An agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia on visa waiver for diplomatic and official passport holders came into effect Thursday, Banglaseh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Malaysia will not stop until justice has been served for those who died on board flight MH17.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Thursday that despite the rapid depreciation of ringgit against the greenback in recent months, his government will not impose capital control or peg the ringgit to the U.S. dollar as the country's economic foundation remains sound.
A giant panda from China gave birth to a cub in Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Tuesday.
The investigators and experts participating in the identification of the probable missing MH370 wreckage arrived Wednesday afternoon in a military laboratory in Toulouse, according to Xinhua journalists on site.
Experts from France and Malaysia are meeting in Paris ahead of the verification of suspected MH370 debris which will start Wednesday, with most adopting a wait-and-see approach.
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution on the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate the downing of a Malaysian airliner last year.
U.S. investigators have concluded that the piece of aircraft debris found Wednesday near a French island in the southern Indian Ocean came from a Boeing 777, raising the odds that it belongs to the mysteriously vanished MH370, U.S. media reported.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was in discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday morning about the setup of a special United Nations (UN) tribunal for the prosecution of those responsible for the crash of flight MH17, the Dutch government press office told Xinhua.
The president of the UN Security Council said on Thursday Malaysia intends to introduce a draft resolution, touching off an anticipated "months" of debate, on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, which killed all 298 people on board.
The ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum (ARF) Disaster Relief Exercises (DiREx) 2015 co-chaired by China and Malaysia kicked off here on Monday which would involve over 3,000 participants from 21 ARF members and eight regional and international organizations.
The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project has attracted much interest from countries with the HSR technology, and Chinese companies are welcomed to continue to engage with both Malaysia and Singapore and participate in the tender later, a senior Malaysian official told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Monday with his Malaysian counterpart Anifah Aman here in New York on promoting deeper bilateral cooperation.
The United States said on Tuesday it is "deeply disappointed" by the decision of Malaysia's highest court to upheld a guilty verdict against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
327 days on, the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was finally announced as an "accident" and all 239 onboard the plane are presumed dead.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh will take part in the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia from Jan. 27 to 28, said Pham Thu Hang, vice spokesperson of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
Malaysia summoned U.S. ambassador to Malaysia on Wednesday to explain the United States' position on Malaysia's decision to retain the Sedition Act 1948, according to local reports on Thursday.
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