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Malaysia's Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin speaks during a press conference after inspecting a container with plastic waste at a port in Butterworth, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish bin of the world can “dream on.” (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia sends back trash, says won’t be world’s waste bin

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FILE - In this June 18, 2019, file photo, former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak walks into the lift as he arrives at Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Najib made a religious oath in a mosque Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, denying a new accusation that he ordered the killing of a Mongolian woman 13 years ago.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Malaysian ex-PM takes Islamic oath denying murder claim

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Malaysian court approves US bid to extradite North Korean

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, walks out from the courtroom at the court house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for his corruption trial Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. Razak has started his defense Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in his first corruption trial linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund, that helped led to his downfall last year. (AP Photo)

Malaysia’s ex-PM Najib seeks to show he’s victim of fugitive

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Australian Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto meets the reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Exposto escaped the death penalty after Malaysia's top court acquitted her Tuesday for drug trafficking, in a rare ruling that could bolster calls for an end to capital punishment in the country. (AP Photo/Syawalludin Zain)

Malaysian court frees Australian woman in drug case

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Mu Sochua, Vice President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) speaks during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Cambodia's most prominent opposition politician Sam Rainsy says he's ready to risk imprisonment or death by returning to his country from self-imposed exile to unseat the country's longtime ruler. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

The Latest: Sam Rainsy affirms determination to return home

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Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha walks onto the stage to deliver an opening speech during the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ABIS) Nonthaburi, Thailand, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

ASEAN meeting grapples with trade war, territorial disputes

By JIM GOMEZ and ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Malaysia offers incentives to boost growth in 2020 budget

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Shamini Darshni Kalimuthu, Executive Director of Amnesty International Malaysia, seeks during a press conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Amnesty International has urged Malaysia to abolish the death penalty, saying unfair trials and the use of harsh treatment to obtain confessions put people at risk of execution. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Amnesty International urges Malaysia to end death penalty

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Lawyer says US bid to extradite North Korean is ‘political’

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

A military plane is parked before a cloud seeding mission at Subang military airbase as sky is shrouded with haze in Subang, Malaysia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Indonesian forest fires spread health-damaging haze across the country and into neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. Malaysian authorities used cloud seeding Monday in an attempt to clear the thick haze engulfing the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Indonesian police arrest hundreds linked to forest fires

By NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press

Kuala Lumpur city is shrouded with haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Malaysia's government has banned open burning and conducted cloud-seeding in Sarawak on Thursday to induce rain to clear the choking haze. (AP Photo)

Indonesian police arrest 185 over forest fires

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Firefighters try to extinguish brush fires in Pekanbaru, Riau province, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. Nearly every year, Indonesian forest fires spread health-damaging haze across the country and into neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. The fires are often started by smallholders and plantation owners to clear land for planting.(AP Photo)

Indonesia seals off 30 companies over forest fires

By NINIEK KARMINI and EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, president of UMNO (United Malays National Organisation), center left, and Abdul Hadi Awang, president of PAS (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party), center right, pose for media after a press conference for an event of officially join alliance in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. Two major opposition parties in Malaysia have forged a political alliance to consolidate support from the country's majority ethnic Malay Muslims, a move that could threaten Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's government in the next general elections. (AP Photo)

Malaysia’s 2 top opposition Malay parties forge alliance

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Tourist take a picture from Kuala Lumpur Tower as city stands shrouded with haze in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Malaysian authorities plan to conduct cloud-seeding activities to induce rain to ease the haze. The government said it will press Jakarta to take immediate action to put out the burning forests and ensure the fires won't occur again. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

As Indonesia fires rage, schools and airport forced to close

By NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, center, waves to Cambodian government officers upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Mahathir has arrived in Cambodia for a three-day official visit to strengthen the two countries' bilateral relationship. (Khem Sovannara, Agence Kampuchea Presse via AP)

Malaysia’s Mahathir begins state visit to Cambodia

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In this hand out picture taken Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, show Philip Alston, the U.N. rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, visiting Kampung Numbak in Sabab, east of Malaysia. Alston said Malaysia's official poverty rate, which fell from 49 percent in 1970 to just 0.4 percent in 2016, was &quot;extremely artificial&quot; and doesn't reflect the cost of living and excluded vulnerable populations. (Bassam Khawaja via AP)

UN envoy challenges Malaysia’s claim to near zero poverty

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Judge postpones 2nd corruption trial of Malaysia’s former PM

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Malaysia renews Aussie rare earth plant’s permit, sets rules

By EILEEN NG - Associated Press

Malaysia charges 17 Goldman Sachs figures over 1MDB scandal

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