Kuala Lumpur, Dec 29 : Malaysia and India will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to streamline the recruitment and welfare of workers in the two countries.
Malaysia's Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam said the MoU is expected to be signed during his meeting with India's Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi in New Delhi on January 3.
The agreement is expected to lead to smoother management of labour and also iron out problems faced by Indian workers in Malaysia and Malaysian workers in India, The Star quoted him, as saying.
London, Dec 29: An inquiry has been launched after a British citizen of Pakistani origin flew out of the UK on his sister's passport.
Kasim Raja, 26, had his travel documents checked twice by staff at Birmingham International Airport, but they did not notice the picture and details were that of his sister Samina, 22.
He flew to Islamabad, but was stopped by airport security there last weekend, held for two hours then deported, The Sun reported.
Property developer Raja, of Moseley, Birmingham, said: "I was in a rush and grabbed what I thought was my passport as I left home. It doesn't say much for airport security - I don't look anything like my sister. I flew for 7½ hours then had to fly home."
Manila - A member of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's cabinet was in hot water on Monday after a businessman accused him and his two sons of beating him and his teenage son in a brawl at a golf course.
Arroyo ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the accusations of businessman Delfin Dela Paz against Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman.
Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said Arroyo also directed the DOJ to file appropriate charges "against those responsible for any violation of law."
Washington - The number of murders committed in the US by black teenagers increased 34 per cent between 2000 and 2007, while those committed by whites had barely changed, a report to be released Monday by Northeastern University in Boston said.
In 2000, 539 white and 851 black youths between age 14 to 17 committed murder, according to a story about the report in the New York Times. By 2007, the number of murders by blacks had risen to 1,142 while those committed by whites had fallen slightly, to 537.
Kampala - The Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has massacred 45 people in a church in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda's government-backed New Vision newspaper reported Monday.
The newspaper quoted witnesses as saying the LRA used machetes, swords and clubs to kill the people - amongst them women and children - who had taken refuge in a Catholic church near the border with the Central African Republic.
The LRA is now accused of killing around 90 people in a series of attacks over the Christmas period.
Military officials said they had killed 13 of the LRA guerrillas involved in the church attack and were pursuing the rest of the group.
Kuala Lumpur, Dec 29 : Malaysia and India will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to streamline the recruitment and welfare of workers in the two countries.
Manila - A member of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's cabinet was in hot water on Monday after a businessman accused him and his two sons of beating him and his teenage son in a brawl at a golf course.
Washington - The number of murders committed in the US by black teenagers increased 34 per cent between 2000 and 2007, while those committed by whites had barely changed, a report to be released Monday by Northeastern University in Boston said.
