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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 ...

  • Wall Street falters in volatile session on Fed worries

    NEW YORK: Stocks fell on Wednesday with the S&P 500 posting its biggest decline in three weeks, after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed some officials were open to tapering large-scale asset purchases as early as at the June meeting. Trading was volatile - the Dow and the S&P indexes both rose more than 1 percent during the morning, but fell more than 1 percent in ...

  • Malaysia-Market factors to watch on May 23

    Following is a list of events in Malaysia as well as news company-related and market news which could have an influence on the local market. --MARKET SNAP SHOT @ 14 GMT 00: ------ ------ ------ INSTRUMENT LAST PCT NET CHG CHG S&P 500 1,655.35 -0.83% -13.81 0 USD/JPY 103.43 0.27% 0.280 10-YR US TSY YLD 2.060 -- 0.023 SPOT GOLD $1,364.3 -0.30% ...

  • Malaysia to host Canberra car festival

    The Canberra-based Summernats car festival is heading overseas with an event in Malaysia next month.In June the first Summernats Malaysia will be held alongside the popular Malaysian GT at Sepang.Summernats co-owner Andy Lopez says it will begin as a small event in Asia without the activities traditionally seen in the ACT around New Year's Day."This year is just an exhibition event. ...

  • 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 ...

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Talk to Her (Hable con ella)

Talk to Her (Hable con ella)

For more than a decade, Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodvar has specialized in making the bizarre poignant, and in Talk to Her (Hable con ella), he has developed his most richly satisfying and deeply felt work without sacrificing the unique edge that makes it impossible not to talk about his films afterwards. Romance in the cinema is all too often routine, predictable; Almodvars ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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