Florence Looi

Coun­try’s leader has kicked off her gov­ern­ing par­ty’s cam­paign – be­fore No­vem­ber’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Dozens of peo­ple have died in the flood­ing and mil­lions have been told to leave their homes.

At least 50 deaths con­firmed but of­fi­cials ex­pect the toll to rise as new heavy rain warn­ings are is­sued.

Top­ics like­ly to dom­i­nate the dis­cus­sions in­clude the re­open­ing of bor­ders af­ter lock­down, Ro­hingya refugee cri­sis and the ter­ri­to­r­i­al dis­pute in the South Chi­na Sea.

Ven­dors at Malaysia’s Ra­madan bazaars are find­ing new op­por­tu­ni­ties de­spite lock­down re­stric­tions.

Mi­grant work­ers par­tic­u­lar­ly at risk from con­tract­ing coro­n­avirus due to cramped dor­mi­to­ries.

Yanghee Lee steps down af­ter six years of rais­ing the alarm on atroc­i­ties com­mit­ted against Ro­hingya mi­nor­i­ty.

Why the in­crease in glob­al de­mand for med­ical gloves has led to fears work­ers are be­ing ex­ploit­ed.