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Nathaniel J. Tan ’03-’04, a secretary for a foundation run by the former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Malaysia, was detained last Friday by Malaysian police officers and is still being held under the country’s Official Secrets Act for violation of the Communication and Multimedia Act, an individual close to the situation requesting anonymity confirmed Monday afternoon...
...Tan is the secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a newly-formed, Beirut-based grant-making organization with a mission to support democracy in the Middle East...
...president of the foundation is controversial political figure Anwar Ibrahim, who spent five years in prison on corruption charges and was later convicted of sodomy before the Malaysian Supreme Court overturned the second conviction, prompting his release in September 2004. Both Tan and Ibrahim are members of the People’s Justice Party, which has in the past clashed with Malaysia’s largest political party, the United Malays National Organization...
...world devour more and more food that has little nutritional value. And overeating results in unwelcome and dreadful obesity. We must be most careful in what we choose to eat. The bottom line is, eat simply and eat little. That is the road to good health and longevity. Tan Boon Tee, Chukai, Malaysia...
...king in Florida to a greater degree than it is even in California; and the peninsula is scattered with dead initiatives to curb its use, especially local tax efforts to improve the state's virtually nonexistent public transportation. But Crist, whose optimism is as bright as his tan, isn't worried. "Floridians love their cars, and that's their right," he says. "But I think there may be less of a fight here than we might imagine. There is a consensus of opinion and a desire among Floridians to do this...