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Thursday January 27, 2011 Bike thieves pick on wrong target By NIK NAIZI HUSIN [email protected] MARAN: The crime spree of motorcycle thieves known as Gang Pyramid came to an end when they tried to steal from police...

Tuesday January 25, 2011 Artist loses her fingers, not her talent MALACCA: She has lost her fingers but can write beautiful Chinese calligraphy using her hands, feet and mouth. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, He Yui Mei, 40, demonstrated her...

Monday January 24, 2011 Man rescued from leaping off 14th floor MIRI: A middle-aged man was saved when firemen and security personnel managed to stop him from leaping off the 14th floor of an uncompleted shopping and hotel complex here. The drama...

Saturday January 22, 2011 Maniam gets citizenship after 40 years IPOH: Estate helper M. Maniam (pic) was born under a rain of bombs dropped by the Japanese during World War II. Maniam said his father had no chance to register his birth then. “My...

Jan. 20, 2011 Chimp, Gorilla Heads Lead to Gabon Arrests Five People Caught With Dozens of Chimpanzee, Gorilla, Leopard, Elephant and Lion Body Parts In this March 7, 2006, handout photo provided by Nature magazine, Chimp 099 is shown with her daughter in Gombe National Park...

Corrupt Indonesian Taxman Gets 7 Years In Prison Posted: Jan 19, 2011 7:08 AM JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian taxman caught bribing his way out of prison and watching an tennis tournament while wearing a wig...

U.S. woman arrested in Iran for spying - report TEHRAN | Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:47am GMT TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian border guards have arrested an American woman on suspicion of spying after she entered the country illegally by land, a semi-official news agency reported...

Sunday January 16, 2011 Don’t count on supply of maids from Cambodia, says envoy By PAUL GABRIEL [email protected] KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians looking towards Cambodia to resolve their domestic worker problems have to turn...

Sunday January 16, 2011 Desperate employers paying high prices for temporary maids Stories by MUGUTAN VANAR, P. ARUNA and REENA NATHAN PETALING JAYA: Maid agencies are cashing in on the shortage of domestic helpers in the...

Sunday January 16, 2011 Agencies making a killing using illegal temps KUALA LUMPUR: With legitimate domestic workers getting very scarce, illegal ones are becoming a precious, and costly, alternative. The going rate for an illegal temporary maid...

Friday January 14, 2011 Boy, 16, held for extortion BALIK PULAU: A 16-year-old school dropout, a member of a gang that demanded RM500 protection money from business operators in Batu Maung and Bayan Lepas, has been arrested. Balik Pulau Deputy...

Thursday January 13, 2011 China hotel fire kills 10, 4 others hospitalised BEIJING (AP) - China's state news agency reports 10 people have been killed in a hotel fire in the central province of Hunan. Xinhua News Agency says the fire broke out...

The daily also reported about two young boys who lured a nine-year-old girl to a deserted alley in Ampang and took turns to rape her. The alleged rapists, aged 10 and 14, had earlier followed her from a nearby shopping mall to a restaurant but she did not suspect they would harm her...

Monday January 10, 2011 Pub brawl turns into murder KOTA KINABALU: A pub brawl turned into murder when a 22-year-old was stabbed to death in a fight that spilled over to the street at Inanam township here. The victim, Herman Abdul Rahman, was...

Published: Sunday January 9, 2011 MYT 6:12:00 PM Fire destroys shops and stalls in Tawau By MUGUNTAN VANAR KOTA KINABALU: About 50 hawkers lost their businesses when a fire destroyed their wooden shops and stalls in the Sabah east...

Published: Friday January 7, 2011 MYT 1:53:00 PM There's a dead lizard in the sauce! ALOR SETAR: An eatery owner in Langgar town, near here, was shocked to see what she claimed was a dead house lizard in a bottle of sauce which was to be used for...

Classes cancelled at Nebraska school after shooting OMAHA | Thu Jan 6, 2011 12:11pm EST OMAHA (Reuters) - Classes were canceled on Thursday at Millard South High where a suspended student shot and mortally wounded assistant principal Vicki Kaspar before fleeing and...

Wednesday January 5, 2011 Bogus cop’s two-year crime spree ends AMPANG: Police nabbed a 31-year-old man who had tarnished their image by impersonating a cop while committing crime over the last two years. He was arrested minutes after he and his...

Published: Saturday January 1, 2011 MYT 3:39:00 PM Johor Immigration Dept detains 65 illegal immigrants in Ops Sapu JOHOR BAHARU: The Johor Immigration Department arrested 65 illegal immigrants from Cambodia in an operation dubbed 'Ops Sapu' in...