Tag: Malaysia

• Wednesday, February 8th 2023 - 19:55 UTC

  British business sizes up global trade wins as Malaysia and Chile join Indo-Pacific bloc

  

  Malaysia and Chile have officially joined the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), meaning British businesses will get better access and lower tariffs in the Malaysian and Chilean markets when the UK joins the dynamic trade bloc.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:40 UTC

  Goldman Sachs facing charges in Malaysia for misleading investors on a US$ 6,5bn bond sale

  

  Three units of Goldman Sachs pleaded not guilty to charges of misleading investors regarding US$6.5 billion in bond sales that the U.S. investment bank helped raise for state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Bernama state news agency reported on Monday.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Greek company denies any connection of one of its tankers with the massive oil spill in Brazilian beaches

  

  The manager of an oil tanker being probed by Brazilian authorities in connection with an oil spill off the country’s coast has found “no proof” of the vessel conducting activities that may have led to leaks on a journey between Venezuela and Malaysia.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 20:07 UTC

  Malaysia and Indonesia clash over fires in the rain forest allegedly involving palm plantations

  

  Malaysia’s Minister of Primary Industries Teresa Kok expressed concern on Friday over a statement released by Indonesian authorities regarding the sealing of land owned by subsidiaries of four Malaysian plantation companies. Fire was said to be raging on the properties, contributing to haze in the region.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Uruguay's Mujica blasts Malaysia as “a dictatorship where they kill 25 people every day”

  

  Malaysia is a bloodthirsty dictatorship where they kill 25 people every day, according to Uruguay's ex president Jose Mujica. The Uruguayan leader speaking at a political rally put in the same bag, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, China as part of a poor defense of the regime of his good friend, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.

• Thursday, January 17th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Goldman Sachs apologizes and blames former partner for Malaysia's major corruption scandal

  

  Goldman Sachs new boss has apologized to Malaysia for the role an ex-partner played in the corruption scandal at one of the country's wealth funds. However, chief executive David Solomon also distanced the bank from the scheme, which saw billions embezzled from the state development fund, 1MDB.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 15:03 UTC

  Malaysia to join list of countries that have abolished death penalty

  

  Malaysia's government has pledged to amend the law and abolish capital punishment. It will also halt all pending executions, it was reported.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 06:04 UTC

  Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela and Spain join the Security Council

  

  In three rounds of voting on Thursday the United Nations General Assembly elected Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2015.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:04 UTC

  Wikileaks reveals Malaysian air force over up of F-5 jet engines which turned up in Uruguay

  

  The Malaysian government failed to inform Washington that two “US-supplied” F-5 fighter jet engines had gone missing since May 22, 2008, despite having at least “three opportunities” to come clean, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables released recently.
  The engines two years later were finally located two years later in Uruguay.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 03:57 UTC

  Malaysia Air Force Officers Sue Government Over Missing Jet Engines Found in Uruguay

  

  Five former Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF) officers, including a brigadier-general, are suing the Armed Forces Council for wrongful dismissal. They are claiming that they had been wrongfully dismissed after an inquiry held over the two missing RMAF F5E fighter jet engines that were later located in a Uruguayan warehouse, apparently the property of an Argentine company.