Crazy true love story

I read about ancient practice of Sati whereby the wife immolates herself on her husband's pyre, when I was still at primary school. I guess this boy can't bear the separation and his parent's wish. Pity.

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Teen kills self by jumping into girlfriend’s funeral pyre

MAKKAL Osai reported that a 17-year-old boy in Punjab, India, shocked onlookers by jumping into the funeral pyre of his girlfriend who had committed suicide.

The girl had apparently taken her own life after her parents refused to accept their relationship.

Bittu Singh’s skeletal remains were found when the girl’s family returned to collect her ashes the next day. Read more at thestar.com.my

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Teenager gunned down

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This could be gang related. It seems like Ipoh is beginning to look like a hotbed for gang related activities. See another news of another murder case that look like a hit by gangs here http://goo.gl/RpBgV.

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After the trashing, Mourinho is ...

... either a brave man or in denial. He's always protective since his Chelsea days. But, this is really bad. I mean, just before this game both Ronaldo and Messi scored their hat-tricks; and this is supposed to be a classic encounter, but it became a whitewash. Football, bloody hell!

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Mourinho plays down scale of loss

Jose Mourinho denied Real Madrid were humiliated after they suffered a crushing 5-0 defeat at the hands of rivals Barcelona on Monday night.

"One team played very good, one team very bad," Mourinho said. "One deserved to win and deserved to lose. Humiliated? No. It's easy to deal with this loss, we just weren't good enough.

Goals from Xavi, Pedro, a double from David Villa and a last-gasp effort from Jeffren saw Barcelona secure a victory that sends them top of the Primera Liga and inflicted the worst defeat of Mourinho's career. Read more at soccernet.espn.go.com

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Another PKFZ in the making?

Call in PAC and MACC. Find out who's the culprit this time. I smell rat here ...

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Fresh tender to complete Shah Alam Hospital

This picture, taken in November last year, shows the slow progress on the new RM482 million Shah Alam Hospital.

The Works Ministry has put out a tender to find a "white knight" contractor to complete the stalled RM482 million Shah Alam Hospital project.

Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said the tender advertisement was put up last Friday and would close on Dec 17. "The Public Works Department is presently calling for a new tender to appoint a 'white knight' contractor through a limited tender procurement to proceed with the remainder of the abandoned project. Read more at www.nst.com.my

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"Sex Education" in Singapore

Another one of those Singaporean "social experiment" I guess. It really showed that some in Singapore still hold their eastern values highly.

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Nightspot offers free entry to those with condoms

HEALTH counsellors have condemned a popular nightspot in Singapore for offering its patrons free entry if they come with condoms, reported Sin Chew Daily.

The club – The Butter Factory – offered patrons free entry between 10pm and midnight last Saturday if they came with condoms.

Those who forgot to bring condoms were given some by the club for free.

Counsellors warned that the move – which was publicised by the nightspot via Facebook with the theme “Got cover?” – was encouraging pre-marital sex and threatening the marriage institution. Read more at thestar.com.my

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Tun M Does Make Sense

Now, if only the current premier agrees. I think there's truth in Tun M's thoughts. We should learn from Dubai and the recent economic crisis. We're not out of the woods yet. We should concentrate on improving our infrastructure first. We have a lot to learn from Singapore with regards to planning and maintaining a modern super city.

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We don’t need Warisan Merdeka yet, says Dr M

“I see signs everywhere saying ‘for sale’ or ‘for rent’ in quite a number of places,” he said. “This means we have a surplus of office space,” he added when addressing a full house lecture titled “Revisiting Vision 2020” yesterday.

“We should build it (Warisan Merdeka) a little later,” said Mahathir. “Maybe when I’m not around,” he added in jest.

He also said Malaysia could reach a property glut from overzealous development and cautioned against following in the footsteps of Dubai, Hong Kong and Japan, which suffered from a credit crisis due to overbuilding.

“There will come a stage when they cannot sell or pay back the bank. I’m not sure whether we are going to reach that level yet or not, but maybe we are quite near there.” Read more at thestar.com.my

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Pakatan's Performance Review Session

I think the score card doesn't look that good. More and more people has expressed dissatisfaction. It doesn't look good for the next election. I think they should dump PKR from the line-up in the next GE.

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Heads of Pakatan-ruled states discuss successes

The second Pakatan Mentris Besar and Chief Minister summit, hosted by the Selangor government, also felt that the mainstream media should give better coverage of the coalition.

Asked about Pakatan’s strategy to maintain control of the states it won at the last general election, Khalid said:

“I do not think it is right to openly speak about our strategy.”

He, however, urged the parties under Pakatan to be prepared for an early election.

Besides PAS maintaining its hold on Kelantan, the Opposition pact wrested four states from the Barisan – Selangor, Penang, Kedah and Perak – at the last general election in 2008.

However, Perak has since returned to the Barisan after three state assemblymen quit the coalition to become Barisan-friendly independents. Read more at thestar.com.my

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Zaid and his meanderings

Zaid will just confuse the masses even more. Makes me wonder what is his real motive here. He might as well join PERKASA.

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Zaid may revive dormant political party

Zaid had received offers to take over several other parties but he was said to be interested in the party that was set up over four decades ago.

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Zaid Ibrahim will likely revive a dormant party founded by a reputable statesman.

Several MPs were said to have shown interest in joining the new party.

Many also believed that he would continue to maintain a good rapport with DAP and PAS despite falling out with PKR. Read more at thestar.com.my

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