Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian opposition lawmaker resigned Tuesday in response to a scandal which erupted after her nude photos, believed to be taken without her consent while she was sleeping, were circulated widely via cell phone.

The People's Justice Party, led by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, decided Tuesday to accept Elizabeth Wong's resignation as assemblyman for the central Selangor state.

Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 17: About 160 new Tamil schools will be built across Malaysia, while 50 or 60 more which are facing problems will be refurbished within a year, The Star reports.

Human Resources Minister and MIC secretary-general S. Subramaniam said this after attending a dinner for the Yong Peng Tamil School building fund organised by the party's Yong Peng division.

"The MIC will always act as the guardian of Tamil schools and will look into solving problems faced by them," Dr Subramaniam said.

He called on the Indian community to cast aside differences and work towards progress for the community because a united voice could be heard louder.

Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 17: Former UN Under Secretary General and well known writer Shashi Tharoor has given the thumbs up to Danny Boyle's movie "Slumdog Millionaire", saying that for the first time in Hollywood and world cinema history, Indian citizens are in contention for two Oscars - one for best song and for A. R. Rahman''s musical score.

He believes that it is only right that Indians should celebrate the achievement, as they haven''t often had much to root for at the Oscars, Hollywood''s annual celebration of cinematic success.

Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian policewoman who kept hearing the sound of a crying baby made a shocking discovery when she found a five-day old baby stuffed in her Indonesian maid's cupboard drawer, news reports said Tuesday.

The woman, a senior police officer from the northern Perlis state, found the crying baby early Sunday but her maid initially denied the child was hers.

However, on Monday, the 22-year old Indonesian maid known only as Yanti, admitted to giving birth to the baby girl on Thursday in her toilet.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian marine police detained seven suspected Indonesian pirates after a high-speed shootout Monday, a piracy watchdog group said.

The suspects, travelling in a speedboat and armed with pistols, machetes and hand grenades, were nabbed after a 30-minute chase, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) confirmed.

Marine police from Malaysia's southern region had waited in ambush for the suspects early Monday, following information and assistance from several shipping companies.

Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 16 : HINDRAF leader and Internal Security Act detainee P. Uthayakumar is in danger of losing his leg, said his wife, who has lodged a police report against the Taiping Hospital in the Kamunting detention center.

According to The Star, S. Indradevi, 38, claimed that Uthayakumar was not given proper medical treatment and could lose his leg due to diabetic gangrene.

"When I visited him yesterday, I was shocked to see his toe swollen and it had turned black. I fear his leg might need to be amputated as it could be diabetic gangrene," she said after lodging the report at the Brickfields police headquarters here yesterday.