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  • Malaysian Indian Congress leader denies quitting party post

    K.P. Samy, a member of the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), has denied reports that he would quit the post as he was not offered a senatorship in the upper house of the Malaysian parliament. "I had merely offered to step down to give way to younger leaders but the president urged me to stay on," the Malaysian Star quoted him as saying in a press conference ...

  • Malaysian Indian Congress to hold working committee meeting May 23

    The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) will hold its meeting Thursday, thereby setting into motion the process of holding the party's presidential election. Party vice president M. Saravanan said the CWC members will mainly discuss the formation of the election committee, the New Straits Times reported Monday. Formed in 1946, MIC is one of the oldest ...

  • Zahid promises no political interference in police force

    promised that there would be no political interference in the police force. He said the police have full jurisdiction to uphold the law. "There will be no interference whatsoever from me, my deputy or others at the ministry. "The police will carry out its law enforcement duties to the fullest extent," he told a press conference after his working visit to the Bukit Aman police ...

  • Malaysias KLCI closes nearly 8pt up IOI Corp CIMB advance

    KUALA LUMPUR: Rising retail interest in lower liners and penny stocks underpinned the broader market on Monday, as trading volume surged to nearly three billion shares. At the close, the FBM KLCI rose 7.99 points or 0.45% to 1,777.15, lifted by gains in plantation ...

  • Malaysias Tenaga unit issues $539 mln Islamic bonds to finance power plant

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 (Reuters) - A unit of Malaysia's state power firm Tenaga Nasional Bhd will issue Islamic bonds, or sukuk, worth 1.63 billion ringgit ($539.38 million) to finance the construction of a 1071 megawatt gas-fired power plant in northern Penang state. TNB Northern Energy Berhad will issue the sukuk, which can be redeemed from between 4 to 23 years, on May 29, Tenaga ...

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Escape From New York [Blu-Ray]

Escape From New York [Blu-Ray]

There has always been a sense of dystopianism and apocalyptic anxiety in the science fiction genre, and the 1970s--with its worldwide recession, oil shortages, Vietnam conflict, and ever-present tensions between the capitalist West and communist East--helped fuel a special ... ...

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  • Malaysia court orders release of 3 terror suspects

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -; A Malaysian court has ordered the release of an al-Qaida-linked former army captain and two other suspects charged with inciting terrorist ...

  • Hot Stock Instacom rebounds to day high confirms RM205 mil Sarawak job

    Reset KUALA LUMPUR (May 20): Instacom Group Bhd rebounded to its intraday high in afternoon trade after the firm said it has secured a RM205 million telecommunication network and infrastructure project in Sarawak.At 3.28pm, the exchange's 10th most-active stock rose as much as three sen or 8% to 42.5 sen with some 32 million shares done.The stock which has been actively traded since morning ...

  • Ideal Jacobs steps up expansion in China

    's China unit has bought a piece of 9,342.7 sq meters of leasehold land in Xiamen, China for 2.6mil renminbi (RM1.3mil) to construct a production plant. Due to the 80% capacity in its current factory, the label manufacturer said on Monday the exercise would complement the company's rapid growth pace. "Ideal Jacobs Xiamen's (IJX) existing production capacity will be fully ...

  • Rally to go ahead says Chegubard

    KUALA LUMPUR: Organisers of the 505 Blackout Rally plan to hold a 'Pesta Suara Rakyat' at the MPPJ Field next to Amcorp Mall this coming Saturday to expose incidents of electoral fraud said spokesman Badrul Hisham Shaharin. "We will present clear evidence of electoral fraud and reclaim the democratic right which was stolen from the people" he said, adding that the gathering ...

  • Discipline teacher acquitted of molesting 11 teenage girls

    KUALA LUMPUR: Suspended disciplinary head teacher Ismazi Ismail, 51, was acquitted by the Ampang magistrate's court on Monday of 11 counts of molesting 11 teenage female students. More to ...

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