Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian airport police have detained an Indian national after they found 46 bags of the drug ketamine hidden inside a television set, a news report said Thursday.
The 32-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after customs officers at Kuching International Airport in Malaysia's eastern state of Sarawak discovered drugs during a routine inspection, department director Rusmani Abdul Sukur said.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar 19: A Malaysian Indian Congress leader has said there is no need to rebrand or rename Little India in Klang as it is already a well-known tourism icon.
Selangor Malaysian Indian Congress chairman G. Palanivel said on Wednesday that “the move to change its name will erase the area’s identity.”
He said the MIC is against the Klang Municipal Council’s plan to rename the area Medan Kelana, and appealed to Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah of Selangor to intervene.
Palanivel was commenting on reports that the Klang municipality would soon remove two signboards with the name ‘Little India’ and replace them with Medan Kelana.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia hopes to cut the number of foreign workers by more than 200,000 by next year to ease the increasing unemployment rate among locals, a news report said Tuesday.
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar told Parliament the government set a new goal of 1.8 million foreign workers by 2010, from the 2.06 migrant workers currently in the country.
"We have managed to reduce the number of foreign workers by some 60,000 since last March.
Kuala Lumpur - A prominent Malaysian lawmaker was charged with sedition Tuesday for allegedly insulting one of the country's nine royal rulers.
Karpal Singh, chairman of the Democratic Action Party, pleaded not guilty to the charge of insulting Sultan Azlan Shah of the northern Perak state on February 6.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian customs police foiled an attempt to smuggle in 4 million ringgit (1.1 million dollars) of the psychotropic drug nimetazepam, better known as Eramin 5, at the cargo area of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, news reports said Tuesday.
Customs officers had become suspicious when a shipment of 10 computer central processing units, or CPUs, arrived from Taiwan weighing 148 kilograms, when the weight of a single unit is normally less than 5 kilograms, said department director general Mohamed Khalid Yusof.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's Parliament suspended a prominent opposition lawmaker for one year Monday after he accused the deputy prime minister of being connected with the murder of a Mongolian woman.
Gobind Singh Deo, a lawyer by profession, caused an uproar in parliament on Thursday when he demanded that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak respond to allegations of his involvement in the 2006 murder of the 28-year old woman.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian airport police have detained an Indian national after they found 46 bags of the drug ketamine hidden inside a television set, a news report said Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia hopes to cut the number of foreign workers by more than 200,000 by next year to ease the increasing unemployment rate among locals, a news report said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur - A prominent Malaysian lawmaker was charged with sedition Tuesday for allegedly insulting one of the country's nine royal rulers.
