Kuala Lumpur, July 14 : Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Rahim Bakri has told his country’s Parliament that immigration officials had never seized the passport of Hindraf leader P. Waythamoorthy, although there were orders to do so.

Bakri said the Hindraf chairman, who was reported to be in the United Kingdom, is still free to travel around.

“We had received orders to cancel his passport but no actions have been taken so far and Waythamoorthy still has his passport overseas, and moves around as a valid Malaysian passport holder,” The Star quoted Bakri, as saying while replying to a supplementary question by Chua Tian Chang of the PKR-Batu.

Kuala Lumpur, July 14 : Malaysian government has said that the passport of Hindraf chairman P.

Singapore - A wholly-owned unit of Singapore's DBS Bank and the Kuwait Finance House have been granted licences to set up Islamic fund management operations in Malaysia, a statement said on Monday.

DBS Asset Management's chief executive officer Deborah Ho said the new entity will structure and distribute Islamic asset management products across Asia "via synergies with DBS and DBS' Islamic Bank of Asia."

Malaysia's Securities Commission granted approval to the two in addition to CIMB-Principal Islamic Asset Management.

"The approval of these three companies will play a catalytic role in the internationalization of our Islamic capital market," The Business Times quoted commission chairman Zarinah Anwar as saying.

Kuala Lumpur  -

Kuala Lumpur, July 12 : All hell broke loose at a dinner held to mark the Malaysian Indian Congress’s (MIC) annual general meeting, when some of the delegates decided to walk out earlier than scheduled.

It was the first time that such an incident had happened, The Star reported.

Furious at this development at the Putra World Trade Centre, a seemingly annoyed MIC President S. Samy Vellu left the function at 9.55 p. m.

Earlier, Malaysia’s former works minister tried to cajole the delegates into staying back.

“Please come back and have your dinner. We spent so much of money organising the dinner,” he told them.

Later, Samy Vellu gave a short speech and even sang a song.