News from Malaysia
184,217 news articles from publishers in Malaysia, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is luminews.my with 143,833 articles, 78.1% of the total, followed by reddot.my, www.freemalaysiatoday.com. By language it splits into English (87,225), Malay (64,014), Chinese (29,697) and 5 more. Daily volume averages about 2,372 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 4,192 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MY&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=MY&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Malaysia articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MY&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T23:02 | Jetour T2 Ultra is the facelift's name for international markets outside of China - coming to M | paultan.org |
2026-10-22T21:30 | Cabinet, Malaysians should be told why Waze must be ditched | twentytwo13.my |
2026-10-22T20:34 | 涉嫌参与绑架杀人 2男子藏身豪宅遭逮捕 | reddot.my |
2026-10-22T20:31 | 购物中心惊现室内大瀑布 顾客逛街遇雨水从天而降 | reddot.my |
2026-10-22T20:27 | 10月28日观音诞 求财求子求平安 | reddot.my |
2026-10-22T20:16 | Nikkei Sinks 2.65% to Near Three-Month Low as AI Spending Doubts Hit Tokyo Electron, SoftBank | businessnews.com.my |
2026-10-22T20:16 | Meghan lights candle and fills champagne glass in festive As Ever celebrations | luminews.my |
2026-10-22T20:15 | 女星怀二胎大方秀身材 夫妻甜蜜放闪 | reddot.my |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
luminews.my | 143,833 | 78.1% | query |
reddot.my | 10,274 | 5.6% | query |
www.freemalaysiatoday.com | 3,188 | 1.7% | query |
www.multiscore.net | 2,143 | 1.2% | query |
pr-malaysia.com | 2,021 | 1.1% | query |
malaysianews24.com | 1,885 | 1.0% | query |
www.capitalpost.com.my | 1,884 | 1.0% | query |
newslah.com | 1,641 | 0.9% | query |
malaytime.com | 1,618 | 0.9% | query |
latestmalaysia.com | 1,605 | 0.9% | query |
paultan.org | 1,294 | 0.7% | query |
www.therakyatpost.com | 1,224 | 0.7% | query |
productnation.co | 1,115 | 0.6% | query |
www.malaysiakini.com | 960 | 0.5% | query |
www.goal.com | 870 | 0.5% | query |
mykmu.net | 858 | 0.5% | query |
beritamalaya.com | 762 | 0.4% | query |
www.lowyat.net | 676 | 0.4% | query |
maxisfibre.info | 669 | 0.4% | query |
www.sports247.my | 509 | 0.3% | query |
www.ummahtoday.com.my | 509 | 0.3% | query |
www.motoqar.com | 475 | 0.3% | query |
businessnews.com.my | 410 | 0.2% | query |
twentytwo13.my | 402 | 0.2% | query |
ceritera.com.my | 368 | 0.2% | query |
Languages published in Malaysia
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| en | English | 87,225 | 47.3% |
| ms | Malay | 64,014 | 34.7% |
| zh | Chinese | 29,697 | 16.1% |
| ja | Japanese | 2,029 | 1.1% |
| my | Burmese | 394 | 0.2% |
| es | Spanish | 6 | 0.0% |
| vi | Vietnamese | 2 | 0.0% |
| it | Italian | 1 | 0.0% |
Domain zones used by Malaysia publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| my | Malaysia | 159,653 | 86.7% |
| com | global commercial | 17,046 | 9.3% |
| net | global network | 3,922 | 2.1% |
| org | organisations | 1,296 | 0.7% |
| co | Colombia | 1,115 | 0.6% |
| info | information | 669 | 0.4% |
| tv | media | 305 | 0.2% |
| academy | academy | 207 | 0.1% |
| audio | audio | 2 | 0.0% |
| io | technology | 2 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 2,422 | |
2026-10-21 | 1,531 | |
2026-10-20 | 450 | |
2026-10-19 | 1,127 | |
2026-10-18 | 2,727 | |
2026-10-17 | 2,692 | |
2026-10-16 | 3,832 | |
2026-10-15 | 4,192 | |
2026-10-14 | 4,274 | |
2026-10-13 | 4,198 | |
2026-10-12 | 3,904 | |
2026-10-11 | 2,773 | |
2026-10-10 | 2,846 | |
2026-10-09 | 5,261 |
Combine with other filters
# Malaysia, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MY&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Malaysia, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MY&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Malaysia, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=MY&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"