It's Wednesday and that means Hari Raya Aidilfitri is just two days away! Are you guys working away or have you all balik kampung? Anyway, on to the news:
- Sosilawati Lawiya update: The millionaire was spotted buying Raya kuih and kerepek in Banting. [Bernama]
- The Semenyih water treatment had to be shut down yesterday due to high levels of ammonia in the water, leaving 1.2 million people in several districts in the Klang Valley and in Putrajaya affected. [AFP]
- PM Najib Razak will be hosting a Raya open house at his official residence on the first day of Hari Raya from 11.30am to 5pm. You're invited! [The Star]
- NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending a Florida pastor's right to burn copies of the Quran during a public demonstration on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Speaking of which, many Muslim organizations are asking the American Muslims to tone down their Raya celebrations to honour the Sept. 11 anniversary. [Washington Post]
- In France, more than a million people took to the streets to protest plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, disrupting trains and planes, hospitals and mail deliver. [LA Times]
- A new study shows that psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms," may help terminally ill cancer patients get some relief from anxiety. [msnbc.com]
- Finally: How to throw a hipster wedding in 5 easy steps. [Flavorwire]
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Last year, the first Arthur's Day bash was thrown to commemorate the 250th year that Guinness has been served, and Malaysia was one of five venues that were given the honour of hosting celebrations marking this monumental occasion. This year, gear up for another explosive party with a stellar line-up of acts, including Sean Kingston, Colby O'Donis, Melissa Indot, and Flo Rida! Read more
FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX returns in September and continues to be the only night race in the F1 race calendar. This means more than just the adrenaline rush of watching speed demons conquering the streets of Singapore. It also marks the return of Grand Prix Season Singapore, a ten-day entertainment blowout event from 17 - 26 September, that's loaded with race-themed events, exclusive parties, art exhibitions, and not forgetting, the kind of dining and shopping that only Singapore can offer. To enhance and make the Grand Prix Season Singapore even better for you, we are giving away a pair of return flights and walkabout tickets to 2010 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX! Read more
It's Tuesday! Here's a serving of notable reads for your procratinating perusal:
- The High Court has given the green light to the development of 70 bungalows in Bukit Gasing. [Bernama]
- A notorious wildlife trafficker has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined RM190,000 for attempting to smuggle 95 boa constrictors in his luggage. [AFP]
- The cars belonging to millionaire and Nouvelle Visages beauty products founder Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and her lawyer were found last night – without the four who had been reported missing a week ago. [The Malaysian Insider]
- PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz says the issue over a Chinese entering a mosque has been blown out of proportion. "I am puzzled why this matter has been politicised when there are also cases of Chinese who made contributions in cash and kind to build mosques." [The Star]
- Some 200 Chinese pilots have faked their flying histories with more than half of them working for an airline involved in China's worst plane crash in several years. [The Independent]
- A 106-year-old woman in the UK is not only a virgin, she has never ever been kissed. Isabella Blyth, who just turned 106, puts her longevity to being a virgin. [Scotsman.com]
- A 23-year-old woman faked cancer so that strangers would chip in to pay for her dream wedding. It was her now-ex-husband who discovered it after calling the doctor's office to inquire about his wife's condition, and was told she was "never a patient here." [recordonline.com]
- Finally: Did you know there's a proper way to open a new book without damaging the bind and pages? [Boing Boing]
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This modest new arts space came to our attention because of its unusual. Small Talk With The Moon, a repurposed modernist bungalow in the heart of PJ's Section 12, bucks art-market pressures and hopes to be a place for people to "enjoy art that they truly like"! Read more
Monday, Monday, Monday. Chances are you'll be painful. For now, we're reserving judgment. Instead, the news!
