'Incredible' Red Bull upgrade enlivens F1 in Malaysia
Even Lewis Hamilton fears Max Verstappen will be tough to beat in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
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Even Lewis Hamilton fears Max Verstappen will be tough to beat in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
Max Verstappen takes his and Red Bull's first pole position of 2026 with an imperious performance in qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
French cyclist Ronan Auge is placed in a medically induced coma following a crash at the Tour of Langkawi in Malaysia.
Shrinking resources for refugee support groups in Malaysia collide with increasing hostility towards the Rohingya.
Red Bull are tipped by George Russell and Charles Leclerc as the team to beat after the first day at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur calls it a voluntary process, but many are raising safety concerns.
This weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia is declared a heat-hazard race, the third time the designation has been used this year.
Malaysia sends Rohingya back to Myanmar despite safety warnings
Malaysia welcomed persecuted Muslim minority but now plans to send them back to Myanmar amid rising hate against them.
Malaysia has started repatriating about 1,500 Myanmar nationals, defying warnings from the UN and rights groups. Malaysia, facing an uptick in anti-migrant sentiment, says the program is strictly voluntary.
About 1,500 refugees are to be sent back in the first phase, despite criticism from rights groups.
Human rights groups say some 5,000 returnees could face violence, persecution and forced conscription.
The top seeds defend their Asian Games squash titles, becoming the first players to qualify for the Los Angeles Games.
Bahrain’s move to Malaysia creates an F1 doubleheader with Singapore — and a chance for hotels to turn two race weekends into one regional travel surge.
“The Age of Goodbyes” begins, in more ways than one, with a curse. In Li Zi Shu’s sprawling Malaysian Chinese novel, a family is said to be marked by early death; in Edmund Yeo’s screen adaptation, in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival, that curse becomes the hinge on which five decades […]
Convicted in the 1MDB scandal for embezzling millions, former Prime Minister Najib Razak had repeatedly sought clemency. Malaysia's king has now granted him a "conditional pardon."