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...paintings of Ahmad Zakii Anwar are best viewed from the vantage of the tropical street where the artist was born in 1955 and still lives. It is lined with rust-mottled Proton sedans and boxy concrete houses, and wedged into the forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There...
BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN Russians prepare to send first Malaysian into space...
...Shortly before the canine crime fighters headed to their next assignment in the U.S., they received an outstanding-service award from grateful Malaysian officials. Sadly, no big boxes of Scooby Snacks were handed out, but Flo and Lucky did receive nifty medals that complemented their lustrous coats. Their efforts were so effective that the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which had the Labradors trained to identify certain chemicals present on optical discs, reported that Malaysian bootleggers had placed a $28,000 bounty on the dogs' heads. Luckily the hounds escaped any would-be assassins...
...admirable efforts, there's only so much a single pair of pups can do. "To really investigate every nook and cranny of K.L., you'd need a whole kennel of these dogs," says Allan Miller, head of AJ Miller Consulting, a professional corporate investigator based in the Malaysian capital who spends one-third of his time on intellectual-property issues. "To say that [Lucky and Flo] really made a huge difference borders on the ludicrous. It's more publicity hype than anything else." Miller notes that police crackdowns come and go, but pirated DVD shops usually ride out the brief...
...Malaysian officials have contacted Lucky and Flo's Northern Irish trainer to inquire about teaching local dogs the same tricks. In the meantime, the two Labs head to Toronto this month to grace the city's annual film festival with their presence. Perhaps there's a movie deal in the works - a spunky thriller about a pair of dogs who take a bite out of crime. Of course, if such a film ever were to be released, Flo and Lucky might have to track down pirated copies of their own life stories. Talk about chasing one's own tale...