- TV3 has withdrawn its Raya ad after receiving complaints from its viewers as it featured flying objects resembling Santa Claus. [NST]
- 220 students from a high school in Central Java have written letters of friendship to Malaysian students in a bid for a peaceful settlement to the spat between Indonesia and Malaysia. [The Star]
- PKR's party elections are around the corner and Selangor MB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim is facing competition from three others as he defends his Kuala Selangor PKR division chief post. [Bernama]
- While quake-hit New Zealand city of Christchurch remains shut, there have been a baby boom in the country. 21 babies were born in Christchurch within 24 hours after the tremor. [Straits Times]
- Man U striker Wayne Rooney has become embroiled in a controversy! Apparently he paid a high-class call-girl for sex while his wife Coleen was pregnant with their son. [Telegraph.co.uk]
- Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks! The country's academic prowess has been sliding in recent years. [AP]
- Craiglist has censored "adult services" on its site after heavy criticism for providing an easy front to prostitution. [CNN]
- Paris Hilton: "What's Wal-Mart, do they sell, like, wall stuff?" - 15 dumbest celebrity quotes. [The Stir]
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Shanon is a many-talented guy: he's a singer-songwriter (his new album is due soon), playwright (his play Air Con was critically acclaimed) and journalist (formerly of online paper The Nut Graph). We'll be losing him soon -- he leaves on a Chevening Scholarship to the UK this month. We catch up with him before his departure! Read more
TGIF! Here's today's scoop to end your week with:
- Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein says a special unit has been set up to monitor Internet postings that can ignite racial tension and cause disunity. [The Star]
- PM Najib Razak wants you to trust the mainstream media as it's "its facts cannot be questioned". Alternative media, on the other hand, publishes reports based on opinions which are “half truths and not accurate”. [The Malaysian Insider]
- 16-year-old Nabil Jeffri made motor sport history yesterday by becoming the youngest person to drive a Formula One car in an official test. [Times of India]
- Former member of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) Malaysia Shamsuddin Sulaiman has been released after spending eight years under ISA. [Bernama]
- A tourist bus from Genting Highland skidded and turned turtle during heavy downpour at KM35.1 of the Karak Highway, leaving 18 injured. [AsiaOne]
- US soldiers are now allowed to get high on ecstasy, all in the name of finding a way to cope with post traumatic stress disorder. Two researchers will test their theory in therapy sessions. [Wired]
- Catherine Zeta Jones has lashed out at doctors for failing to spot husband Michael Douglas's throat cancer sooner. [BBC News]
- Several on-going experiments have shown that McDonald's food stubbornly refuse to rot. While many think its the chemicals and preservatives that are keeping McDonald's food immortal, fat is actually the real culprit. [Newser]
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Everyone's getting into the business of making a more interactive, immersive videogame console controller. Sony's latest offering, the cool PlayStation Move, is set to hit Malaysian stores on 15 September. But will it usher in the promised new age of gaming? Read more
It's Thursday already - ain't that lovely? Time to exercise your reading muscle with our Daily Digest!
- Tan Sri Omar will take over as the new Inspector-General of Police from 13 September. The current IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan will retire after having his tenure extended twice. [The Star]
- Surgeons must obtain their female patients' consent before taking photos of their intimate parts, according to Penang High Court. This comes after a woman had filed the suit against general and colo-rectal surgeon Dr Lim Teik Mau saying she felt violated after he took photographs of her private parts during a haemorrhoids surgery. [Straits Times]
- A Malay Mail editor, Irwan Abdul Rahman, accused of publishing the article “TNB to sue WWF over earth hour” earlier this year, has pleaded not guilty to a charge under the Communications and Multimedia Act. [Free Malaysia Today]
- Apple announced new technological wonders, including a new iPod Touch, Apple TV, an Apple music social network called Ping and an updated iTunes 10. [USA Today]
- A gunman was shot dead after taking three people hostage in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in the US. The man had been arrested before for protesting against Discovery Channel over environmental issues. [msnbc.com]
- Ferrari is recalling more than 400 luxury Italia cars after reports that a design fault could cause them to catch fire. [AFP]
- Scandinavian airline SAS plans to host the first-ever in-flight gay wedding in December. The airline is currently searching for a suitable couple to walk down the airplane aisle. [Telegraph]
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