Kuala Lumpur, Feb 5 : As was already expected, Malaika Arora Khan’s gyrating hips stole the show at the Zee Bollywood Nite 2012 held in Kuala Lumpur.

The 38-year-old’s revealing outfit and sensual moves, coupled with her super model looks, made it a night to remember for the audience at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre, the Star Online reported.

Backed by four male and four female dancers, the model moved and mimed to a medley of songs that included ‘Chaiya Chaiya’ and ‘Dabangg’.

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 27 - Do as daddy and mummy do... it's been the easy way out for many in various disciplines. And also in the Malayalam film industry that has seen the entry of the sons of superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal and a whole lot of others.

Pranav Mohanlal, who worked as a child artiste in 2001 movie "Punarjani" and won the best child artiste state film award, took a break to finish his studies. He returned to showbiz with 2008 movie "Sagar Alias Jacky" and has since been waiting in the wings for a good film.

Kuala Lumpur, April 11 : Entertainers from India, including music director Vijay Anthony, singers Neha Bhasin and Naresh Iyer and dancers Ragasia and Meghna Naidu, are all set to enthral Malaysia's 2.1 million ethnic Indian community during the upcoming New Year celebrations.

A multi-cultural show is being organised Friday that will be attended by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor, The Star reported.

On the occasion, the Astro TV channel will launch its special Community News Bulletin for Indians to be broadcast every Saturday and Sunday.

A recently released report by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation expressed satisfaction over rising trade ties between Malaysia and Gulf countries. Trade between the GCC region and Malaysia reached $11 billion, indicating strengthening business ties between nations.

The Middle East Business Leaders Summit and Awards, or MEBLSA 2011, the region’s leading business leader’s forum, is all set to highlight the rising trade ties in its coming edition scheduled to be held on April 17 and 18 in Dubai. Experts will discus various measures for further boosting trade ties for rolling out a new era of mutual cooperation and bilateral trade ties.

Kuala Lumpur, Jan 10 - Portraying of religious preachers as ghost-busters using verses from holy Quran in horror films being made in Malaysia has irked Islamic scholars.

The preachers, called "ustaz" are shown appeasing spirits of ghosts in many horror films that are made locally and are popular with the cine-goers.

Islamic scholars and preachers have called on film directors and scriptwriters to consult religious experts "to protect the faith of Muslim viewers", New Straits Times reported Monday.

Klang (Malaysia), Nov 1:  Traditional dresses worn by Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai in the films "Raavan" and "Robot", which have been runaway hits here this year, are the flavour of the season as Malaysian Indians shop for Deepavali.

The churidar and long-sleeved kameez Aishwarya wore as a dance teacher who gets kidnapped in the modern-day version of the "Ramayana" are a hit among women shoppers.

After an Indian businessman was reported to be disappeared in Malaysia, an investigation has been introduced to probe further into this matter. It is to be mentioned here that the police suspect that he was murdered.

For the record, A. Muthuraja landed on the Malaysian turf in January with an aim to close a business deal.

But after he had a word with his family from the two lawyer brothers’ farm house, he was missing. It may be noted here that the same brothers also came to receive Muthuraja.

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 9 - Indian actress Tabu is among the Bollywood stars who are here to promote choreographer Saroj Khan's dance academy that will open the doors to Malaysian students in September.

The Saroj Khan Dance Academy is a joint-venture between Khan and her local partner, Pen 'N' Camera (M) Sdn Bhd.

"Fans can look forward to more of the glitter of Bollywood," The Star said Monday.

It described Tabu as "the leggy beauty" who won critical acclaim for her role in a number of films including "Chandni Bar".

Tata Steel has made announcement that its arm, NatSteel Holdings Pte, has sold around 27.03% equity stake in Southern Steel Berhad, Malaysia.

The deal is valued at $72 million.

In a declaration, the company said, "The sale is part of Tata Steel's strategy of restructuring its portfolio and reconsidering its position in geographies where it does not have a majority control."

Malaysian immigration agencies have been instructed to ease the issuance of visas to make it easier for Indian residents to visit Malaysia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak made this declaration today.

