Kuala Lumpur, Feb 25 : Indians sure are having a "rocking" time in the bedroom. A new survey has found that 70 percent of people living in the sub-continent are sexually satisfied.

According to the Asia-Pacific Sexual Health and Overall Wellness survey, by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, India topped the list with respondents saying they were satisfied with their sex lives while Japan reported the lowest sexual satisfaction rate at 10 percent.

Malaysia ranked sixth among 13 countries with two out of three Malaysian men and three out of four women saying they are not happy with their sex lives.

Kuala Lumpur  - Zookeepers in Malaysia's southern Johor state have named two new African lion cubs after US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a news report said Tuesday.

Obama and Hillary, along with another female cub yet to be named, were born in captivity at the Johor Zoo on January 16, zookeeper Mohamad Sham Mahdon Said said.

"Obama the president and Obama the lion cub can both trace their ancestry back to Africa, so there is a definite connection there," Mohamad Sham was quoted as saying by the Star daily.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's housing ministry bemoaned the country's low recycling rate which is currently a dismal 5 per cent, far lower than its neighbouring South-east Asian neighbours, official news reports said Monday.

Lau Hoi Chew, deputy housing minister, said the government hoped to dramatically increase the rate of recycling to 30 per cent by the year 2020.

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian man suspected of snatching a woman's bag was almost beaten to death by an angry mob that attacked him with sticks and chairs, a news report said Monday.

The suspect, 29, was accused of snatching the bag and trying to run away late Sunday when he was chased and then beaten by a group of angry passers-by, the Star online news portal said.

A security guard who saw the attack intervened and called the police, who arrived to find the suspect suffering from bruises to his face and a broken arm.

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia has seen 18 deaths so far this year from dengue fever, more than double the number from same period of 2008, the Health Ministry said Friday.

A total of 7,900 people have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus from January 1 to Friday, Health Ministry Director General Ismail Merican was quoted as saying by the Star newspaper.

In 2008, a total of 4,758 cases and seven deaths were recorded in the same period, Merican said.

He added that as of February 14, there had been 37 dengue hotspots that had yet to be brought under control, compared with 39 the previous week.

Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 19 : The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) presidential election will be held on April 12 and nominations will be registered on March 22.

MIC president S. Samy Vellu said the central working committee decided the dates of elections because the president's term is due to end on May 25, The Star reports.

Asked if he would seek re-election, Vellu, who has been president since 1979, replied: "Maybe."

Former MIC vice-president M. Muthupalaniappan had earlier said that he would contest for the top party post.