Stuart Grudgings

Exclusive: Trafficking abuse of Myanmar Rohingya spreads to Malaysia

December 23, 2018 at 10:30 p.m.

BUKIT MERTAJAM, Malaysia (Reuters) - Human traffickers have kept hundreds of Rohingya Muslims captive in houses in northern Malaysia, beating them, depriving them of food, and demanding a ransom from...

Insight: China’s assertiveness hardens Malaysian stance in sea dispute

November 4, 2021 at 1:13 a.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The submerged reef would be easy to miss, under turquoise seas about 80 km (50 miles) off Malaysia's Borneo island state of Sarawak. But two Chinese...

Insight: China’s assertiveness hardens Malaysian stance in sea dispute

December 23, 2018 at 10:12 p.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The submerged reef would be easy to miss, under turquoise seas about 80 km (50 miles) off Malaysia's Borneo island state of Sarawak. But two Chinese...

Malaysia’s God problem erupts, tarnishing moderate image

August 25, 2021 at 12:27 a.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church seems like a model for the multicultural, tolerant Malaysia that its government likes to present to...

Malaysia’s God problem erupts, tarnishing moderate image

May 14, 2019 at 5:32 a.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church seems like a model for the multicultural, tolerant Malaysia that its government likes to present to...

Malaysia ruling party tightens embrace of Islam to gain support

August 24, 2021 at 10:55 p.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's ruling party, stung by an election setback in May, is burnishing its Islamic credentials, aiming to gain ground among majority ethnic Malay voters in a...

Newborn babies lie in cribs inside a chapel which was turned into a makeshift hospital.

Typhoon babies fight against odds in ravaged Philippine city

November 4, 2021 at 12:35 a.m.

TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - In the chapel of the only functioning public hospital in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban, seven tiny, premature babies lie sweltering in intense heat, looked over by anxious mothers...

Typhoon babies fight against odds in ravaged Philippine city

December 24, 2018 at 11:34 a.m.

Malaysia’s Najib entrenches power as reform drive fades

August 24, 2021 at 9:33 p.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Internal voting for top posts in Malaysia's ruling party at the weekend has proved Prime Minister Najib Razak to be a canny survivor - five months...

As Obama’s Asia ‘pivot’ falters, China steps into the gap

August 24, 2021 at 9:06 p.m.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - When then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared two years ago "We are back to stay" as a power in Asia, the most dramatic symbol...

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