While lecturing at the Malaysia-India Business Seminar, Najib stated that the department would establish more offices in India with the intention that Indian visitors to Malaysia could apply for visas easily.

According to Najib, there are more than 100 flights between Malaysia and India on a weekly basis.

Researchers in Malaysia have found that seventy-six percent of men hospitalized for a heart attack had erectile dysfunction six months prior to the heart attack.

The yearlong study conducted last year involved 111 sexually active men at the University Malaya Medical Center, said Dr. S. V. Ramesh of the University of Malay Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Santos Ltd., the third largest oil and gas producer in Australia, announced today that its Gladstone liquefied natural gas joint venture with Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd. Won the approval from the Queensland government. Santos became the first company to receive environmental approval from the state government for its liquefied natural gas project.

The project now just needs to get approved by the federal government for further proceedings.

Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia has made announcement about the launching of its maiden flight to India's Bangalore city, carrying 15 kids having congenital heart disease who need open heart surgery.

The kids will have surgical operation at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Institute in Bangalore, whose chief Devi Shetty is a familiar name here as he regularly performs surgeries.

Kathleen Tan, AirAsia group commercial regional head, stated that the newly introduced service was expected to promote medical tourism in India.

he Noida-based Institute of Cellular Therapies (ICT) has accepted an offer from Malaysia to offer targeted "dendritic cell" therapy to sufferers after effectively treating lots of cancer patients in India.

ICT has invented a novel treatment, which makes use of cell-based cancer immuno-therapy - treatment utilizing the patient's own mononuclear cells transmuted into cancer-specific dendritic cells.

Anita Tilwari (32) is in Malaysia, researching on medicinal plants for curing cancer.

Having overcome two handicaps — of being a Dalit and a woman — she won a government of India fellowship for research at the Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, University Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, north Malaysia.

She also heads a Malaysian delegation to promote awareness about science.

Anita grew up watching her parents till the field and do menial jobs in Alampur, Harda district in Madhya Pradesh. (Her parents still work as labourers in Bhopal.)

The Cabinet on Thursday referred an agreement between India and Malaysia on road highways to a Group of Ministers following differences between ministries.

Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath had proposed to sign an agreement with Malaysia in the field of technical assistance in highways management. But, three Cabinet ministers — Kapil Sibal, Veerappa Moilly and Montek Singh Ahluwalia — raised concerns saying the exit clause was weak.  “There should be more internal transparency in the agreement,” a minister said.

Bollywood hottie Rani Mukerji is all set to shoot a romantic movie in Malaysia's Kuala Terengganu state in May.

Mentri Besar, chief minister of the state that is situated 500 km northeast of the national capital, stated that his administration is happy that a Bollywood production house has chosen Kuala Terengganu as its shooting place.

Besar added that this could promote the state's tourism business.

Scenic Kuala Terengganu is located on the Terrengganu River and is surrounded by South China Sea from three sides.

Malaysia is expected to host a Pakistan-South Africa cricket series after the Proteas denied to visit Pakistan owing to security concerns.

The series, which consists of 3 Test matches, 5 ODIs and a Twenty20 match, is planned to be held in October 2010.

According to the sources, Dubai and Abu Dhabi may also get to host the scheduled series.

But, a concluding verdict in this regard will be taken by the next month.

South Africa has become the latest group to pull out of a planned Test tour of Pakistan citing safety reasons.

Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Feb. 7 : Still not ready to have women officers on board, the Indian Navy can take a hint from the Royal Malaysian Navy which has Lieutenant Farah-al-Habshi onboard a warship here for Exercise Milan, a multinational exercise witnessing the participation of 13 navies of the Asia-Pacific region.

The Indian Navy inducts women officers only in the education, logistics, law and air traffic control branches.

The draw of the Fed Cup is released on Tuesday and India is placed in the Pool A of the Asia-Oceania Group-II along with Singapore and Malaysia.

India will start their campaign in the Fed Cup with match against Singapore on Thursday followed by Malaysia on Friday at the National Tennis Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

The winners of Pool A and Pool B will face each other in the play-off tie and the victorious team will be promoted to Group-I. India was demoted to Group-II last year after Indian women had gone down to Chinese Taipei 0-3.