Kedah
(2002 est. pop. 1.7 million). Kedah State is situated on the northwestern coast of peninsular Malaysia and borders Thailand. The state is commonly known as the "Rice Bowl of Malaysia....
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi unveiled Monday
an ambitious 177 billion ringgit ($51.2 billion) economic blueprint
to boost development in the country's four northern states.
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Malaysia will begin construction of two oil refinery plants and
a pipeline cutting across northern Malaysia in August, a project that
will offer an alternative to the Malacca Strait in transp...
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Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said Monday that Malaysia
remains free of human bird flu cases after tests on 16 people
suspected of having contracted the virus came back negative.
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Two boys hospitalized in northern Malaysia have tested negative for bird flu, easing fears that the disease could be more widespread in the country than expected, a health official said Saturday.Ma...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Malaysia's largest telecommunications firm,
Telekom Malaysia, has suffered losses totalling 10 million dollars
for the first nine months of the year fro...
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was put in intensive care Monday after experiencing breathing difficulty, the third time he has been hospitalized since November, when he suffered a...
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Malaysia signed Monday deals with Indonesia and Saudi Arabia to
build a pipeline running across northern Malaysia that will cut oil
transit time from the Middle East to China and Japan from 2...
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