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...March 9, Malaysian security forces arrested five armed Thai Muslim militants at Kuala Lumpur's Sentral Station, sparking concerns that the insurgency in southern Thailand was threatening to spill over into neighboring Malaysia, potentially including terror attacks in Malaysian cities. But TIME has now learned that the men were in the country to collect a cache of arms hidden by Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the al-Qaeda-linked militant network widely blamed for the Oct. 2002 Bali bombings. The connection raises its own set of concerns. In particular, analysts say, ties between Thailand and a wider Muslim militancy might signal...
...Harmony Silk Factory doesn't strain to be The Great Malaysian Novel. That's a deliberate decision by Aw, 33, who considers himself "100% Malaysian," though born in Taipei (to Malaysian-Chinese parents), raised in Kuala Lumpur, educated at Cambridge and now resident in London. "I didn't set out to incorporate any particularly Malaysian themes," Aw said from New York City, where he was on a promotional tour. "My intention was to demolish the Malaysian historical novel of the 1930s and '40s, as influenced by Somerset Maugham. You know, the idea that there are only two versions of Malaysia...
...Prior to this visit to Saigon, I spent five weeks in Kuala Lumpur, a city I first got to know in 1973 when it struck me as a sleepy, no-hope backwater. Today, Malaysia has raced far ahead of Vietnam, which is still hobbled by corruption, bureaucracy and ugly politics. Vietnam lost a generation of progress because it did not spawn leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad to set the country's economic course...
...then majority whip Tom DeLay, his wife, his staff and two Florida Republican House members arrived in Malaysia on what was billed as an educational trip. After a day of informal meetings and a fancy dinner given by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Kuala Lumpur, they decamped to the Datai Hotel, whose promotional material describes it as located on "a mystical island of wild scenic beauty." Says Heritage Foundation president Edwin Feulner, whose organization was the official sponsor of the trip: "I sat by the pool while they played golf...
Although U.S. officials were pleased by Hanoi's pledge to return American MIAs, they doubted that Viet Nam was signaling a fundamental shift in policy. The Thach proposal shrewdly preceded the annual conference of the non-Communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where ASEAN foreign ministers groped for ways to bring about talks between Viet Nam and the Kampuchean insurgents. A plan calling for negotiations with a Vietnamese delegation that might include representatives of the Heng Samrin regime won the backing of resistance fighters, ASEAN nations and the U.S. But Viet Nam rejected the idea...