KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s opposition Islamist party wants U.S. pop star Beyonce to cancel a planned concert in this Southeast Asian country, two years after it prevented the singer from performing, citing moral issues.
Foreign acts often draw protests by the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), whose youth wing succeeded in forcing Beyonce to cancel [...]
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Beyonce stirs Islamist ire in Malaysia again
Malaysian man gets nut stuck around penis
A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday.
The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in [...]
Malaysia and Indonesia start talks after squabble over song
Indonesia and Malaysia will start talks in August to bridge cultural differences following a squabble last October over a popular love song, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.
The southeast Asian neighbours had bickered over the song, Rasa Sayang (Feeling of Love), which Indonesians claim as their own but was used by Malaysia in a [...]
Bag snatcher turns out to be policeman
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A thief chased and caught by a group of Malaysians after he snatched a woman’s handbag turned out to be a policeman, a newspaper said [...]
Malaysian mother offers to do jail time with son
A Malaysian mother wants to join her son in jail to make sure he receives insulin injections three times a day, as well as anti-rejection drugs for a transplanted kidney.
“I don’t want him to die in jail,” a tearful Chew Ten Hee, 67, told the New Straits Times newspaper, adding that her son, Sim [...]
Genie shows barred by Islam, clerics say
Malaysian Islamic scholars have called for a halt to popular exhibitions billed as featuring ghosts, genies and other supernatural beings, saying they are forbidden and could undermine the faith of devout Muslims.
Many Malaysians are willing to suspend disbelief when dealing with the supernatural, and the exhibitions capitalise on a widespread fascination with the ghouls and [...]
Malaysian man saves 100 from sinkhole
A man in eastern Malaysia saved about 100 people from being swallowed by a sinkhole when he felt the earth move while walking to an open-air toilet in the dark, a news report said Saturday.
Renjis Empati immediately ran back to the village where he screamed to alert the others living in a traditional indigenous “longhouse” [...]