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  • Ex-Malaysian Indian lawyer three others get death

    A former Malaysian Indian lawyer and three others were sentenced to death Thursday in the high profile murders of a Malaysian businesswoman and three others in 2010. The high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced former lawyer N. Pathmanabhan, 43, and farm hands T. Thilayalagan, 21, R. Matan, 22, and R. Kathavarayan, 33, for the murders of cosmetics ...

  • Indian-origin mans death in custody classified as murder

    The death of a 32-year-old Indian-origin man while in police custody in Malaysia has now been classified as a murder. N. Dharmendran had died Tuesday while he was in a lock-up at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. According to city police chief Mohmad Salleh, the post-mortem report showed that Dharmendran might have been murdered while in police custody, local media reported Thursday. "The ...

  • Malaysia Opposition figures arrested weeks after election protests

    Supporters of the opposition Pan-Islamic Malaysian Party campaign along a road on the eve of elections on May 4, 2013 in Pekan, Malaysia. The elections, set for May 5, will see incumbent PM Najib Razak face Anwar Ibrahim, whose opposition coalition includes moderates, Islamists and Malaysians of Chinese descent. (Nicky Loh/Getty ...

  • Malaysia Release activists arrested in government U-turn on repressive law

    Malaysia must end its post-election crackdown and release a member of parliament and other opposition political activists arrested under the repressive Sedition Act, Amnesty International urged today.Opposition activists Tian Chua MP, Ibrahim Harris and Tamrin Ghafar were arrested in Kuala Lumpur today under the Sedition Act, which the government last year promised to repeal. Meanwhile, student ...

  • MACC begins investigation on payment in rape-marry case

    KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has started its investigation on a claim of possible corrupt practice involved in the case of a restaurant manager charged with raping an under-age girl in Kota Kinabalu. MACC director of ...

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Fired Up!

Fired Up!

Judging from the amount of bleeping during the outtakes at the end of Fired Up!, a teen-animal comedy about a couple of jocks who get in touch with their inner pompoms while trying to score with the short-skirted set at a cheerleading camp, it is a sure thing that ther ... ...

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  • Malaysian activist charged with sedition 3 others held

    KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and police arrested three others, including two opposition politicians, in what critics decried as a crackdown on ...

  • Guan Eng ticks off IGP for investigating DAP’s Chen Man Hin

    said the party was shocked that the police found it necessary to investigate the innocent actions of an 86-year-old who supposedly conspired to create public disorder when he used the term "Malaysia Spring" in a private e-mail correspondence over a year ago. It was reported that Chen was called in for questioning for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government through street ...

  • Temporary closure of traffic lights at junction of Jln Damansara Jln Wan Kadir 3

    KUALA LUMPUR: Traffic lights at the junction of Jalan Damansara and Jalan Wan Kadir 3 (coming from Kuala Lumpur/Sprint Highway) is temporarily closed from May 23 until further ...

  • Pakatan holds rally in Terengganu

    KUALA TERENGGANU: Thousands of people thronged a Pakatan Rakyat rally at Kuala Ibai here Thursday as the Opposition continues its protest against the results of the 13th general election. Mostly clad in black attire, the crowd began came trickling in after the Isyak prayers although stalls selling t-shirts and food have sprung up in the evening. Terengganu DAP chief Ng Chai Heng kick-started the ...

  • Malaysian Student Charged with Sedition 2 Others Arrested

    Malaysian authorities have charged a student activist with sedition and have detained two others, including an opposition politician, on similar charges after their involvement in a campaign to challenge what they say are fraudulent election results. Prosecutors Thursday charged Adam Adli under the country's controversial Sedition Act for allegedly telling a political forum that ...

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