According to thestar.com.my, an Indonesian couple who planned to get married was found dead in a plastic tent at a vegetable farm in Jalan Sungai Menson, Tringkap near Cameron Highlands on Sunday. Passers-by stumbled on the bodies of the 26-year-old man and the 22-year-old woman about noon and alerted the police. Read article
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Thestar.com.my reports that a foreign worker was killed after being hit by a car while crossing the road here. The 50-year-old victim from China started his job at a furniture shop near Kota Sentosa three months ago. According to his employer, the deceased had gone out with two co-workers for dinner at a coffeeshop on […]
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According to channelnewsasia.com, eleven people, including two Singaporeans, were involved in a bus accident along Malaysia’s North-South Highway on Wednesday. The bus operator, Grassland Express and Tours, said four people sustained injuries. They have been transferred to Singapore General Hospital for treatment. Read article
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Thestar.com.my reports that the few seconds of waiting in a car for the traffic lights to change saw a Japanese man lost RM25,000 to robbers. The 42-year-old victim was driving to a bank with a friend when he stopped at the junction along Jalan Nusa Perintis 2 in Gelang Patah at about noon Monday. The […]
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According to thejakartaglobe.com, an Indonesian woman died and seven people remain missing after a wooden boat believed to be smuggling them out of Malaysia to return home for the end of Ramadan overturned, authorities said Friday. Twenty-seven people have been saved after the boat heading to Indonesia’s Batam island capsized early Thursday off southern Johor […]
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Fox News reports that Taiwan evacuated more than 2,000 tourists on Thursday as the island braced for super-typhoon Soulik with authorities warning of fierce winds and torrential rains. The typhoon, packing gusts of up to 227 kilometres (140 miles) per hour, was 960 kilometres east of the island’s southernmost tip as of 0300 GMT, Taiwan’s […]
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Theborneopost.com reports that an elderly Russian woman lost her handbag, which contained some RM2,000 of items including cash, to a snatch thief on Sunday morning. The 60-year-old woman was walking back to her hotel around 11am when her bag was snatched by a motorcyclist. The handbag contained her mobile phone, hotel room key and cash […]
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According to thestar.com.my, a Vietnamese man ended up dead after spending the night with a man in a hotel near Warisan Cityview here. Hotel workers heard a scuffle in a fourth floor room at around 5.38am then saw the naked Vietnam national dashing out covered in blood. His body was later found on the first […]
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According to bernama.com, a local tour guide has been detained to facilitate investigations into the murder of a Vietnamese tourist whose nude body was found at a hotel in Cheras here early Saturday. The 23-year-old victim, whom the police declined to identify, was found stabbed to death under the staircase on the first floor of […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that Malaysian immigration authorities should reverse their decision to deny entry Wednesday to a journalist critical of the provincial Sarawak government, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Clare Rewcastle Brown, who is based in the United Kingdom, flew to Kuching in southeast Malaysia but was served a “notice […]
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