Malaysian PM Najib Razak

(Aug 17): Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak gave cash handouts and offered debt waivers on Sunday to palm oil farmers, a key voter base for the scandal-hit leader who is preparing to seek re-election.

(Aug 7): In Malaysia’s capital, a banana fritter seller fastens helmets on his two children and helps them onto his motorcycle. A third child stays with a school bag on the footpath outside their flat. He’ll need to wait for his father to come back.

(Aug 3): In Malaysia, Khairy Jamaluddin is canvassing ideas to "future-proof" a country he warns has trailed its counterparts for decades.

(July 6): As the Asian financial crisis raged on two decades ago, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad committed economic heresy by rejecting an International Monetary Fund bailout and slapping capital controls on global investors.

SINGAPORE (May 19): The stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak allegedly used funds originating from a troubled state investment company to buy a house in central London in 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.