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...their world safer and does not deserve a second term as their President? How can people in nations with repressive governments continue to argue that free media will disseminate the truth and ensure the well-being of citizens after what just happened in the U.S. ? Chuah Siew Eng Kuala Lumpur...
...They are ethnic Europeans. They cannot be Asians." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, former Malaysian Prime Minister, arguing that Australia should be excluded from an East Asia summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur next year...
...half its crude oil, including 90% of Japan's oil needs. Its narrowest point, near Singapore, is barely 2 km across, making passing ships easy targets. In its latest report released last month, the London-based International Maritime Bureau (IMB), whose Piracy Reporting Centre is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, notes that although piracy decreased by a third worldwide in the first nine months of this year, the Strait of Malacca alone yielded 25 incidents?almost as many in the area as in all of 2003. In all, says the IMB, 111 reported incidents took place in the waters...
...Kidnappings like Teh's have spread fear in his fishing village of Kuala Sepetang, which is about 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur. "This is the first time one of our fishermen was taken," says local politician Chua Tiong San. "It's like having a baby snatched from the front room of your house." Chua surveys the scores of wooden boats bobbing on the murky green waters of the Sepetang River. "Now the whole town is too scared to go out to sea," he says sadly. "Look at all the boats tied up when they would normally be working...
Bangsar, at one time Kuala Lumpur's beer-and java-fueled social epicenter, is not quite the buzzing burb it used to be. Blame that on two upstart areas-Changkat Bukit Bintang and Jalan Doraisamy (a.k.a. Asian Heritage Row)-that have taken the Malaysian capital by storm with a combination of restored colonial architecture and hip nightlife. There's plenty of decadent local color to boot-Changkat Bukit Bintang doubles up as love-hotel central...