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January 5, 2009 Monday
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KUALA TERENGGANU (Malaysia) - FIVE Malaysian opposition members were arrested in north-eastern Terengganu state on Monday as they campaigned for a hotly contested by-election, officials said.

The opposition Keadilan party said the group, including its deputy youth chief Faris Musa, were detained for putting up posters linking Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak with the high-profile 2006 murder of a Mongolian woman.

 
BK nightclub death toll now 64

BANGKOK - THAI police say the death toll in a New Year's Eve nightclub fire has reached 64 after two of those injured died.

Mahathir urges US boycott

KUALA LUMPUR - FORMER Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday called for a global boycott of the US dollar and US-made products, including Coca-Cola, in protest over Washington's backing of Israel.

Thousands flee M'sia floods

KUALA LUMPUR - MONSOON raids flooded low-lying towns in four eastern Malaysian states, killing one Indonesian man and prompting more than 4,500 residents to flee their homes, police and local media said on Monday.

   
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