Malaysia

Malaysia’s reformist politician Anwar Ibrahim has hailed what he described as a “new dawn” for the country, after he was released from jail with a royal pardon. Mr Anwar was convicted of sodomy and corruption three years ago, in a case he described as politically motivated. A warning: this report contains flash photography throughout.

The fallout from the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader in Kuala Lumpur continues.

One of the most serious allegations facing a world leader are those of personal corruption against the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Last year it was revealed that his personal bank account held a staggering $681 million. Under pressure Razak set up an inquiry which found he’d done nothing wrong and that the money was…

Confirming that a wing part found on a Reunion Island beach earlier in the week is from missing flight MH370, the Malaysian transport minister says that a plane window has also been discovered.

Missing Malaysian airliner MH370 is the only 777 ever to be lost in the southern hemisphere and Malaysian experts have been sent to Reunion Island to investigate debris washed up on a beach.

British backpacker Eleanor Hawkins has apologised for stripping on a Malaysian mountain top and for causing any offence to local people who considered the mountain sacred.

When travelling abroad it is a good idea not to make the locals mad. A lesson learned, perhaps, by four backpackers who pleaded guilty to committing an “obscene act in a public place” in Malaysia.

Eleanor Hawkins, blamed for triggering an earthquake by posing naked on Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu, is fined £1,000 and sentenced to three days in jail.

A Malaysia Airlines plane returns safely to Melbourne airport, having turned back within minutes of take-off after an engine fire alert.

The father of Eleanor Hawkins, the British backpacker blamed for triggering an earthquake by allegedly posing naked on Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu, says she knows what she did was “disrespectful”.

Speed boats ferry people to shore from a giant ship hovering off the coast after the ransom is paid – and those who die onboard are simply tipped over the side.

Channel 4 News along with photo-journalist Raul Gallego Abellan travel deep into the jungle to the Malaysian trafficking camps after mass graves were uncovered along the border.

Malaysian authorities discover signs of torture and graves with multiple bodies in more than two dozen abandoned camps linked to human trafficking.

Mass graves and suspected human trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country’s home minister says.

As odious as the business of smuggling people across the Andaman Sea is, the traffickers and the “boat people” fleeing Burma and Bangladesh share a common cause.