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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Police release 18 protestors in front of Jinjang police station

    KUALA LUMPUR: Police have released 18 protestors, including four women, who were arrested for allegedly refusing to disperse at a gathering in front of the Jinjang police station near here Wednesday night. Kuala Lumpur police ...

  • Unicef welcomes move to protect girl from alleged rapist

    KUALA LUMPUR: United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) welcomed on Thursday the decision by the Attorney-General Chamber and Sabah Welfare Department to protect the best interests of the 13-year-old who was married by a 40-year-old man, Riduan Masmud, who allegedly raped her. Unicef Malaysia in a statement said the government's quick action and strong concern expressed by various NGOs ...

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Clean, Shaven [DVD]

Clean, Shaven [DVD]

Lodge Kerrigan's directorial debut, Clean, Shaven, is a daring and disturbing cinematic experiment that takes us inside the mind of a struggling schizophrenic for an unrelenting 80-minute ride. Kerrigan mixes a shaky narrative filled with gaping holes begging to be filled by the ... ...

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  • Malaysian police arrest opposition figures in crackdown

    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police arrested three opposition politicians and activists on Thursday and charged another with sedition, launching a crackdown on dissent three weeks after an election exposed deep divisions in the country and sparked a series of opposition protest rallies. The arrests and the charging of a student activist under the country's Sedition Act signal a ...

  • Ahmad Zahid Adhere to Act or pay a heavy price

    . He said organisers of mass rallies should respect the law and not create chaos because there was a "silent majority" among the people who did not agree with these gatherings. Ahmad Zahid was responding to questions from reporters on the recent mass protests organised by Opposition parties where election fraud was alleged. "I have said from early on that if they plan to hold ...

  • First meeting of first session of 13th Parliament begins June 24

    KUALA LUMPUR: The first meeting of the first session of the 13th Parliament is scheduled for 16 days from June 24, according to a statement from the office of the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat. It said the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, would officially open the meeting at 10 am on June 25 at Parliament House. The office received ...

  • Special team formed to probe lockup death

    KUALA LUMPUR: The police have set up a special team from Bukit Aman to investigate the death of a 32-year suspect, N. Dharmendran at the Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters lockup on Tuesday due to criminal action. Kuala Lumpur police ...

  • Indigenous Peoples Protest Destructive Sarawak Dams Coruption at Industry Conference in Malaysia

    More than three hundred indigenous people of the Penan, the Kenyah, the Kayan, and Iban ethnic groups protested this morning against the recently ...

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