Kuala Lumpur - A top Malaysian tourism official has been charged with corruption, the third senior bureaucrat in a month to face graft allegations, news reports said Thursday.

Mirza Mohammad Taiyab, head of Malaysia's Tourism Promotion Board, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to accepting free dental treatment worth almost 14,000 ringgit (4,200 dollars), from a company that he allegedly gave contracts to, the Star daily reported.

Banting (Malaysia), Aug 14: Malaysian Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has been urged to intervene in the case of the teacher who used racial slurs on students at a secondary school here.

Malaysian Indian Congress president S. Samy Vellu said that the party and the community could not accept that the 35-year-old teacher who was let off lightly.

It was reported that the teacher was transferred to a school nearer her house. The transfer letter stated that it was done to ensure her security.

Kuala Lumpur  - Malaysia's IT research company Mimos is to begin joint research with Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum in efforts to tackle cybercrime, a news report said Tuesday.

Both parties had recently signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct joint research into a hardware that could block security invasions on the internet, The Star newspaper's online news portal said.

"Phishing, pharming, virus attacks and hacking of systems belonging to companies is no longer done for fun or curiosity but is now big business, as there is money to made from such invasions," Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin, head of Mimos' Information Security Cluster, was quoted as saying.

Putrajaya, Aug 9 : Foreign Minister Dr. Rais Yatim has asked the United States to stay out of Malaysia’s internal affairs, reminding Washington to refrain from commenting on how the country handles its legal affairs.

Even the UN Secretary-General has not said anything on how Malaysia handles its legal matters, Dr. Rais said.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian restaurant operator QSR Brands Bhd has obtained rights to operate outlets of the fast-food chain Pizza Hut in Cambodia, a news report said Friday.

The company, which opened the first KFC fast-food chicken outlet in Cambodia on March 2, obtained approval from the international restaurant company Yum Restaurants Asia Pte Ltd to open the Pizza Huts, The Edge Daily, a Malaysian financial newspaper, reported.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Friday that he was confident of leading the opposition to take over the government by mid-September, despite having to fight off fresh sodomy charges.

Anwar, who was charged Thursday with sodomizing a former male aide, said an "adequate number" of government lawmakers have pledged to cross over once he re-enters parliament through a by-election at the end of the month.