News Topic - Malaysia

Malaysian dam project threatens world heritage park: activists
AFP - Malaysia's plan to build a series of hydroelectric dams on Borneo island threatens the World Heritage status of a key national park, environmentalists warned Wednesday.
Yahoo!  –  Jul 23, 2008 03:27 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Lyric Labs To Enter Malaysia With Low Cost Services
A new portal www.lyriclabs.com. to offer Translation Services.
1888PressRelease.com  –  Jul 23, 2008 12:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Kaspersky Lab's Malaysian Web Site Hacked
Russian security company Kaspersky Lab's Web site for Malaysia was defaced on Saturday along with one of its online shopping...
PC World  –  Jul 21, 2008 7:07 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Wife of Malaysia opposition leader accused of sodomy speaks out
The wife of Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, said she fears for his life after he was arrested for sodomy, an allegation the couple dismiss as a crude conspiracy.
Telegraph.co.uk  –  Jul 21, 2008 2:11 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Malaysia's Anwar vows to topple govt
AFP - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Monday vowed to topple the prime minister despite what he called attempts to "demonise and intimidate" him.
Yahoo!  –  Jul 21, 2008 2:05 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Netbytes: Girl Power blogger takes Singapore by storm
Blogging looked like fulfilling Andy Warhol's prophecy that everyone would get their 15 minutes of fame. Xiaxue, however, has been famous for five years, and has turned into a full-time professional blogger, attracting around 300,000 visitors per month. Singapore's National Library Board has added her to its electronic archives. She may have passed her peak - marked by her Best Asian Weblog award in the 2005 Bloggies - but there's no sign of this lippy former student/waitress going away. Xiaxue ("snowing") has described herself as "just a normal girl who got rather lucky". Her real name is Zheng Yan Yan, aka Wendy Cheng, and she's now 24. She started blogging in April 2003, and could easily have sunk without trace. Instead, she became, briefly, a celebrity blogger for The Straits Times newspaper, a Maxim columnist, and co-starred in a sort of reality TV series, Girls Out Loud. She now does a fortnightly series, Xiaxue's Guide To Life, which runs on Munkysuperstar's web-based TV channel, clicknetwork.tv. There are quite a few on YouTube. If you want to know about blinging your long nails with crystals, getting a tongue piercing, losing weight, cooking live crabs, shopping for slutty clothes or fitting out your totally pink Princess Room on the cheap, Xiaxue is your girl. She'd be an ideal Big Brother contestant. Part of Xiaxue's appeal is that she's offensive, by Singapore standards. "Singaporean (Chinese) guys," she wrote, "like girls who keep quiet and nods in agreement to everything they say, rather than a girl who speaks up for her own opinions. They like girls who are weak, diminutive and vulnerable, not girls who are strong and can protect themselves." They must also dress modestly and be virgins. Xiaxue - perhaps corrupted by reading California-based Sweet Valley High books - is the opposite of this Singaporean ideal. She's bitchy, swears, wears "chio" (pretty but provocative) clothes, writes in intimate detail about things like panty liners, and flaunts her American boyfriend, Mike. It provokes hundreds of comments. She also generates controversy by attacking other bloggers. One famous post dealt with the Top Seven Most Disgusting Bloggers in Singapore, including Xiaxue. She attacked herself for being a fake, short, fat and ugly. "She is so hao lian [arrogant] of her stupid angmoh [caucasian monkey] boyfriend," she wrote. "SPG!" Sarong Party Girl: the ultimate insult. Some of Xiaxue's posts are labelled as advertorials: she's paid to write about products, review restaurants etc, and she also got a free "nose job". Since she's always writing about the things she does and the products she buys, these aren't much different from her usual slang-packed, heavily illustrated (and skilfully photoshopped) posts. You can take it or leave it. As you'd expect, most of Xiaxue's readers - around 70% - live in Singapore or Malaysia. For the rest of us, she's a virtual tourist spot, providing an uncensored, unmediated and somewhat voyeuristic peek into a different society. Every nation should have its own Xiaxue, and perhaps they do. We just don't know about them.Related StoriesEditorial: High waterOnline POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know itEmily Bell: If Google should falter, how many others will follow?Solve IT: How can I chat to people with different Instant Messenger applications?Paul Lewis on why Bluetooth technology is raising fears about privacy
The Guardian  –  Jul 21, 2008 1:37 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Drogba left by traveling Blues
Didier Drogba has not traveled with the Chelsea squad for their pre-season tour of China and Malaysia.
Fox Sports  –  Jul 21, 2008 08:01 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Malaysia's police chief sues Anwar for defamation: lawyer
AFP - Malaysia's police chief Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for accusing him of manipulating evidence, the officer's lawyer said.
Yahoo!  –  Jul 21, 2008 07:52 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Top in Email Hosting and Still Doing More
1.com.my has been recognized and ranked as the top service provider for email hosting in Malaysia and other South East Asian countries. [PR.com - July 21, 2008]
PR.com  –  Jul 21, 2008 07:06 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Chelsea fly to China with Lampard but not Drogba
The uncertainty surrounding Frank Lampard's immediate future at Chelsea will drag into next month after the England midfielder was included in the club's squad which departed yesterday for a two-week pre-season tour of China, Malaysia and Russia
The Guardian  –  Jul 21, 2008 12:06 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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