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- Four suspected armed robbers arrested after car chase and shootout with police
- Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng wins Asia’s top literary prize
- Now its maximum of 12 subjects for SPM students
| Four suspected armed robbers arrested after car chase and shootout with police Posted: 14 Mar 2013 08:21 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Four suspected armed robbers were arrested following a short car chase and shootout with police at the Rampai Business Park in Setapak. The dramatic chase occurred on Thursday just as rush hour was winding down there. City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said police were monitoring the movements of a group of men for some time prior to the incident. "When we moved in to apprehend the group, they resisted. "The four men got into a car and attempted to flee the area," he said, adding that two police patrol cars gave chase. He said the aggressive driving of the suspects forced policemen to open fire on the car. "We managed to stop the car shortly after and arrested the four men," he said. SAC Ku said investigations revealed the men have been linked to multiple robberies in Klang Valley. "We also seized three cars believed to be used by the suspects," he said, adding that no one was hurt in the incident. |
| Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng wins Asia’s top literary prize Posted: 14 Mar 2013 08:09 AM PDT HONG KONG: Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize on Thursday for a novel dealing with the aftermath of Japan's wartime occupation of his country, becoming the first Malaysian to claim one of Asia's main literature prizes. Tan, born in 1972, beat out four other authors, including Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, for the $30,000 (RM93,000) prize in what was described as a "far-ranging and intricately layered novel". The Garden of Evening Mists, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012, tells the story of Yun Ling Teoh, the survivor of a Japanese prison camp who in her old age looks back at the early 1950s and her relationship with the mysterious creator of then-Malaya's only Japanese garden. "It's partly about the co-existence of cultural refinement and artistry, and terrible barbarity," chair of judges Maya Jaggi told reporters, noting that Japan's occupation of Asia remains a raw issue even today, decades after the war's end. "What this novel is doing is looking at that, but in such a subtle way, I think. It's not glib, it's about guilt and atonement and how love transforms people's conceptions of themselves and what they've done." Tan published his first novel, The Gift of Rain, in 2007. It also dealt with the Japanese occupation and its aftermath. He told Reuters in 2008 that he welcomed the growing recognition for Asian writers in the West but that talented Southeast Asian voices were sometimes overlooked. "Obviously, the interest in Asian writing helps somebody like me, but we sort of feel we're on the edge, the outskirts," he said. "A lot of the publishers have no real awareness of Southeast Asia." The prize, first awarded in 2007, is for works by Asian writers written in or translated into English, and is intended to widen exposure of Asian literature in the English-speaking world. This year's shortlist spanned Asia from Turkey to Japan and included Indian Jeet Thayil, who, like Tan, was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize The Man Asian Literary Prize said in October that it was seeking a new sponsor after the Man Group Plc withdrew its title sponsorship. An announcement is expected in April. - Reuters Related Stories: |
| Now its maximum of 12 subjects for SPM students Posted: 14 Mar 2013 06:43 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) candidates are allowed to take two additional subjects despite the implementation of a 10-subject limit since 2010, said Education director-general Tan Sri Abdul Ghafar Mahmud (pix), bringing the total to 12. SPM students are required to take six core subjects, namely Bahasa Melayu, English, History, Mathematics, Science, and Islamic Studies or Moral Education. The rest can be made up of elective subjects including Chinese Literature, Tamil Literature, Syariah Islamiah Studies, Al-Quran and Al-Sunnah Studies, Islamic Tasawwur, and Visual Art Studies. He was clarifying Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's statement that the 10-subject limit for SPM students remained unchanged. Bernama |
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