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...NAMED. SYED SIRAJUDDIN SYED PUTRA JAMALULLAIL 58, the ruler of Perlis, Malaysia's smallest state, as the country's 12th King since 1957; in Kuala Lumpur. Syed Sirajuddin, trained at Britain's Sandhurst, served in the army before succeeding his father as Sultan of Perlis last year. His election has no political significance; the ceremonial crown is rotated among royalty every five years. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of DICK ARMEY, 65, the House of Representatives Republican majority leader since 1995; in Washington, D.C. Armey, extolled by fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing...
...DIED. KING SALAHUDDIN ABDUL AZIZ SHAH, 75, constitutional monarch of Malaysia; in Kuala Lumpur. Salahuddin, an avid golfer and cyclist, took the ceremonial throne in 1999 under a five-year rotation system when he was elected by secret ballot among the sultans of Malaysia's nine states. Salahuddin married four times, lastly exchanging controversial vows with a 19-year-old. DIED. MOHAMED IBRAHIM KAMEL, 74, the former Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign...
...campy queen in a rock band? The plotline of Spinning Gasing, the best Malaysian movie to come along in decades. It's a film that strums all the most jazzed-up chords of contemporary Malaysian society?including interracial and homosexual love?which prompted a yearlong battle with Kuala Lumpur's squeamish censors, who ended up taking a parang to the director's cut. Even so, reviews have been glowing, theaters are packed and screens are finally filled with a slice of modern Malaysian life as it really...
...which Australia refused entry to 460 refugees, mainly Afghans, aboard the cargo ship Tampa. Like the hundreds who drowned off Java, many of the refugees aboard the Tampa had passed through Malaysia on their way to Indonesia to board the ship. There has been talk in recent weeks in Kuala Lumpur of a variety of measures that might be taken to plug the holes through which the flow of refugees pours?a temporary amnesty, a move to limit visa-free entry to certain countries?but so far no action...
...special meeting at the APEC summit in Shanghai last week. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are wooing Mahathir because "they feel they can use him as a voice for moderation in the Islamic world," says Razak Baginda, head of a pro-government think tank in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia's relations with the U.S. had been soured by American criticism of the jailing of Anwar. Mahathir has long been eager to mend ties with his country's biggest trade partner and investor, dispatching three separate envoys to Washington this year; as recently as July, Malaysia's Foreign Minister...