Word: malaysians
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...much has been raised, but so little has come my way. Is all the money going to Aceh?" ARIFFIN MANSOOR, Malaysian fisherman, on the shortage of relief aid in Kedah state, where 2,300 fishing boats were destroyed by the Dec. 26 tsunami...
...building them were in nations that wanted a symbol of their arrival as a contender in the global market, mostly in Asia's Pacific Rim. The honor of having the world's tallest building passed from the U.S. in 1998, when the 1,483-ft. Petronas Towers in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur overtook the 1,450-ft. Sears Tower in Chicago. And then there is the endlessly ambitious city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, which architecturally is the mouse that roared: in the past five years, three of the world's 25 tallest buildings have been...
...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...
...government should pay civil servants a batik allowance." ZAINAL RAMPAK, president of the Malaysian Trade Union Congress, complaining about a new rule stipulating that the country's 800,000 civil servants must wear traditional batik clothing to work on Saturdays...
...Chor Joo is concerned, they already have. The 30-year-old Malaysian fisherman was on his usual night run for shrimp and squid a few kilometers off the western coast of peninsular Malaysia in June when his 9-m wooden vessel was approached by a rifle-toting group he assumed were policemen. "They fired some shots in the air and told me to get on their boat. They were young, about 25 years old, and grim-faced, looking like some gang from a movie, some of them wearing bandanas around their heads, all carrying rifles and a few with grenade...