Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's High Court has sentenced two Indonesian men to hang after they were found guilty of trafficking drugs six years ago, a news report said Friday.

Mohamad Idris and Jainudin, both 32, had pleaded not guilty to the charge of carrying 5,680 grams of cannabis in the capital Kuala Lumpur in September 2002.

Police had caught the two men with the drugs hidden in a bag, the official Bernama news agency said.

Singapore - Three white tigers at the Singapore Zoo attacked and killed a Malaysian worker Thursday, the zoo said.

Nordin Bin Montong, 32, jumped into the moat at the white tiger exhibit and was attacked by the three animals, the zoo said. Zookeepers distracted the tigers from the victim and pulled him out of the enclosure.

"While waiting for the ambulance, our vets attended to him," the zoo said in a statement.

However, "the worker tragically succumbed to his wounds," assistant director Biswajit Guha said.

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 13: A Malaysian High Court yesterday dismissed the third bail application of Hindraf lawyer M. Manoharan, of India origin, to free himself from detention under the Internal Security Act.

Earlier, Manoharan, along with four other Hindraf leaders, R. Kengadharan, 41, P. Uthayakumar, 48, V. Ganabatirau, 35, and Hindraf coordinator K. Vasantha Kumar, 35, had filed two applications at the Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh High Court after their detention last year. But, both the applications were dismissed by the High Court and the Federal Court this year.

Satyam Computer Services, the fourth largest IT solutions and service provider, has acquired the software development centre of Motorola in Malaysia.

Under the arrangement, Motorola will divest from its software development centre in Cyberjaya, subsequently all 128 employees – along with the unit’s assets – will shift to Satyam.

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 10 : Tomboys in Malaysia have denounced the fatwa forbidding their tomboyish behaviour, insisting that it will not change their lifestyle.

Malaysia’s top Islamic body had issued an edict by the National Fatwa Council banning tomboys, saying that girls who act unlady-like violate the tenets of Islam.

An increasing number of Malaysian girls behave like tomboys, and some of them engage in homosexuality.

Under the edict girls cannot sport short hair and dress, walk and act like boys.

A tomboy named Win sneered away from the edict, and said that it would not affect their lifestyle.

Kuala Lumpur  - A self-employed electrician was killed while his sibling and an employee were seriously injured when their illegally modified natural gas vehicle (NGV) exploded, a news report said Sunday.

Mohamad Hilmi Ishak, 25, was believed to have stopped at a local petrol station in the southern state of Malacca to refuel, while his brother, Rosli Ishak, 30, and their worker, Razali Zin, 31, were waiting in vehicle, when the explosion occurred on Friday, the News Straits Times newspaper said.

Investigations revealed that Hilmi had modified a cooking gas cylinder into a natural gas kit for their van and placed the tank beneath the driver's seat, covered by a sheet of canvas.