TEHRAN, September 5 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif has held separate phone calls with his Malaysian and Indonesian counterparts Mon. on the dire situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Nearly 1,200 protesters have taken to the streets in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, in solidarity with Rohingya Muslims after a fresh wave of violence erupted against the persecuted community in Myanmar.
TEHRAN, June 1, YJC - Armed police have stormed a Malaysia Airlines flight, which was forced to return to Melbourne after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit claiming he had a bomb, officials said.
TEHRAN, March 30, YJC - More than 115 refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, have lost their lives due to various diseases and other, unknown causes in Malaysia’s refugee detention centers over the past two years, authorities with a government-funded rights body said.
Malaysia has warned that an investigation into the murder of the North Korean leader's half brother "may take longer than what we hope," as Pyongyang ally China said on Wednesday that no international action should be considered until it is finished.
North Korea has barred Malaysian citizens from leaving the country, prompting Kuala Lumpur to quickly respond with a similar ban amid rising diplomatic tensions between the two sides over the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Malaysia.
A North Korean national suspected of murdering the half-brother of the country’s leader says he has fallen victim to a “conspiracy” by Malaysian authorities, who seek to harm Pyongyang’s dignity.
A Malaysian court has formally charged two female suspects with the assassination earlier of the North Korean leader’s exiled half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, at the Kuala Lumpur airport.
Malaysia said on Saturday it would issue an arrest warrant for a North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong Nam if he doesn't voluntarily cooperate with the police.
Police in Malaysia seek to question a senior official in the North Korean Embassy in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, in connection with the murder of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in the city last week.
Police in Malaysia seek to question a senior official in the North Korean Embassy in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, in connection with the murder of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in the city last week.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif is going to Visit Switzerland and Malaysia respectively for World Economic Forum annual conference and the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) conference to discuss conditions of Myanmar Muslims.
An aid flotilla organized to deliver food and emergency supplies from Muslim majority Malaysia to Rohingya Muslims is yet to receive permission to enter Myanmar, raising fears of confrontation and deterioration of already-tense ties between the countries.
The flotilla will sail from Malaysia for Myanmar's crisis-hit Rakhine State on January 10, the Malaysian organizer said on Friday. It would be carrying 1,000 tonnes of rice, medical aid and other essentials for the Rohingya population.
Malaysia has been highly critical of the violent crackdown by Myanmar's government in Rakhine, which has killed scores of people and displaced 30,0000 Rohingya, amid allegations of abuses by security forces.
The organizers of the flotilla had applied for permission through Myanmar’s embassy in Kula Lumpur to cross into the Buddhist-dominant country, but have yet to receive a reply, according to the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations secretary general Zulhanis Zainol.
“Even if we do not receive a response, we will continue to sail as we believe this is an important humanitarian mission," he said.
Myanmar's presidential office, however, said it had obtained no such request, adding that it would “not receive” the flotilla without permission.
“If they are looking for trouble, we will not accept that," Zaw Htay, the spokesman for the presidential office.
“No non-Myanmar citizens can enter our body of water without our permission. If they do, we will respond - we will not attack them, but we will not receive them."
Earlier this month, Malaysia urged the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to coordinate humanitarian aid and investigate alleged atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims.
An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Rohingyas, displaced by violence, live in Malaysia.
In an open letter on Thursday to the United Nations Security Council, a group of 23 human rights activists, including Nobel laureates and current and former business and political leaders, criticized Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to ensure human rights for the minority Rohingya Muslims facing persecution in the Buddhist-dominant country.
Rakhine has been the scene of communal violence at the hands of Buddhist extremists since 2012. Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands have been forced from homes to live in squalid camps in dire conditions in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The government in Myanmar denies full citizenship to the 1.1 million Rohingya population, branding them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. However, the Rohingyas are believed to be a community of ancient lineage in Myanmar.
According to the UN, the Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
The global community has warned Myanmar that the ongoing human rights violations in Rakhine could amount to “crimes against humanity.”
(Press TV)
Malaysia has announced that it will pursue free trade agreement (FTA) talks with Iran as part of efforts to expand bilateral trade ties between Tehran and Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia’s Petronas has signed an agreement to study two Iranian oil fields – the latest in a wave of similar agreements that the country is awarding international energy giants over its most lucrative oil projects.