Entity

Malaysia

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 6 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Business and Big4 Advisory.

As of 19 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Directorate General of Maritime Administration bans deployment of Indian seafarers in Malaysia’s Sarawak region

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 1 event and claims involving Malaysia

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 51 mentions on 18 Oct 2026, against 55 on 27 Sept 2026 (-7%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 11 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 8 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 18 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,387 documents · 263 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.047: about 95% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Malaysia

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

ChinaIndonesiaSingaporeAIJapanThailandIndiaSouth Korea
  • China · 516 shared documents
  • Indonesia · 513 shared documents
  • Singapore · 502 shared documents
  • Asian · 410 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 347 shared documents
  • Japan · 343 shared documents
  • Thailand · 338 shared documents
  • India · 308 shared documents
  • South Korea · 262 shared documents
  • Philippine · 244 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 51 mentions on 18 Oct 2026 with 55 on 27 Sept 2026 (-7%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +920% from 3 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, between 5 and 80 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Malaysia, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Malaysia yet. Ask about Malaysia

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/8179b56523b7e878620e2634 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name malaysia.

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  "outlets": 64,
  "domains": 6,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-19T14:57:09.701384+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "steady",
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    "changes": 4
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 163 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
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  }
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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Malaysia

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Directorate General of Maritime Administration bans deployment of Indian seafarers in Malaysia’s Sarawak region

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Malaysia

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Malaysia

Entity.

Evidence
1,387 documents · 263 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 30 Jun 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
19 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Malaysia, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Markets materially about Malaysia

Markets whose question is about Malaysia or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Malaysia and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No open market in the record is materially about Malaysia: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

2 more open markets joined to Malaysia but not about it
  • 41% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Kuala Lumpur be 33°C on October 20?”

    Polymarket · priced 19 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 20 Oct 2026

  • 54.5% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Kuala Lumpur be 33°C on October 19?”

    Polymarket · priced 19 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 19 Oct 2026

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will the highest temperature in Kuala Lumpur be 33°C on October 18?” (closed 18 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 11 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 29 Sept 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 29 Sept 2026

4 changes recorded since 8 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about MalaysiaWatch Malaysia

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 19 Oct 2026.