Word: lumpur
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...floating five-star country-house hotel" than a cruise ship. From $8,785 to $16,993 for a two-person cabin. tel: (44-0845) 0700 606; www.abercrombiekent.co.uk Singapore to Bangkok: The Eastern & Oriental Express whisks you along for two nights and three days (departs Dec. 24), pausing at Kuala Lumpur and historic Georgetown in Penang. Enjoy the scenery while dining in an elegant Thai-inspired restaurant car. $1,590 to $3,220. tel: (44-0845) 077 2222; www.orientexpress.com
...least two are believed to have done some of the surveillance of targets in New York City and elsewhere that authorities found out about last month. Some U.S. officials fear that the meeting may have been a pivotal planning session, much the way a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was for the 9/11 attacks. "This was a meeting of a bunch of cold-blooded killers who are very skilled at what they do and have an intense desire to inflict an awful lot of pain and suffering on America," says an official familiar with the summit. A senior counterterrorism official...
...least two are believed to have done some of the surveillance of targets in New York City and elsewhere that authorities found out about last month. Some U.S. officials fear that the summit may have been a pivotal planning session, much the way a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was for the 9/11 attacks. "This was a meeting of a bunch of cold-blooded killers who are very skilled at what they do and have an intense desire to inflict an awful lot of pain and suffering on America," says a U.S. official familiar with the summit. A senior counterterrorism...
...admit it, but Nadarajah Shan-Mugam's vanity saved his life. The 49-year-old Malaysian handyman was riding his motorbike to work in Kuala Lumpur one morning last year when an irritating drizzle suddenly billowed into a blinding tropical downpour. Spotting a flyover a few hundred meters ahead on the highway, Raja raced for shelter. A dozen fellow bikers were there already. As three lanes of rush-hour traffic continued to roar past, more bikers squeezed in, huddling together and turning their backs to the windblown rain and the heavy spray from passing vehicles. Raja lit a cigarette, then...
HOSPITALIZED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, jailed former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; for a worsening back condition; in Kuala Lumpur. After complaining that he'd lost feeling in his left leg, Anwar was rushed from prison to the hospital, where medical tests diagnosed kidney, nerve and spinal damage. Anwar's family is lobbying the government to let him leave Malaysia for treatment in Munich. Anwar is awaiting the result of his final appeal on a controversial 1998 conviction and nine-year prison term for sodomy...