The question, however, is whether Adams is the right person to serve that duty in the current moment.

The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN has agreed that an election in Myanmar was not a priority and is urging the country's ruling junta to adhere to its peace commitments instead, Malaysia's foreign minister said on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad marked a historic milestone as he turned 100 on Thursday, calling the moment “quite frightening” without showing signs of slowing down.

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia’s prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020, resembles other statesmen he hobnobbed with back in the 1980s—such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew and Deng Xiaoping.

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency is looking to seize and forfeit more than 3 billion ringgit ($705 million) worth of assets that are linked to the late tycoon and former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, his family and associates.

China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, Malaysia's foreign minister said on Thursday.

Malaysia’s central bank has finally joined its rate-cutting peers, lowering its benchmark interest rate for the first time in five years to support the economy.

"This rare discovery marks a historic moment."