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4 Aug 2009, 2:17 pm
The most important recent reform has been the relaxation of rules requiring ethnic Malay investors to have at least a 30% stake in any listed company. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 12:38 pm
Born in Australia in 1856, with mixed aboriginal, Malay, and African ancestry, Woods (like many inventors of all races) demonstrated fierce determination and persistence in attempting to capitalize his inventions and bring them to market. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 12:43 am
In Malaysia, where causing religious disharmony can be prosecuted as a crime, police are investigating two Muslim men who attended a Roman Catholic mass as part of an investigative article published in the Malay-language Al-Islam magazine. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 9:06 pm
Intuiting the mind of the Creator, the judge wrote: “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. [read post]
21 Mar 2009, 3:15 pm
The poll came in the wake of a dispute between the government and a newspaper, the Catholic Herald, that used the term in its Malay language edition. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 11:42 pm
Languages The MAVNI program is seeking individuals proficient in the following languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian-Khmer, Chinese, Czech, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Malay, Malayalam, Moro, Nepalese, Persian (both Dari and Farsi), Polish, Punjabi, Pushtu (aka Pashto), Russian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Somali, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, and Yoruba. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 4:31 pm
Singapore isnt really a country -- it's a nation-state or a city-state. back then it was in what I think was was called the British Federation of Malay States.Getting docked there was a precarious operation back then. there wasn't enough dock space so ships were tied up alongside each other until it was your turn to be alongside the dock, and loaded or unloaded. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 10:17 pm
In Malaysia, the newspaper Catholic Herald has been in a dispute for some time with government officials over the paper's use of the term "Allah" in its Malay language edition to refer to God. [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 3:03 am
The Australian writes:One group of critics has commissioned computer experts with specialised anti-plagiarism software to scour Darwin's book, published in 1859, for similarities to a paper released the year before by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who worked for eight years in what he termed the Malay Archipelago - primarily Indonesia and Malaysia.Initial indications are that the analysis will show some of the most important ideas in On the Origin of Species were taken from… [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 10:33 am
[JURIST] A Malaysian labor activist jailed for alleging police brutality against illegal immigrants in detention was acquitted by the Kuala Lumpur High Court [Malaysia courts website, partially in Malay] on Monday. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 1:00 pm
As previously reported, in Malaysia the Catholic newspaper The Herald has filed suit in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to challenge the Home Ministry's decision banning the paper from using the term "Allah" as a synonym for God in its Malay-language reporting. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 6:57 pm
(If they haven't gotten this out in Chinese, Malay, Thai, etc., they are not getting through to their customers directly.) [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 12:34 pm
[JURIST] The Malaysian government will table a bill at the August parliamentary session that would require criminal suspects to submit to DNA testing, according to a Monday report in the newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau [media website, in Malay]. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 4:00 am
Part of what makes Singapore so fascinating is its overlapping Chinese, Malay and Indian influences found in such a small geographic area. [read post]
6 May 2008, 1:38 pm
The state prosecuted Richard and me, and after we were found guilty, the judge declared: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. [read post]
5 May 2008, 6:58 pm
The state prosecuted Richard and me, and after we were found guilty, the judge declared: “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. [read post]
5 May 2008, 3:18 am
[JURIST] The Malaysian High Court Monday accepted a challenge by Malay-Roman Catholic Herald [media website] newspaper to a government ban on using the word "Allah" as a synonym for "God," rejecting the government's argument that the lawsuit by the Kuala Lumpur-based weekly was without merit. [read post]
4 May 2008, 11:50 pm
The Herald says that "Allah" is an Arabic word that has been used more generally for centuries to mean "God" in Malay. [read post]
27 Apr 2008, 9:00 pm
-- In 2005, a Singapore judge sentenced two bloggers to jail (one for a month and the other for a day) for posting racist comments about ethnic Malays. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 5:58 pm
The United Malays National Party dominates the coalition. [read post]
