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The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities are looking into claims that a mobile storage depot off Labuan island is being used by Iran to export its crude oil, thus evading international sanctions. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency...

The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 PETALING JAYA, Malaysia - Passengers on board a Malaysia Airlines flight from Chennai to Kuala Lumpur had a scare when the plane developed a technical glitch and had to be diverted to Penang. Flight MH181 departed for KLIA at 1.55am...

The New Paper Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 THE crowd has been overwhelming ever since a 5.5m-tall statue was unveiled last week at the God of Wealth Temple in Paya Terubong in Penang. The statue is believed to be the tallest in the Malaysian state. But visitors to the temple are not here for the...

MCMC asks Google to remove anti-Islam YouTube clips The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 PETALING JAYA, Malaysia - Leading Internet search engine Google has received an official complaint from Malaysia and a request to remove clips of the controversial anti-Islam film The...

The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 HULU TERENGGANU, Malaysia - The Home Ministry has taken safety measures to protect parties that have become targets of angry Muslims over a film that insulted Prophet Muhammad, including patrolling the US embassy. Minister Datuk Seri...

By LEE YEN MUN The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Aug 26, 2012 PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Umno Youth, which is embroiled in a controversy over an allegedly seditious Facebook message, has identified several suspects responsible. Its chief Khairy Jamaluddin said the names surfaced after...

By DESIREE TRESA GASPER The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Aug 26, 2012 JOHOR BARU, Malaysia - A housewife was slashed by two thieves who posed as Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) officials and entered her house on the pretext of wanting to check her electricity meter. T. Sundaravadivu, 39, who...

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By M. Sivanantha Sharma The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 BUTTERWORTH, Malaysia - A single mother with three children is living in fear of nine loan sharks after she borrowed about RM90,000 (S$36,846) to improve her furniture business. The 46-year-old woman, who only wanted...

The China Post/Asia News Network Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 Two men were arrested yesterday for allegedly spreading sexual photographs of Justin Lee and several female celebrities on the Internet. The police seized their computers for future investigations and cautioned the public not to...

"There are many instances of people with ordinary illness, or light cases of spirit possession, consulting mediums and eventually being cured," he says. Chin, a metaphysician and feng shui master, describes a medium as the physical mouthpiece of spirits or "beings of another dimension". If the...

By Christina Chin The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 Consulting mediums and undergoing exorcism rituals are not confined to the old. With the start of the Hungry Ghosts Festival, even young Chinese professionals are making a beeline for talismans to ward off spirits. The...

The Star/Asia News Network Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 Individuals who generally exhibit dependent or compliant personality disorders need to be dealt with by a professional, not a religious leader or medium, according to an expert on Religious and Cultural Studies. Xiao En Cultural Endowment...

The Star/Asia News Network Friday, Aug 03, 2012 KUALA TERENGGANU - Six female students of a school in Kemaman have claimed they were molested repeatedly by a hostel warden for three months. The incidents, which started from May until July, was committed by a 29-year-old man. It is...

AFP Friday, Aug 03, 2012 SEOUL - A South Korean doctor has admitted dumping the body of a patient after he accidentally killed her by administering a sedative, police said Friday. Police said they are seeking a formal arrest warrant for the 45-year-old doctor, surnamed Kim, who practises...

The New Paper Saturday, Aug 04, 2012 She lured them to her house with promises of sex after meeting them in a pub. But Charlotte Collinge, 45, had very different plans for the two men when they reached her home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK, on Oct 8 last year. She told Stephen...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Jul 14, 2012 JOHOR BARU - The foreign woman who claimed that she was sexually abused by her employer had also not been paid her salary for five months. Although she was asked to sign a voucher every month to indicate receipt of her salary, no money...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Jul 14, 2012 A syndicate has been using photographs of pretty girls downloaded from their Facebook pages to snare men looking for prostitutes, Sin Chew Daily reported. It reported that the syndicate would download the photographs of the Asian girls...

The Star/Asia News Network Saturday, Jul 14, 2012 Two young men who were hooked on booze and women murdered their friend's mother to steal gold and cash from her house in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to pay for a prostitute, reported Makkal Osai. Police who arrested P. Suresh, 26, and V...

AFP Saturday, Jul 14, 2012 MIAMI - A US federal judge sentenced an Uzbek man to more than 15 years in prison Friday on terror and weapons charges for threatening to kill US President Barack Obama, US prosecutors said. Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in...