Kuala Lumpur, Oct 21 : Armed pirates in speedboats have hijacked an Indian dhow with 13 crew members off the northern coast of Somalia, a maritime official has said.
The cargo-laden vessel was en route to Somalia when it was seized over the weekend, said Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 18 : To mark the 300th anniversary of the Guru Granth Sahib, a production house in Malaysia has decided to distribute 10,000 compact discs containing hymns and chants from the Guru Granth Sahib free of cost in the country and in other Southeast Asian countries.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 18 : Even as Malaysian Indians are trying to figure out which channel to use to forward their complaints and suggestions to the Government in the wake of the ban on the HINDRAF, which primarily represents them, there is a view generating that the Government can begin addressing the grievances of the community in a comprehensive rather than a patchwork manner.
Kuala Lumpur - Measuring over 30 centimetres in length, a new stick insect species found in a village in the eastern state of Sabah has been named after a Malaysian man, reports said Saturday.
Officially named Phobaticus Chani, or Chan's Megastick, in the October's issue of the scientific journal Zootaxa by British scientist Philip Bragg, the insect was discovered and sent to the British Museum of Natural History to be studied by Chan Chew Lun, an amateur naturalist.
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian police bomb squad safely detonated a live 430-kilogram bomb that was found on a university campus in the northern state of Perlis, news reports said Friday.
A heavy machinery operator discovered the bomb, believed to have been dropped during World War II, on Thursday, prompting police to block roads leading to the area, the Bernama news agency reported.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police detained 27 protestors after a scuffle broke out during the demolition of several houses in a squatter community, news report said Friday.
The crowd, made up of residents of the squatter colony in the southern state of Johor and social activists, had gathered Thursday at the road leading to the village to protest the demolition of houses there amid a heavy police presence.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 21 : Armed pirates in speedboats have hijacked an Indian dhow with 13 crew members off the northern coast of Somalia, a maritime official has said.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 18 : To mark the 300th anniversary of the Guru Granth Sahib, a production house in Malaysia has decided to distribute 10,000 compact discs containing hymns and chants from the Guru Granth Sahib free of cost in the country and in other Southeast Asian countries.
Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 18 : Even as Malaysian Indians are trying to figure out which channel to use to forward their complaints and suggestions to the Government in the wake of the ban on the HINDRAF, which primarily represents them, there is a view generating that the Government can begin addressing the grievances of the community in a comprehensive rather than a patchwork manner.
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian police bomb squad safely detonated a live 430-kilogram bomb that was found on a university campus in the northern state of Perlis, news reports said Friday.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police detained 27 protestors after a scuffle broke out during the demolition of several houses in a squatter community, news report said Friday.
