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Malaysia

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We are ‘too small’ to take retaliatory action against India’s palm oil import curb: Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammad

OpIndia Staff - 20 January, 2020

Malaysian PM said at the U.N. General Assembly last month that India had 'invaded and occupied' Kashmir, following which India’s top vegetable oil trade body had asked its members to stop buying oil from Malaysia

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Baba Ramdev welcomes restrictions on Palm oil imports by Modi govt, says it will help farmers and domestic refined oil industry

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2020

Although govt said that restriction on palm oil import was not country-specific, Malaysia's anti-India stand was important

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Malaysian university question paper refers to radical Islamist preacher Zakir Naik as ‘icon of Islamic world’, asks why he is not allowed to preach

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2019

Malaysian university initiates probe after controversy over its question referring to Zakir Naik as ‘icon of Islamic world’

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China plans to rewrite Quran and the Bible, Islamic organisation in Malaysia threatens China to ‘not cross the redline’

OpIndia Staff - 26 December, 2019

The Communist government of China has decided to rewrite the Bible and the Quran to fit socialist values.

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Malaysia: More than 1 out of 5 Muslim women believe husbands have the right to beat them, survey finds

OpIndia Staff - 21 October, 2019

The SIS survey also revealed the bigotry that prevails within the Malaysian society against non-Muslims.

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Malaysian PM claims Kashmir has been ‘invaded and occupied’, slams India, Israel, USA, Myanmar and bats for Rohingyas

OpIndia Staff - 29 September, 2019

Mahathir Mohammed stated that Jammu and Kashmir has been 'invaded and occupied' and India should find peaceful means to resolve the issue with Pakistan.

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‘We want Zakir Naik back’, Foreign Minister rebuts Malaysian PM’s claim that Modi didn’t request the radical Islamic preacher’s extradition

OpIndia Staff - 17 September, 2019

The Malaysian PM had stoked a controversy on Monday by claiming that Modi did not request him to hand over Radical Islamic preacher Zakir Naik

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Not many countries want him, Modi didn’t ask me to return this man: Malaysian PM on Zakir Naik

OpIndia Staff - 17 September, 2019

Malaysian PM Mohamad also said that Malaysia is still looking for a place to send Zakir Naik who has made racially hateful statements in their country and has been banned from speaking in public.

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