McCurry beats McDonald's

McDonald's, a multinational food chain, which sued Malaysian-based McCurry (short form of Malaysian Chicken Curry) in 1999 for infringement of it's trademark, by use of the prefix 'Mc', has lost it's verdict in the...

Sri Lanka donates more corneas to needy Malaysians

Even among the growing propaganda war to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka, the Islana nation remains to be the biggest donor of humam corneas to Malaysia. " For the third year, the Sri Lankan government has donated...

My 500th day under ISA

  P Uthayakumar | Apr 26, 09 7:55am Today April 26, 2009, marks my 500th day under Umno’s captivity without being charged, tried or found guilty in a court of law. I suppose this is ‘justice’ for me, an Indian ethnic minority and human rights lawyer of 18...

Export Quality "Eelam". LTTE maybe eyeing Malaysia as next stop

Day by day it is getting clear that LTTE cannot establish it's Utopian homeland in Sri Lanka in the wake of the current situation the organization is in. In an analysis run by Sri Lankan news papers, there was a...

Sikhs pay 20 million religious tax to Taliban for their "safety"

Jizia - The pet name of "infidel" tax non-Muslims must pay to their Muslim rulers in order to show subjection of the state and its laws (read “Sharia”).Now minority Sikh community living in Aurakzai tribal...

Najib Tun Razak Malaysian PM

2009-04-03 06:22:17 - Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak was born July 23, 1953, in Kuala Lipis, Pahang is the country's Deputy Prime Minister since January 7, 2004. Najib is a member of the United Malays National...

Malaysia's employee savings fund declares 4.5% dividend

If returns from investments made in 2008 are used as a measure of how successful investment funds are, then Malaysia's Employee Provident Fund or EPF will arguably be one of the world's most successful.At 4.5%, the declared dividend is lower than the previous year's 5.8%. But...

Malaysia's next first lady expresses shock over smears

If Malaysia's first lady-in-waiting wants to look for a role model, she may have a tough act to follow. This March 31, her husband Najib Tun Razak takes over as the sixth prime minister of Malaysia after Abdullah...

Malaysian fined over online insults to Sultan

A Malaysian man was fined 10,000 ringgit ($2800 ) for posting comments of the Perak Royal Website using nasty an dobscene words - according to Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail. Azrin Mohamad Zain, a 33-year-old lab assistant,pleaded guilty to insulting Sultan Azlan Shah in...

Members of Parliament meeting in coffee shop or vacant lot?

Yes, it's true people. Only in Malaysia where you can find Members of Parliament having a state emergency meeting not in the House but in a coffee shop or a vacant lot. Only in Malaysia would you find rival...

U.S products

My report is about the Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia that had created a huge buzz and began a boycott on top 5 U.S products i.e. Starbucks, Colgate, Coca-cola, McDonalds and Caltex. In my opinion, the...

South/East Asia Today.

South/East Asia Today. Is a weekly + round up of the 10 or so most important News events. Via, Uwe Paschen.   US Secretary of State H. Clinton still touring Asia Asking for money to bail out the US. As the US...

Politician in Malaysia nudity row quits

A prominent Malaysian opposition politician has resigned after naked photos of her sleeping were circulated by mobile phone.  The opposition politician Elizabeth Wong has quit all her positions, paving the...

Rare estuarine crocodile spotted in Straits of Malacca

  These beasts lurk in rivers and can be a deadly menace to swimmers and residents in the northern coasts of Australia. But last weekend, a lone "saltie", as these giants are often called, was spotted off...

Malaysia to send 100,000 Indonesian workers home

KUALA LUMPUR - Nearly 100,000 Indonesian workers in Malaysia will be laid off and sent home by the end of the year as the economic downturn hits, a report said Wednesday.Malaysia has already banned the hiring of new foreign workers in factories, stores and restaurants due to...

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