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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2017, file photo, Malaysia former Prime Minster Najib Razak, third from left, looks at modals of ECRL (East Coast Rail Link) during the project launching in Kuantan, east cost of peninsula Malaysia. Malaysia's state news agency has cited Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad as saying that multibillion-dollar China-financed projects have been canceled. Bernama says Mahathir told Malaysian reporters during the final day of a visit to Beijing on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018 that both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang understood the reasons behind the cancellations and &quot;accepted them.&quot; (AP Photo, File)

Malaysian PM says China-financed projects canceled

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, right, walks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Malaysia lobbies for Chinese help amid fiscal woes

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 2, 2018, fie photo, a commuters walks past an advertisement discouraging the dissemination of fake news, at a train station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia's new government on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, repealed a widely criticized law prohibiting &quot;fake news,&quot; in a move hailed as a landmark moment for human rights by a group of Southeast Asian lawmakers. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

New Malaysian government repeals law banning ‘fake news’

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China urges Malaysia to address project woes through talks

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Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Mahathir said he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt, and he blasted Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya minority as &quot;grossly unjust.&quot; (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

Malaysia PM on China, Rohingya, Singapore, graft and sea row

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Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Mahathir said he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt, and he blasted Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya minority as &quot;grossly unjust.&quot; (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

AP Interview: Malaysia’s Mahathir aims to scrap China deals

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

Malaysian former Prime Minister Najib Razak waves to the media as he walks in High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Najib was charged of money laundering on Wednesday over a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund, the anti-corruption agency said. (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

Malaysia ex-PM fails in media gag bid ahead of graft trial

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Thai official says child bride has returned from Malaysia

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Malaysia's marine police on their security boat watch luxury yacht Equanimity, allegedly bought with money stolen from the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund, arriving at Port Klang in Klang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. The $250 million Equanimity, seized by Indonesia off Bali in February in cooperation with the U.S. FBI, was handed over to Malaysian authorities on Monday at the Indonesian island of Batam near Singapore. (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

Luxury yacht in graft probe arrives in Malaysian port

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Malaysia shuts down Saudi-backed anti-terrorism center

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Former Malaysian PM faces new charge of money laundering

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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, arrives at High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. Najib will face a new charge of money laundering over a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund, the anti-corruption agency said. Najib in July pleaded not guilty to abuse of power and three counts of criminal breach of trust, just two months after the scandal led to his stunning election defeat. (AP Photo/Yam G-Jun)

The Latest: Najib pleads not guilty to money laundering

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Luxury yacht &quot;Equanimity&quot; is anchored in the waters off Batam Island, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. Malaysia's prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said Indonesia has handed over the luxury yacht allegedly bought with money stolen in the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund. (AP Photo/Djalu)

Malaysia: Indonesia returns yacht seized in graft probe

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Relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 assist another relative near a banner which reads &quot;Investigation report disappoints&quot; after gathering to hear the report by a 19-member international team in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. The relatives are refusing to accept the latest report on the plane's disappearance four years ago and are demanding the search be restarted. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Relatives refuse to accept report on missing Malaysian plane

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Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, left, shakes hands with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail at parliament building in Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Australia says Malaysia hasn’t sought hitman’s extradition

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In this April 11, 2016, photo, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia, shows a statement to the media during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The civil aviation chief said Tuesday, July 31, 2018, he resigned to take responsibility after an independent investigative report highlighted shortcomings in the air traffic control center during Flight 370's disappearance four years ago. (AP Photo)

Malaysia’s civil aviation chief quits over Flight 370 lapses

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Sarah Nor, the mother of Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries after she attended a briefing on the final investigation report on missing flight MH370 in Putrajaya, Monday, July 30, 2018. Malaysia issues a safety investigation report with detail analysis after a renewed search by a private U.S. firm for missing Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean ended two months ago without finding the wreckage. The plane disappeared in March, 2014 with 239 people on board while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Investigators can’t rule out ‘interference’ in loss of MH370

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

In this July 13, 2018, photo, people read books near a globe showing the southeast countries on the South China Sea with nine-dash line claims under Chinese territory on display at a bookstore in Beijing. Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says the country's new government will adopt a firmer stand in tackling a decades-old territorial row in the South China Sea amid China's aggressive expansion in the disputed area. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Malaysia to be firmer in row over South China Sea

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, July 4, 2018. Najib was charged Wednesday with criminal breach of trust and corruption, two months after a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund led to his shock election defeat. (AP Photo/YC Hiam)

Najib Razak, ex-Malaysian leader, charged with breach of trust, graft

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Setev Shaarriibuu, father of a Mongolian woman who was murdered in 2006 arrives in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Setev Shaarriibuu, the father of Setev Shaarriibuu, the Mongolian model whose murder touched off a scandal in the highest levels of Malaysia's recently ousted ruling party, says he will ask the new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to reopen the investigation into his daughter's death. (AP Photo)

Slain Mongolian model’s father seeks Malaysia to reopen case

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