Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's opposition alliance on Monday held a massive rally protesting the detention of an opposition lawmaker and a popular blogger under a security law which allows for indefinite detention without trial.

Police on Friday detained opposition politician Teresa Kok and anti-government blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin under the Internal Security Act (ISA), a law drafted almost
60 years ago under British colonial rule to fight a communist insurgency.

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian minister resigned Monday following his outspoken criticism of the government's use of a draconian security law to stifle political opposition.

In a rare show of defiance against Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Zaid Ibrahim, minister responsible for legal matters, stepped down as an act of protest, sources were quoted as saying by the Malaysia Star newspaper.

Zaid was unavailable for comment.

On Friday, the government detained three people - an opposition lawmaker, a journalist and an anti-government internet blogger - under the Internal Security Act which allows indefinite detention without trial.

Kuala Lumpur, Sept.

Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 13: A 21-year-old Indian national is facing a death sentence here for carrying drugs in the false bottom of his aluminium suitcase.

Alarm bells went off for customs officers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang after they emptied the bag and found a false bottom in which five kg of ketamine powder worth RM175,000 were hidden.

The New Strait Times said that Customs deputy director-general Mardina Alwi and her officers stopped the man after they noted that the suitcase he was carrying seemed heavy and that he was having difficulty managing it.

Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 13 : The Malaysian Government has reportedly agreed to work out a mechanism to enable the Indian community to purchase shares.

The target is to allow three per cent Indian equity participation by 2020.

The Tamil Nesan daily and the New Strait Times quoted Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S. Samy Vellu as saying that the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has given his assurances in this regard during their meeting in Putrajaya.

Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 12 : An Indian national, who is serving a sentence for overstaying in Malaysia, has filed an application for contempt of court against an Immigration Department officer and his former employer.

Forty-six-year-old K. Sathiyamoorthy filed the application in the Industrial Court registry on Thursday with the assistance of Malaysian Trades Union Congress industrial relations officer A. Balasubramaniam.