Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Malaysia ( or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A helicopter used to transport timber crashed in a remote Malaysian rain forest on Borneo island, killing the American pilot and injuring the co-pilot, officials said Sunday.
The helicopter went down Friday in a logging zone in Malaysia's eastern Sarawak state, a district police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make public statements.The American pilot was killed and his co-pilot was hospitalized, the official said Saturday. Authorities have not determined the cause of the accident.Malaysia's New Straits Times newspaper and national news agency, Bernama, identified the pilot who was killed as William Charles Scott , 51, from Meridian, Mississippi, and the other man as David William Bergin, 49, from Bend, Oregon.Bergin, who had a fractured hand, spinal injury and other bruises, told the New Straits Times at a Sarawak hospital that the helicopter went into an uncontrollable spin before it crashed."That's all I could rec...Malaysia's government said it would allow Malay-language Bibles to be printed locally, in a major concession to the country's minority Christian community to soothe ...
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Prosecutors charged Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and two of his allies Tuesday with breaking various laws during a massive street rally to demand electo...
Prosecutors charged Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and two of his allies Tuesday with breaking various laws during a massive street rally to demand electo...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian conservationists caught on film a Sumatran rhinoceros thought to be pregnant, raising hopes that the critically endangered sp...
Titin Karisma parades onto the stage wearing a rhinestone bustier and matching bottoms, with sequin fringe that jiggles wildly to the rhythm of the beating drums.Pre...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two Malaysian princes reached an out-of-court settlement Wednesday to end a spat over who had the right to use a Bentley luxury car own...
The families of merchant seamen held by Somali pirates for more than 18 months say the crew members are being forced to call home with warnings they could suffer fur...
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From this island nation in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sent a message Saturday that America's new military focus on the Asia-Pacific is ...
The Pentagon will shift more Navy warships to the Asia-Pacific region over the next several years and by 2020, about 60 percent of the fleet will be assigned there a...
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi got an up-close look at her nation's long-standing refugee crisis for the first time Saturday, visiting a sprawling sea ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A helicopter used to transport timber crashed in a remote Malaysian rain forest on Borneo island, killing the American pilot and injuri...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued two starving pygmy elephant calves on Borneo island in the first known cases of the endangered a...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities are trying to trap a female mate for Tam, a rare Borneo Sumatran rhino, in a last-ditch effort to produce an offs...
A Malaysian wildlife trader held captive by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants for a year in the southern Philippines says he saw group members as young as 15 skilled in...
2 killed, dozens injured at protests against mining company
The United States must show stronger international leadership to halt the violence in Syria, which could become a significant issue in this year's presidential campa...
A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people for drug trafficking, rejecting the defense argument that evidence was t...
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