Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin waves as he leaves the Palace after meeting with King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah, in Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 4, 2021.

Defiant Malaysian PM Won’t Resign, Plans Confidence Vote Next Month

Opposition leaders, election watchdog say Muhyiddin Yassin should call special parliament session and hold vote immediately.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin attends a special session of the House of Representatives in Kuala Lumpur, July 26, 2021.

Malaysia: UMNO MPs Pull Support for Muhyiddin’s Govt

2021-08-03

Party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he had presented signed declarations to the king.

Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (second from left), opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (fifth from left), and other lawmakers hold up a Malay banner calling on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet to resign, during a protest at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 2, 2021.

Malaysian MPs Intensify Calls for PM to Quit After Parliament Shut Down

2021-08-02

Government postponed last day of special parliamentary session because 11 people had tested COVID-19 positive.

Foreign workers hold up documents for inspection by the Immigration Department during a raid on a housing camp for construction workers in Cyberjaya, in Malaysia’s Selangor state, June 7, 2021.

Malaysia Repatriates 88,000 Undocumented Migrants under Amnesty Programs

2021-08-02

Government collects $12M in fines given to foreign workers.

Lawmakers from the lower house of parliament are seen standing in protest against the administration after the palace rebuked the government for misleading the legislature, in Kuala Lumpur, July 29, 2012.

In Rare Move, Malaysian King Rebukes Govt for Allegedly Misleading Parliament

Monarch’s statement prompts strident calls from lawmakers for PM Muhyiddin Yassin to resign.

A police officer checks a driver’s papers at a roadblock amid a COVID-19 lockdown during the national emergency, in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia May 10, 2021.

Malaysians Bewildered, in Limbo Over Status of Revoked Emergency Laws

Citizens and opposition lawmakers fume as government dodges questions, delays explanation.

Heidy Quah Gaik Li (center), the founder of Refuge for the Refugees, speaks to reporters outside the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex, July 27, 2021.

Malaysian Court Charges Activist for Alleging Refugees Mistreated in Detention

Heidy Quah Gaik Li’s Facebook post last year described her experience of visiting an immigration detention center.

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