KUALA LUMPUR: Muslims must not wear the famous Manchester United red jersey because of the “devil” emblem on its team crest, Malaysian clerics said today. Manchester United and the rest of the English Premier League are massively popular in Muslim-majority Malaysia and the rest of the Asian region, but conservative religious scholars said the jersey [...]

ELAN PERUMAL provides a first-hand account of his close encounters with vagabonds over a two-month observation period. I WAS surprised to find beggars and their children all over the place when I first entered their “territory”. They were in the thick of action and I realised that they were well known among the petty traders [...]

A MASSEUSE in Kuala Lumpur has claimed to have given massages capable of enhancing male libido to over 1,000 men, including local artistes and celebrities, reported Harian Metro. The woman, known only as Lia, 43, however denied that she was a prostitute or ever felt disgusted by her work. She said her husband did not [...]

A CHINESE national on holiday in Singapore fell in love with a suave, good-looking Malaysian, but the man turned out to be a pimp who forced her to service more than 6,000 clients in the republic. China Press quoted the 35-year-old woman, who wished to be known only as Lim, as saying that her nightmare [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: A consultant is worried that nude photos taken by her online boyfriend will be posted on the Web. Annie, 32, had a relationship with the man, known as William Bobby Madoff, since March last year. They got to know each other through Yahoo messenger. Although they have never met, Annie claims to have [...]

PETALING JAYA: The severed wild boar heads found in the compounds of two mosques are believed to have come from animals reared in farms. Police said this was because of the higher levels of fat found in the heads. Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said police had sought the assistance of [...]

A man in his 20s, who is facing a rape charge, has been arrested for forcing a teenage girl to perform oral sex on her boyfriend at a waterfall so that he could video record the act. Berita Harian reported that the man tried to use a handphone to record the couple at the Jeram [...]

KUALA TERENGGANU: A 14-year-old Indonesian maid was detained for torching her employer’s house in Taman Murni, Seberang Takir, here, yesterday. The maid, from Palembang, was believed to have set fire to the bedroom and the kitchen before fleeing to the Kuala Terengganu bus terminal with two laptop computers and RM500 belonging to Intan Zuhaida Abdul [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: They “hired” women and made them sleep with men. Nine months later, they would “harvest” the babies born and sell them to childless couples. And if this was not heinous enough, they would then tell the new mothers that their babies were not “beautiful enough” and cut down the amount of money originally [...]

A WOMAN suspects that black magic was used to charm her daughter who has gone missing, reported Harian Metro. “My daughter used to be obedient and never went out of the house alone. There is no way she would just vanish and leave the family. “I believe Thai black magic was used on her,” said [...]