Tag: Malaysia

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday issued a call to action for ASEAN, urging the region to move beyond traditional trade and investment strategies and embrace a future defined by technological collaboration, economic resilience in ASEAN, and sustainable growth. Speaking ...

There will always be border disputes in Asia, and China should not be singled out because of tensions in the South China Sea, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Wednesday. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Anwar said ...

The enrollment of non-Chinese students in Chinese-language schools in Malaysia is reportedly increasing rapidly, partly because employers are increasingly favoring speakers of Mandarin, according to a new report by the Singaporean publication Fulcrum. While numbers aren’t officially recorded, there are indications that this trend is expanding in line ...

Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke called for the development of an integrated pan-Asian high-speed rail network, in order to avoid disruptions of South China Sea shipping. In an interview with South China Morning Post while visiting Hong Kong, Loke said developing ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will visit China next week, Beijing said Friday. The visit will take place from Monday to Thursday, Beijing's foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press briefing. Anwar ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New York on Sunday for a week-long visit to attend the United Nations General Assembly gathering. Wang is scheduled to have talks with other BRICS foreign ministers and will hold a high-level event to promote the Global Development Initiative. 

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took aim at Chinese development financing in developing countries, implicitly accusing Beijing of setting "debt traps." Kishida made the remarks in Brazil on Saturday during a South American tour that is widely seen as an effort to challenge Beijing's growing influence in the ...

Iran sold just $1.2 billion worth of goods to China in the first quarter of the year, according to new China Customs data released this week. That figure, though, is wholly misleading since it does not align with the news that 

A video of a China Coast Guard ship stalking a small Malaysian fishing craft went viral on Tuesday on both Facebook and X. The undated video was purportedly shot within Malaysia's exclusive economic zone near Terumbu Sahap in South Luconia Shoals, ...

The Chinese Communist Party's most senior diplomat, Liu Jianchao, met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday and confirmed that Chinese PM Li Qiang will visit Kuala Lumpur at the end of the year. Liu, who is widely believed to be ...

Attempts to contain China's rise would only fuel its grievances, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim warned in a recent speech in Australia. This sentiment struck a chord with a highly-placed Chinese academic who wrote a commentary on WeChat to put his own proverbial ...

Southeast Asian leaders gathering in Melbourne this week for the Australia-ASEAN summit expressed very different assessments of the threat by China to stability in the Asia-Pacific region. Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. sounded the alarm again during a speech on Monday ...