Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian mortuary refused to release the body of a 38-year-old Indonesian man because of a spat between his wives over his burial, a news report said Wednesday.

Muslam Sukarno, a resident of the northern state of Pahang, died after his car plunged into a ravine Tuesday morning, the News Straits Times reported.

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 16 : Movie producers in Malaysia made a startling discovery that there is a new kind of piracy going around which they had not been aware off.

The piracy they found was being conducted by YouTube, which is releasing all new movies through its site and making off with their profit.

"YouTube is eating into our profits," New Straits Times Online quoted film producer David Teo as saying.

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 16 : the Malaysian Human Resources Ministry is considering a temporary freeze on the recruitment of foreign workers to assist natives displaced from work.

A move that may hit aspiring Indian workers that constitutes a large percentage of the foreign work force in that country.

Director-General of Labour Ministry Abdul Rahim has said that this step is one of the options being studied to assist Malaysians displaced from work.

As of last month, 28,000 jobless Malaysians had registered with the Labour Department. The department found jobs for 6,000 of them, the NST Online reported.

Kuala Lumpur  - Malaysia's law minister on Tuesday introduced a witness protection programme in Parliament as part of efforts to protect whistle-blowers in corruption and criminal cases.

Nazri Abdul Aziz presented the proposed legislation, which would provide accommodation and a new identity to those accepted as witnesses.

Under the bill, the attorney general would approve applications by whistle-blowers who have to meet an exhaustive list of criteria, including passing physical and mental examinations.

Nazri also said that informers would be allowed to give evidence from the dock with their faces covered while children could testify from a separate room.

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 15 : Two Malaysian children with heart ailments are recuperating well after undergoing successful surgeries at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Bangalore on December 11.

The kids, Ang Xiao Xuan, 3, from Penang and Maisaiyida Mohmad Afandi, 6, of Johor, would most probably return home in two weeks.

And another 10-year-old patient, Muhammad Khairul Shahrizat from Pekan, Pahang, will be undergoing surgery tomorrow (Dec 16).