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  • Indian-origin men jailed in Malaysia

    A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Indian-origin men to separate jail terms for brutally assaulting a Nigerian that led to his death. Judge Noor Azian Shaari of the high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced V. Ganesan, 29, to one year in jail and T. Kumar, 29, to seven years in jail for causing grievous injuries to Nwabudike Emmanuel Chukwuma that led ...

  • Syariah Court can annul child’s marriage says SIS

    KUALA LUMPUR: The Syariah Court can annul the marriage between the 13-year-old girl in Sabah and the man accused of raping her even if they had been having sex after their marriage. SIS legal officer Kartina said that even if they had consummated the marriage, the court could annul it under Islamic Family Law in Sabah because of the consent factor. "It was reported that the girl's ...

  • New crime prevention department to be set up

    KUALA LUMPUR: The police force will have a new department which will formulate long-term strategies to prevent and reduce crime. The new Crime Prevention Department is expected to start at the end of the month, Inspector-General of ...

  • Women’s groups laud A-G’s promise to press statutory rape charges against Riduan

    . Sisters in Islam said it was a matter of public interest and it was incumbent on the civil and syariah legal systems to "ensure justice is served and seen to be served for all our children". "The decision to go ahead affirmed the position that statutory rape is a very serious matter that needs to be dealt with firmly by the law and that marriage is not exploited as a means to ...

  • Probe into why teen withdrew rape report

    KOTA KINABALU: Events leading to the purported marriage of a 40-year-old restaurant manager to a 13-year-old girl here are being pieced together as prosecutors and law enforcers investigate why the teenager withdrew a rape report against the man. The Sessions Court here has given the prosecution till June 6 to decide whether they will proceed with the rape case, framed under Section 376 (1) of ...

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Big Trouble

Following the big-budget debacle of 1999's Wild Wild West, director Barry Sonnenfeld apparently felt the need to downsize for his next film, opting to helm an adaptation of syndicated humorist Dave Berry's novel Big Trouble, which finds the paths of a gaggle of oddball characters, from a miserable housewife, to a tree-dwelling hippie, to a pair of New Jersey hitmen, chaotically inte ... ...

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  • Prime Minister to address global women conference

    is scheduled to deliver the opening address at a landmark global gathering Women Deliver 2013 Conference at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) here next Tuesday. Malaysia is the first Asian country to be given the honour to host the global conference, which was previously held in London and Was­hington. According to a statement from the conference’s Malaysia Media ...

  • Sabah security is new Defence Minister’s priority

    , who will look into the East Sabah Security Command (Esscomm) and the Eastern Sabah Safety Zone (Esszone) as his first order of business. ';It is what we have promised the people of Sabah in which the Ess­comm and Esszone need to be in operation. ';It is something that both the Defence and Home Ministries – myself ...

  • Gerakan may accept government positions

    KUALA LUMPUR: Gerakan, which has decided not to hold any Federal Government position after its dismal showing in the general election, will look into the matter again following objections from within the party. The party's ...

  • EC gazettes official GE13 results

    said. Following the gazetting of the results, electoral candidates and political parties dissatisfied with the outcome had 21 days to file their objections or petitions. "The 21-day period begins from May 23," he said in a statement yesterday. The petitions could be filed at the High Courts in the respective states, he added. EC ...

  • Mind-blowing feats by mental giant

    PETALING JAYA: Without any hesitation, West Wong Woon Chieng mentally calculated and gave answers to additions of 10 two- and three-digit numbers. Media personnel using calculators to confirm his answers found that he got them all right except for one, which he managed to re-calculate correctly. ';We could not even type the numbers on our calculators fast enough, much less compete with the ...

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