PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire in a significant breakthrough to resolve deadly border clashes that entered a fifth day, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Monday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes the ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand as a positive step towards ending current hostilities and easing tensions, a UN spokesperson said Monday.

K UALA LUMPUR, July 23 — Malaysia is in the process of joining the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and plans to officially sign the UN treaty this October in Vietnam, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said today.

MALAYSIA is set to ratify the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in October, the House was told. Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said this was part of the effort to combat the growing threat of cybercrime, which is getting more sophisticated and creative.

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Malaysia, together with ASEAN member states, is proposing reforms to the veto power held by the five permanent members (P5) of the United Nations

“In the weeks before the UN review, Malaysia passed laws permitting detention without trial, dragged critics into court for staging protests and showing films, and continued its dubious prosecution of the opposition leader,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The Human Rights Council should speak out against Malaysia’s backtracking on human rights, and ...