PETALING JAYA, July 26 — Two men were charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with the murder of a Pakistani man at a condominium in Kelana Jaya early this month.

NAYPYIDAW, July 26 — Myanmar's Southeast Asian neighbours issued a stinging rebuke on Tuesday of the ruling military's execution of four political activists, calling it "highly reprehensible" and destructive to regional efforts to de-escalate the crisis.

NAYPYIDAW, July 25 — Myanmar's military junta has executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out "terror acts", it said on Monday, sparking widespread condemnation of the Southeast Asian nation's first executions in decades.

SINGAPORE, July 7 — Malaysian on death row Kalwant Singh was executed early this morning in Singapore’s Changi Prison, and his remains will be taken back to Cameron Highlands later today.

SINGAPORE, July 6 — Singapore Apex Court has dismissed the final appeal of Malaysian Kalwant Singh, who will be executed as scheduled on Thursday (July 7, 2022).

MELAKA, June 29 — A trader who trampled a man's head for a minute which resulted in his death was sent to the gallows by the Melaka High Court here today.

PUTRAJAYA, June 13 — The death penalty still exists in Malaysian law even though the government has, on June 8, decided to abolish the mandatory death penalty, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Parliament and Law) Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 — The European Union (EU) has welcomed Malaysia’s move to abolish the mandatory death penalty as an important step towards the complete abolition of the capital punishment in line with the worldwide trend.

KUCHING, June 10 — The government has yet to set a timeframe for the abolition of the mandatory death penalty to take effect, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Parliament and Law) Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said.

BERA, June 10 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob today explained that the death penalty will remain and not be abolished, and the change is only on the fact that judges are now given discretion in sentencing.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — The government has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and to substitute it with other sentences which are subject to the discretion of the court.

SINGAPORE, April 28 — The Singapore High Court today granted the stay of execution for Malaysian Datchinamurthy Kataiah, who was supposed to be executed on Friday, April 29, just two days after the execution of another Malaysia Nagaenthran Dharmalingam.

IPOH, April 28 — The remains of Malaysian Nagaenthran Dharmalingam will be laid to rest at the Hindu Cemetery in Buntong here on Friday (April 29).

SINGAPORE, April 26 — The Singapore Court of Appeal on Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge filed by Nagaenthran Dharmalingam’s mother in a last-ditch attempt to set aside her son's conviction and death sentence.

SINGAPORE, April 26 — About 300 people held a candlelight vigil at a Singapore park on Monday (April 25) to protest against the planned hanging of a Malaysian convicted of drug smuggling whom activists say should be spared because he has an intellectual disability.

SINGAPORE, March 29 — A Singapore court rejected on Tuesday an appeal against the execution of a Malaysian convicted of drugs smuggling, dismissing an argument put forward by his legal team that he should be spared because he was mentally impaired.

SINGAPORE, Nov 9 — Nagaenthran K.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — The question of whether the government should abolish the death sentence for drug trafficking offences will be among the issues raised at the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 — The use of Section 302 of the Penal Code for fatal drink-driving cases is appropriate although it requires a higher level of evidence, said a law expert.

SINGAPORE, May 20 — A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely.