Kuala Lumpur - Men, and specifically those who were married, made up the majority of suicide cases in Malaysia from July to December 2007, a news report said Wednesday.
Out of the 113 suicides reported in the second half of the year, 82 were men, of whom 41 were married, the official Bernama news agency said, citing figures from the National Suicide Registry.
The remaining 31 cases were committed by women, nine of whom were married.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia hopes to cut the number of foreign workers by more than 200,000 by next year to ease the increasing unemployment rate among locals, a news report said Tuesday.
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar told Parliament the government set a new goal of 1.8 million foreign workers by 2010, from the 2.06 migrant workers currently in the country.
"We have managed to reduce the number of foreign workers by some 60,000 since last March.
Kuala Lumpur - A prominent Malaysian lawmaker was charged with sedition Tuesday for allegedly insulting one of the country's nine royal rulers.
Karpal Singh, chairman of the Democratic Action Party, pleaded not guilty to the charge of insulting Sultan Azlan Shah of the northern Perak state on February 6.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian customs police foiled an attempt to smuggle in 4 million ringgit (1.1 million dollars) of the psychotropic drug nimetazepam, better known as Eramin 5, at the cargo area of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, news reports said Tuesday.
Customs officers had become suspicious when a shipment of 10 computer central processing units, or CPUs, arrived from Taiwan weighing 148 kilograms, when the weight of a single unit is normally less than 5 kilograms, said department director general Mohamed Khalid Yusof.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar 16: Incumbent Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S. Samy Vellu is all set to retain the party''s top post for a record 11th consecutive term, as his only challenger, former MIC vice-president M. Muthupalaniappan is not expected to get the minimum 50 nominations required from the party''s branches.
Under the party constitution, a presidential aspirant needs 300 nominations, with each nomination needing a proposer and five seconders, to be eligible to contest. All proposers and seconders must be branch chairmen.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's Parliament suspended a prominent opposition lawmaker for one year Monday after he accused the deputy prime minister of being connected with the murder of a Mongolian woman.
Gobind Singh Deo, a lawyer by profession, caused an uproar in parliament on Thursday when he demanded that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak respond to allegations of his involvement in the 2006 murder of the 28-year old woman.
Kuala Lumpur - Men, and specifically those who were married, made up the majority of suicide cases in Malaysia from July to December 2007, a news report said Wednesday.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia hopes to cut the number of foreign workers by more than 200,000 by next year to ease the increasing unemployment rate among locals, a news report said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur - A prominent Malaysian lawmaker was charged with sedition Tuesday for allegedly insulting one of the country's nine royal rulers.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian customs police foiled an attempt to smuggle in 4 million ringgit (1.1 million dollars) of the psychotropic drug nimetazepam, better known as Eramin 5, at the cargo area of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, news reports said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur, Mar 16: Incumbent Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S. Samy Vellu is all set to retain the party''s top post for a record 11th consecutive term, as his only challenger, former MIC vice-president M. Muthupalaniappan is not expected to get the minimum 50 nominations required from the party''s branches. 
