Malaysia

Malaysia's highest Islamic body brands Halloween celebrations are Haram and against Shariah values.

Household debt as a share of GDP was at 87% for Malaysia, and 82% for Thailand, at the end of 2013.

Suspects, include men and women, planning to head to Iraq and Syria via Turkey.

Hunt on for vessel sailing from Singapore to Quang Tri port in Vietnam.

Rating agency says while hike in administered fuel prices is credit positive, Malaysia needs to do more.

Massive hunt on for Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) gunship CB204.

Fitch sees Philippines and Malaysia as safe and Mongolia vulnerable.

Could it mean further rate hikes by the Bank Negara Malaysia?

Incidents on the national carrier's flights continue as plane returns after hour in the air.

A local newspaper had earlier reported that Jala and Jamaludin Ibrahim, CEO of telecoms firm Axiata, are likely candidates for top post at airline.

Malaysia's ringgit soars as second quarter GDP numbers surprise on higher side.

Fears are growing that radicalised locals may stage attacks on home soil in Asia countries.

Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger were fourth-year medical students at The Newcastle University.

Train carrying about 200 body bags arrives in Kharkiv, from where they will be taken to Netherlands.

Thean Y Nang, who predicted the 9/11 attacks, foresaw severe disasters globally and in Malaysia during 2014

Bristol born Ben Pocock is second student to have perished in crash.

Magpies to wear black armbands in remembrance during New Zealand tour

USD/MYR rises to as high as 3.1953 from Thursday's close of 3.1770.

IB Times UK covers the reaction to the alleged shooting down of Malaysia Airlines passenger plane with 295 passengers aboard over eastern Ukraine.

A Malaysian airliner with 295 people on board was shot down over Ukrainian airspace with a ground-to-air missile, according to a Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser.

Beijing steps up rhetoric after US criticised its provocative and unilateral behaviour in region.

About 97 Indonesian nationals believed to be on board stricken boat.

Mother in Malaysia who flogged a man who she claims raped her young daughter faces arrest.

Reports say Malaysian teenager may have been assaulted by up to 38 men.

Increase in hijacking incidents in the Malacca Strait, a route for about a quarter of the world's seaborne oil trade, has fuelled fears piracy could be on rise.

Worried friends and family of turtle refuge volunteer call on authorities to step up search efforts.

Underwater vehicle Bluefin-21 finishes surveying sea floor in India Ocean's search zone and finds nothing related to MH370.

AirAsia India received permit from Indian regulator to start commercial operations.

Armed assailants raided tanker before pumping millions of litres of diesel and taking three crew hostage.

Search for missing plane hampered by remote location, storms, currents, false alarms and 20,000ft deep ocean.