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A man crosses a closed roadside after another deep sinkhole appeared a week after a woman fell into a sinkhole when a sidewalk caved in in Kuala Lumpur, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia beefs up search for Indian tourist who fell into sinkhole a week ago

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FILE - Matty Healy of the 1975 performs at the Reading Music Festival, England, on Aug. 28, 2022. The 1975 is being sued after Healy’s kiss of a bandmate in an on-stage protest shut down a music festival in 2023 in Malaysia. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

The 1975 is being sued after Matty Healy’s kiss of a bandmate shut down a music festival in Malaysia

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A woman writes well messages on the message board during the tenth annual remembrance event at a shopping mall, in Subang Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, March 3, 2024. Ten years ago, a Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, had disappeared March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with over 200 people on board. (AP Photo/FL Wong)

Malaysia may renew MH370 search a decade after the flight disappeared

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A woman writes well messages on the message board during the tenth annual remembrance event at a shopping mall, in Subang Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, March 3, 2024. Ten years ago, a Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, had disappeared March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with over 200 people on board. (AP Photo/FL Wong)

Malaysia may renew hunt for missing flight MH370, 10 years after its disappearance

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Phyo Zeya Thaw arrives at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 19, 2015. Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party also known as Maung Kyaw, was convicted in January by a closed military court of offenses involving explosives, bombings and financing terrorism. (AP Photo, File)

Widespread condemnation of Myanmar’s execution of prisoners

By David Rising and Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at Subang Airport, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

COVID case in U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s press curtails his Southeast Asia tour

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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Commuters wearing protective mask use their smartphone in a Mass Rapid Transit train, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Monday, May 4, 2020. Many business sectors reopened Monday in some parts of Malaysia since a partial virus lockdown began March 18. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia opens up partly; all foreign workers to be tested

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, file image, the reconstructed cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 plane is displayed before a news conference by the Dutch Safety Board in Gilze-Rijen, Netherlands. United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver them something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

MH17 families hope truth emerges from unprecedented trial

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, recovery workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine load debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in Hrabove, Ukraine, with recovery operations carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Five years after a missile blew Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 out of the sky above eastern Ukraine, relatives and friends of those killed will gather Wednesday July 17, 2019, at a Dutch memorial to mark the anniversary.(AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, FILE)

Relatives of victims mark 5th anniversary of MH17 downing

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad gestures during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Monday, April 15, 2019. Malaysia's government decided to resume a China-backed rail link project, after the Chinese contractor agreed to cut the construction cost by one-third. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia to revive 2nd major China-linked project

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Marc Leishman of Australia poses with his trophy after winning the CIMB Classic golf tournament at Tournament Players Club (TPC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Vincent Phoon)

Leishman goes for 2 straight PGA wins, feels right at home

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Justin Thomas of the United States of America follows his shot on the tenth hole during round one of the CIMB Classic golf tournament at Tournament Players Club (TPC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

Woodland’s 61 leaves him tied for CIMB lead with Leishman

By NICOLAS ANIL - Associated Press

In this combination of photos, Indonesian Siti Aisyah, left, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, right, are escorted by police as they leave their court hearing at Shah Alam court house in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. Aisyah and Huong, accused of fatally poisoning Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's ruler, pleaded not guilty as their trial began Monday in Malaysia's High Court, nearly eight months after the brazen airport assassination that sparked a diplomatic standoff. (AP Photos/Daniel Chan)

Siti Aisyah, Doan Thi Huong plead not guilty in North Korean Kim Jong-nam’s assassination

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

In this combination of March 1, 2017, file photos, Indonesian suspect Siti Aisyah, left, and Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi-huong, both suspects in the killing of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's estranged half brother, are escorted out of court by police officers in Sepang, Malaysia. Two women accused of poisoning Kim Jong-nam in a bizarre airport assassination are expected to plead innocent when they appear in a Malaysian court on Friday, July 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan, File)

Kim Jong-nam case: Suspects to plead not guilty in assassination

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

This image taken from an undated video shown to The Associated Press by the Philippine military shows Malaysian militant Mahmud bin Ahmad, who helped lead and finance the siege in southern Marawi city. Philippine Armed Forces Chief Gen. Eduardo Ano told The Associated Press on Friday, June 23, 2017, that Mahmud bin Ahmad died June 7, 2017, from wounds sustained in fighting with government troops in Marawi last month. (Philippine military via AP)

Philippines: IS funded siege through Malaysian militant

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This May 4, 2001, file photo shows Kim Jong-nam, exiled half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, in Narita, Japan. (AP Photos/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Kim Jong-nam murder case: Defense fears ‘trial by ambush’

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

A North Korean embassy staff asks police if they are allowed to leave as police puts a cordon at North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Malaysia says North Korean Embassy staff are barred from leaving country, after Pyongyang blocked Malaysians from leaving North Korea in the bitter diplomatic dispute between North Korea and Malaysia over the poisoning death of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother in Kuala Lumpur.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia: N. Korean’s family may be scared to come forward

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press