Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian customs officers seized 2,500 boxes of smuggled frozen cow lungs from Argentina worth 52,000 ringgit (16,300 dollars), a news report said Thursday.
A team of customs officers from the northern state of Perak discovered 25 tons of cow lungs inside a 12-meter-long container during a raid last week in the neighbouring state of Penang, department director Dzulkurnain Abdul Rahman said.
"We acted upon a public tip-off and confiscated the container," Dzulkurnain was quoted as saying by the Star online news portal.
He said the cow lungs did not come with valid import permits, adding that a customs agent and a worker from an importing company were also arrested during the operation.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday he will contest in a by-election in a northern constituency formerly represented by his wife in a bid to return to parliament.
Wan Azizah Ismail, who is also president of Anwar's opposition National Justice Party, said she handed in her resignation letter on Thursday as member of parliament for the Permatang Pauh constituency in the northern Penang state.
Wan Azizah and Anwar made the announcement at a packed media conference at their party's headquarters in the central Selangor state.
Anwar, who is the party adviser, has been planning a political comeback since he led a three-party opposition alliance to make major gains during the March 8 general elections.
Kuala Lumpur, July 31: The acting president of the Indian Progressive Front (IPF), Puan Sri Jayashree Pandithan has said that the IPF had no intention of joining Pakatan Rakyat, and that it would always be loyal to Barisan Nasional (BN) and the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Jayashree also said that the IPF would continue to perform the duties and responsibilities to the Indian community in the country.
“We will continue to support him as the leader of the nation and the leader of the ruling Barisan,” staronline. com quoted her as saying in her maiden press conference at the IPF headquarters in Seri Kembangan last evening.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian authorities have unearthed a major scam involving the sale of sub-standard police gear and supplies which has cost the government at least 100 million ringgit (31.3 million dollars), a news report said Thursday.
A police committee conducting random pre-delivery inspections on supplies had discovered that equipment and supplies ranging from bullet-proof vests and anti-riot gear, to police beds, were of sub-standard quality and did not meet safety requirements, said director of the federal police logistics department, Mashuri Zainal.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained two men - an Iranian and Algerian - believed to be leaders of an international drug ring using women to smuggle drugs, reports said Thursday.
Police also seized eight packages of the drug methamphetamine worth 1.1 million ringgit (345,000 dollars) from the duo, who were detained Sunday, said Kuala Lumpur police chief Muhammad Sabtu Osman.
"The suspects, who are believed to be using Malaysia as a drugs transit centre, were detained after police stopped a four-wheel-drive vehicle at the parking area," he was quoted as saying by the official Bernama news agency.
Kuala Lumpur, July 29 : Shopping is indeed a stress-buster for Malaysian women, what with a majority of women in the Southeast Asian country spending on an average RM180 each on shopping in a month, revealed a poll.
The survey conducted by global market research company Synovate on more than 1,000 Malaysian women found that nearly 75 percent of women in Malaysia believe in "retail therapy", saying shopping was therapeutic and a stress-reliever.
These women, in the age group of 15 to 64 years, belonged to all income levels. They were asked on their retail preferences and spending habits for clothing, accessories, skin care products and cosmetics as well as electronic gadgets.
