Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim speaks at a press conference at the prime minister’s office in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022.

Steve Inskeep talks to Anwar Ibrahim, president of Malaysia's ruling party, about how he plans a new era of governance. His party ousted a ruling coalition that had been in power for over six decades.

On 23 July 2025, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim made a special national address filled with populist announcements: RM100 cash assistance for every adult citizen, a reduction in RON95 petrol ...

A Malaysian Court of Appeal granted Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s application to fully pause a civil lawsuit against him by ...

Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner ...

Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim — jailed for years following a conviction on sodomy charges widely viewed as politically motivated — walked free on Wednesday following a royal pardon.

Today Anwar is seen as a beacon of democracy by the international community yet for almost two decades he drove the Islamisation of Malaysia with Prime Minister Dr Mahathir.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will step aside and hand power to Anwar Ibrahim around the administration's mid-term. Anwar was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to five years jail in a ...

As Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim prepares on Thursday to take over as prime minister, one of his recent comments serves to sum up the persistence that secured him the job he has eyed for three decades.

Anwar Ibrahim’s formal pardon after three years in detention on what he says was a trumped-up sodomy conviction frees him to succeed old partner and rival Mahathir Mohamad as prime minister—in ...