malaysia

Has Malaysia violated international law?

The deportation of a Saudi national has significant human rights implications

Parish trains voters to spot election fraud

Some 50 Catholics participated in a voters’ education program organized yesterday by the Parish Human Development Committee of Penang’s City Parish. Volunteers from a civil society action group called Tindak Malaysia conducted the program that included how

'Guidelines' for Muslims raise concerns

Proposal urges Muslims not to attend religious ceremonies of other faiths

Malaysia's migrant policy inconsistent

Country not sure if it wants to abet or deter asylum seekers and refugees

Malaysia deports Saudi blogger for anti-Islamic tweets

A blogger who insulted the Prophet Mohammed on Twitter has received numerous protests and death threats, while human rights groups are arguing against his return to Saudi Arabia.

To venerate or not to venerate

Bowing to ancestral tablets should be a matter of personal conscience

Students may soon mix with politics

Amendment to law may give more political freedom to universities and academics

Racism 'becoming more prevalent'

Institutionalized racism is subtle but pervasive and becoming increasingly aggressive, speakers at a public forum in Kuala Lumpur said yesterday. The government in the past 40 years has adopted “Malay-centrism as its central populist ideology” to remain in

Signs of hope for Malaysia’s judiciary

Anwar's acquittal gives hope that independence is returning to the country's courts

Christians want non-Muslim ministry

Ecumenical body calls for end to attacks by state-owned media

Migrant labor rights are human rights

Malaysia must respect migrant workers as they do any other workers

Migrants, students get home taste of Christmas

Local Church organizes traditional Mass

Youths deliberate in parliament

Delegates select a number of issues to be referred to state assembly
  • Parishioners write Bible by hand
  • A Penang parish presented a bound volume of the Old Testament, handwritten by Catholics, during the Mass at Immaculate Conception Church on December 10. The project was staged to mark the parish’s bicentenary. “We had 2,876 participants and there were
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