a national budget for next year that calls for more than $6 billion in spending, the largest increase ever proposed for the […]

Economist calls for rebalancing of expenditures in Budget 2018 The executive director of the Socio-Economic Research Centre has urged the government to tackle the apparent imbalance between the country’s operating and development expenditures in Budget […]

6th ABNE Brings Cambodia’s Asian Business Leaders Together (HD video, Gallery) The biannual Asian Business Networking Event (ABNE) has become somewhat of a tradition in Phnom Penh and one that is awaited for with great […]

Malaysia eyes Hyderabad airport to tap on tourism prospects Malaysian Tourism, which has seen 6.35 lakh tourists from various places across India, now wants to attain the one million mark soon, making use of the […]

Cambodian opposition member pardoned at PM’s request PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A senator from Cambodia’s main opposition party was pardoned on Wednesday from the seven-year jail sentence he had been given over a Facebook posting, […]

UPDATE 1-Japan’s JERA signs three-year LNG purchase contract with Malaysia JERA Co, Japan’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyer, said on Wednesday it signed a three-year LNG purchase agreement with a subsidiary of Malaysian state […]

Analysts say government use of Fresh News fits the authoritarian playbook Once heralded as a force for democratisation, online media is often now used by authoritarian regimes around the world to serve their interests – […]

Malaysian companies to invest US$1.5b in China real estate Some 20 Malaysian companies are expected to snap up real estate in China totalling up to RM6.3 billion in value during a property promotion event to […]

Criticism mounts as Cambodia government moves closer to dissolving opposition More than 50 rights groups called on chairs of the Paris Peace Agreement to reconvene to ensure that the “democratic vision for Cambodia outlined in […]