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Malaysia Arrests Over 1,400 During Reform Protests

Posted 09.08.2011 | World

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands...

Malaysia School Horror As Man Holds 30 Students, 4 Teachers Hostage

AP | EILEEN NG | Posted 09.06.2011 | World

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A machete-wielding man who took 30 children and four teachers hostage for six hours in a Malaysian kindergarten has die...

'Obedient Wives' Club: Says Good Sex Is A Duty

AP | EILEEN NG | Posted 08.05.2011 | World

RAWANG, Malaysia — As a new bride, 22-year-old Ummu Atirah believes she knows the secret to a blissful marriage: obey her husband and ensure he ...

Bin Laden Files Reveal Idea To Hijack And Blow Up Oil Tankers

AP | By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 07.20.2011 | World

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions h...

Human Rights And Religious Freedom's 'In' Crowd

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. | Posted 07.05.2011 | Religion
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.

Imbalances in representation and lack of diverse perspectives lead to skewed, erratic, and misguided U.S. foreign policies, leave alone the fact that scores of suffering humans are left without voice.

Global Drug Trafficking Highlighted By Fate Of Two Brothers Facing Death

AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 06.25.2011 | World

CULIACAN, Mexico — From age 6, each of the Gonzalez brothers learned to make bricks, trudging like nine little chicks behind their father every ...

Dozens Of 'Gay' Teen Boys Sent To Masculinity Camp In Malaysia

AP | Posted 06.19.2011 | World

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian authorities have sent 66 Muslim schoolboys identified by teachers as effeminate to a four-day camp where they will...

No Need for Villains on the Trade Issue

Ian Fletcher | Posted 06.13.2011 | Business
Ian Fletcher

If there are any powerful people cackling with glee at the misery they're cynically inflicting on the rest of us through free trade, they're probably few and far between. Never attribute to evil what can be adequately explained by ordinary greed.

Bangkok to Singapore on The Eastern and Oriental Express

Johnny Jet | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Johnny Jet

CHECK-IN We were next to track 12, and I wasn't sure what the train looked like, so I asked the porter if the train behind him was the E&O. He laug...

Malaysia Garbles LGBT Lyrics In 'Born This Way'

AP | SEAN YOONG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian radio stations worry some lyrics in Lady Gaga's gay anthem "Born This Way" are on the wrong track, baby. Bro...

WATCH: Fireworks Fail

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

This is why you don't shoot off fireworks in the middle of a residential area. Even if you're not well-versed in basic firework safety tips, you'd thi...

Somali Pirates Face Death Penalty In Malaysia

AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian prosecutors filed charges carrying the death penalty Friday against seven suspected Somali pirates accused of...

Malaysia Valentine's Day Crackdown Targets 'Immoral' Acts Like Casual Sex

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Malaysian lovebirds, take note: as part of nationwide campaign to encourage a sin-free lifestyle, the government is planning a crackdown on "immoral a...

Deforestation In Malaysia Occurring Over 3x Faster Than Rest Of Asia

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

AMSTERDAM — New satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-ri...

Welcome to the Coral Triangle

James Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
James Morgan

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PHOTOS: Painful Hindi Festival Kicks Off

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Thousands of Hindus in both Malaysia and Singapore subjected themselves to painful rituals such as piercing themselves with hooks, skewers and small l...

The Top New Food Travel Destinations For 2011

Endless Simmer | Posted 09.19.2011 | Home
Endless Simmer

At Endless Simmer, we really only travel for one reason -- new things to stuff our faces with! But we're done with Rome and Paris. Here are our 10 fav...

Gorgeous Pictures of Malaysia's Christmas Preparations

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

With a mere 9.1 percent of its population adhering to a Christian-based faith, Malaysia may not seem the most likely place to be getting into the holi...

Adam Lambert: 'Tough Decision' To Obey Malaysia's Anti-Kissing Rules

AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Adam Lambert pledged Tuesday to obey Malaysian government rules that forbid the flamboyant, openly gay glam rocker from kis...

Astoria Characters: The City-Slicker Chicken Farmers

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

Deciding to raise chickens in an apartment that's smaller than a chicken coop isn't something Jules Corkery and Robert McMinn are doing on a whim.

Looking Elsewhere, Not Trusting America

Sami Moubayed | Posted 09.10.2011 | Politics
Sami Moubayed

After 9-11, American intellectuals began asking the question: "Why do they hate us?" A better question for today's world would be: "Why don't they tru...

WATCH: Can Notoriously Destructive Palm Oil Industry Turn Things Around?

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

CNN's Dan Rivers reports on efforts to improve biodiversity on palm oil plantations in Malaysia. Palm oil plantations carry a history of controversy...

Pakistan and the India-US Entente

Aparna Pande | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Aparna Pande

Pakistan's leaders have long portrayed American attempts to build ties with India as a betrayal. And although this desire for parity is not new, it has never benefited them.

Reforming the Rakyat

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Zac Hill

The publication of a single book doesn't guarantee lasting change, of course. But it does demonstrate -- and this is a great leap forward -- that the government is willing to try.

Malaysia Considers Introducing Sex Ed To Combat 'Baby-Dumping'

Yahoo! News | – | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Malaysia said Friday it is considering introducing sex education in schools across the Muslim-majority nation as part of a campa...