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The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 A teacher dated a man for three years before things went sour. He then threatened to post her nude photos and videos online if she did not pay him RM50,000 (S$20,000). Ms Tan, 30, knew Mr Lai, 34, through mutual friends. A few months into...

Arrested Chinese nationals are escorted by Sri Lankan police as they are taken to a remand prison. AFP Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 COLOMBO - Police in Sri Lanka arrested at least 114 Chinese nationals over an alleged Internet currency fraud, during a string of raids in and around Colombo...

Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 The Star/Asia News Network MALACCA, Malaysia - A 16-year-old girl has complained about a driving school instructor who apparently demanded for two packets of cigarettes as an “incentive” for him to convince the Road Transport Department to pass her motorcycle test...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 Harian Metro reported that a single mother of three who had been a mistress to a civil servant for nearly 11 years has had enough after realising he was merely using her. The woman, known only as Ros, in her 40s, also admitted to having...

AFP Friday, Dec 21, 2012 NEW DELHI - India's government, facing swelling protests over the gang-rape of a female student on a bus, vowed on Friday to press for life sentences for her six attackers and promised stricter policing. Home Secretary R.K. Singh also offered state assistance...

AFP Friday, Dec 21, 2012 PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court warned Friday that it did not have money to pay hundreds of workers from next month because of a lack of new donor pledges. It said the funding crunch would affect 300 Cambodian employees...

Kiatisak Chua, Kathleen Ann Kili and Edmund Khoo | The Star/ANN | Sat Dec 22 2012 Tan said his family members prepared the tang yuen at home instead of buying it. George Town, December 22, 2012 For the Tans, the focus is on family every Winter Solstice Festival. "The tang yuen...

By Edmund Ngo and Elween Loke The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 IPOH: Perak Speaker Datuk R. Ganesan has rubbished an allegation by two Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen implicating him in a CD with a lewd picture on its cover. Ganesan said he would lodge a police report...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 PETALING JAYA: 'Tis the season for giving, but many charity homes are just not getting enough. Traditionally, Malaysians have been known to be more charitable during the festive seasons but this year, it seems that the giving has trickled...

By Yong Yen Nie The Straits Times Friday, Dec 21, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - In Malaysia, those under 16 years of age cannot drink or drive. But marry? Increasingly, it seems, yes. Those under 16 can apply, along with their parents, to Islamic courts for consent to marry, and some states are...

INSENSITIVE TODAY, OK TOMORROW? The Parents TV Council praised the response of the entertainment industry this week, but said it shouldn't be confined to the immediate aftermath of such tragedies. "If a television network changes its programming because of content that could be insensitive...

Reuters Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 LOS ANGELES - The multi-billion-dollar videogame industry came under scrutiny on Wednesday after Hollywood canceled, postponed or played down a slew of movies and TV shows with violent content in the wake of last week's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school...

The Star/Asia News Network Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 MALAYSIA - It is known as the street that never sleeps. And for all the wrong reasons. Because of the proliferation of gambling outlets, businesses along the same street, both legal and illegal, operate non-stop to cater to the demands of...

The Star/Asia News Network Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 GEORGE TOWN - Some video games arcades in Penang are doubling as mini casinos where punters can try their luck on huge gambling slot machines. One, in Bandar Baru Air Itam here, looks just like any other video games arcade as children...

Abe to appoint cabinet Dec 26 The Yomiuri Shimbun/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 TOKYO - Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe took steps toward forming his own cabinet Monday, a day after the party won 294 seats in a landslide victory in the House of Representatives...

By Regina Lee The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 PETALING JAYA - Mixed martial arts fighter Ray Elbe is used to being kicked and punched for a living but nothing prepared him for one of the most excruciating injuries of his life "fracturing" his penis. The 30-year-old...

Falling out over 'khalwat' By Syed Azhar The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 KOTA BARU - Kelantan PAS is turning on its non-Muslim supporters, accusing them of undermining the party's Islamic stand with their criticisms of the recent action against non-Muslims. But the National...

The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 MALAYSIA - A 16-year-old girl in Johor Baru is "offering" herself to potential customers through a social networking site, reported China Press. The "bidding" by interested parties has so far soared from RM800(S$318.60) to RM15,000 since...

The Star/Asia News Network Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - When his Vietnamese girlfriend gave birth to his son, contractor Ting Boon Leong married her. That was five months ago, and today, the 38-year-old father is worried sick as his 25-year-old wife, Nguyen Thi Phuong, has taken...

New Straits Times Monday, Dec 17, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - A 27-year-old engineer survived with minor injuries after falling 100 metres into a ravine during a hiking trip with his friends at Bukit Tabur in Taman Melawati here yesterday. Chan Wing Sing, who is from Taman Minang, Cheras...