Kuala Lumpur - A two-year-old boy suffered severe burns on his body after he tripped and fell into a large pot of piping hot curry, a news report said Tuesday.

Mohamad Adib Alif Asrie was walking backwards outside a shop in the northern Kedah state when he tripped and fell into the pot of freshly-cooked beef curry, the Star daily reported.

Mohamad Adib's screams of pain alerted his parents who were cooking nearby, and he was immediately sent to a nearby hospital.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Monday told a crowd of more than 20,000 that his promises of toppling the government would very soon be a reality, claiming that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has already been given evidence of the impending takeover.

Anwar was speaking to the throng of demonstrators who had gathered at a stadium in the central Selangor state to call for the abolishment of a draconian security law.

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.