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Gandhi, Obama, Osama share frame in the name of art

Gandhi, Obama, Osama share frame in the name of artKuala Lumpur, Apr. 13 : Mahatma Gandhi, US President Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have shared space on a painting by Malaysia's contemporary artist Ahmad Fuad Osman.

The acrylic piece entitled "To Whom It May Concern" features the spectral faces of the stark philosophical opposites, with others such as Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Benito Mussolini, Martin Luther King and Joseph Stalin, surrounded by a crowd who are video recording them.

Bus crash kills six in central Malaysia

Bus crash kills six in central Malaysia Kuala Lumpur - Six peopl

Malaysian girl accuses dentist of molesting her

Malaysian girl accuses dentist of molesting herKuala Lumpur - A Malaysian teenage girl has lodged a report against a dentist, claiming that he had molested her during a dental appointment, a news report said Monday. The dentist, a local political leader in his 50s, allegedly took advantage of the girl and molested her while they were alone in the treatment room of his clinic in the southern state of Johor.

The victim left the clinic and informed her parents of the incident before lodging a police report, the Star daily reported.

MIC plans to pull out of Malaysian Government

MIC plans to pull out of Malaysian GovernmentKuala Lumpur, Apr. 12 : The Malaysian Indian Congress may withdraw its lone cabinet minister and two deputy ministers from the central Government as a protest measure against ignorance of Indian community.

According to a senior party official, the proposal was drawn up at a meeting of top party officials on Friday.

Malaysia's new cabinet sworn in

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib RazakKuala Lumpur - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's new cabinet of 28 ministers and 40 deputy ministers was sworn in Friday before Malaysia's king at the royal palace. The new cabinet is slightly smaller than the previous 31 ministers under Najib's predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and consists of many first timers.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who was also appointed as the education minister, led the newly appointed ministers and deputy ministers in taking their oaths of office before King Mizan Zainal Abidin, the official Bernama news agency reported.

Malaysian father gets 10 years, six lashes for raping stepdaughter

Malaysian father gets 10 years, six lashes for raping stepdaughterKuala Lumpur - A Malaysian man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and six lashes of the cane after he was found guilty of raping his then-14-year-old stepdaughter, news reports said Friday. The 47-year-old driver for the government had pleaded guilty to abusing the girl in July 2006 at their home in the northern state of Perak.

After sending the girl's younger siblings out to buy sweets while their mother was away at work, the man was accused of barging into the girl's locked room, overpowering her and raping her.

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