Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak faces judgment on Friday for his alleged involvement in the country’s 1MDB mega-graft scandal, with a guilty verdict likely to add years to a sentence already being served. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/asia-pacific/crime-legal/malaysia-former-prime-minister-scandal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #malaysia #corruption #najibrazak

#KualaLumpur could actually learn a lot from #Jakarta's much improved transit system. While it still has a long way to go, it's far more usable and better connected, and the walkability around the #MRT stations is quite well done.

I would even say that, now, central Jakarta #Indonesia has nicer sidewalks than central #KL #Malaysia

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to hold a meeting of defense officials aimed at resuming a months-old ceasefire, as fierce border fighting between them entered a third week with at least 80 people killed so far. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/asia-pacific/politics/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #thailand #cambodia #sihasakphuangketkeow #malaysia #borderclash

Had to correct my Malaysian #grab driver who thought that Bahubali was a #Tamil film.

Most likely, only the Tamil version was released in #Malaysia but its a #Telugu film. Can't let this misinformation stand.

Floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia have killed close to 1,000 people.

A warmer world means heavier storms and deadlier rain.

Communities should not pay the price of a crisis they did not cause.

Protect people. Finance adaptation. Make polluters pay.

#climatechange #makepolluterspay #climatecrisis #floods #indonesia #malaysia #srilanka #thailand

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/1/live-over-900-killed-in-floods-in-indonesia-malaysia-thailand-sri-lanka

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will resume on Dec. 30, more than a decade after the Beijing-bound flight disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/asia-pacific/hunt-flight-mh370-malaysia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #malaysia #airaccidents

Malaysian customs authorities have charged three Japanese men with attempting to smuggle large quantities of marijuana into the Southeast Asian nation, with the men planning to deny the charges. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/crime-legal/marijuana-smuggling-malaysia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #malaysia #marijuana #airports #kualalumpur #customs

The death toll from cyclone-induced floods and landslides in Southeast Asia nears 800 as rescuers battle to clear roads and improved weather conditions reveal the scale of the disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/asia-pacific/asian-storm-death-toll/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southeastasia #typhoons #floods #indonesia #malaysia #thailand #srilanka

Floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia have killed close to 1,000 people.

A warmer world means heavier storms and deadlier rain.

Communities should not pay the price of a crisis they did not cause.

Protect people. Finance adaptation. Make polluters pay.

#climatechange #makepolluterspay #climatecrisis #floods #indonesia #malaysia #srilanka #thailand

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/1/live-over-900-killed-in-floods-in-indonesia-malaysia-thailand-sri-lanka

Indonesian and Thai authorities raced to clear debris and find hundreds of missing people as the death toll from devastating floods and landslides across Southeast Asia topped 600. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/asia-pacific/indonesia-thailand-missing-flood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #thailand #malaysia #southeastasia #floods

Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand faced mass devastation after a tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait fueling week-long heavy rains. There were 336 dead in Indonesia, 170 in Thailand and two in Malaysia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/30/asia-pacific/storm-deaths-southeast-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southeastasia #typhoons #indonesia #floods #landslides #thailand #malaysia

The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Southeast Asia climbed past 350 on Saturday as clean-up and search and rescue operations got underway in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/29/asia-pacific/southeast-asia-floods/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #thailand #malaysia #floods

Malaysia plans to ban social media for users under the age of 16 starting from next year, joining a growing list of countries choosing to limit access to digital platforms due to concerns about child safety. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/24/asia-pacific/politics/malaysia-social-media-16-2026/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #malaysia #socialmedia #students #children

My partner noticed how rarely we see mixed-race groups, even in groups of friends, in #KL #Malaysia, while at a local Kopitiam that seemed to be all Chinese-Malaysian (besides us). A day after she got to be the only non-Indian at an Indian restaurant.

It's perhaps a bit sad, but that was one of my first impressions when I first came to Malaysia 18 years ago.

One survivor recounted a harrowing journey that left him floating for days in the Andaman Sea after the sinking of a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority that left 27 dead. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/asia-pacific/rohingya-survivor-boat-sinking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #rohingya #malaysia #thailand #southeastasia #myanmar #refugees

@ncoca Welcome to the pavements/sidewalks of Malaysia! Malaysia's development overly focuses on roads, to the extent that they forget pedestrians have legs and lives too, and need to walk. Maybe the politicians are enjoying their wealthy life in moneyland while we are all in poverty, and we are blamed for our poverty.

#malaysia #infrastructure #urbanplanning #pedestrians #sidewalks #poverty #injustice #governance #sabah #advocacy #roadsafety #development #walkability

#KualaLumpur is a frustratingly annoying city from a #transit and #walkability perspective.

Perfectly nice, clean, on-schedule trains, lovely stations, surrounded by horrible connectivity and terrible pedestrian access. It's a system designed to fail, and there's no reason it should be this bad.

#Malaysia

The number of people confirmed dead after a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community sank near the Thailand-Malaysia border rose to 11 on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/asia-pacific/thai-malaysia-rohingya-boat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #thailand #malaysia #rohingya #migration #refugees #southeastasia #myanmar #bangladesh

I think I've met more interesting western #expats in a week in #Malaysia than I do in a year in #Japan.

Where I grew up, we were expected to feed ourselves early: every neighborhood had these shops called ‘zi char’, which were ‘dudes with huge woks, with so much fire it sounded like a jet engine’. It was fine and safe to go get food on your own even as.. a 7 year old? I did.

In Malaysia they call it ‘dai chau’ (big fry) and in Hong Kong they call it ‘dai pai dong’ (big stall.. outside?)

It was very common to go grab something for yourself or for your family if no one was cooking that day. My dish of choice was ‘mui fan’. Simmered rice. White rice, topped with a light gravy made with soy sauce, eggs, vegetables and seafood or meat. (Or black beans) it was US$2 for a filling dinner when I was a student. Probably US$5 now. In any case, these were dishes we wouldn’t make at home. Because it was so easily and cheaply available.

While I can get some version of ‘dai pai dong’ food in SF Cantonese food, I make my mui fan myself. I’ve learned that with ginger, scallions, garlic, soy sauce and mushroom bouillon powder, birds eye chillies and an egg, I can basically make the ‘mui fan’ that I love and miss. The same gravy is also used to top ‘moonlight hor fun’, which is like a chow fun with wider noodles and with the same gravy, with a raw egg on top (raw eggs are fine elsewhere).

I miss the flavors of home so desperately and stuff like this keeps me going.

#food #cooking #ChineseFood #Singapore #Malaysia #TootSea