Miyazaki Hayao's Studio Ghibli partners with mm2 to distribute 21 anime classics across seven Southeast Asian countries over five years.

"I am very happy that this opportunity will be a great help in bringing our works to even more people, and to the children who will be born in the future," a Ghibli executive said of the plan.

Japanese film company Studio Ghibli has entered a distribution deal with Singapore-based mm2 Entertainment to release the studio's popular animted films around Southeast Asia over the next five years.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced plans on Friday, during a visit to Dhaka, to admit 18,000 Bangladeshi workers who had missed the previous deadline for employment in the country.

The Malaysian high commissioner says the prime minister will be meeting with the government led by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus.

A Cambodian woman who worked as a maid in Malaysia has been deported to her homeland for comments she posted on social media criticizing Cambodian government leaders, in the latest example of a Southeast Asian government helping another arrest a dissident.

A Cambodia prison official and an opposition activist group said Thursday that Nuon Toeun, 36, who had worked in Malaysia for several years, was arrested last week by Malaysian authorities following a request from the Cambodian government.

Nuon Toeun, 36, who had worked in Malaysia for several years, was arrested on a request from the Cambodian government.