Malaysia
# malaysia - Monday 25 March, 2013
VIDEO: Mark Webber gives Sebastian Vettel the middle finger
Does anyone still call it ‘the bird’?
# malaysia - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
13 endangered Borneo elephants found dead in one month
Police are investigating suspicions that the elephants were poisoned.
# malaysia - Sunday 11 November, 2012
‘Virgin Mary’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ attract Catholics to Malaysian hospital
Images of the sight have been posted across Facebook this morning.
# malaysia - Tuesday 30 October, 2012
Tensions rise over ad that reads “Indonesian maids now on sale!!”
Indonesia had previously banned women from travelling to Malaysia to work as maids due to poor pay and abuse.
# malaysia - Sunday 28 October, 2012
CIMB Classic: Watney’s 61 trumps Tiger in Malaysia
The 31-year-old’s 10-under-par round was enough for a thrilling one-shot win today.
# malaysia - Saturday 27 October, 2012
CIMB Classic: Van Pelt flirts with 59 as Woods implodes
The defending champion shares the lead with Robert Garrigus going into the final day.
# malaysia - Friday 19 October, 2012
Non-Chinese Asians are the fastest growing ethnic group in Ireland – CSO
The vast majority of people in Ireland remain “white Irish”, who at 3,821,995 people represents 85.8 per cent of the population.
# malaysia - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
Airline launches child-free zone on flights
Only those over the age of 12 may sit in first seven rows on AirAsia X planes from next February.
# malaysia - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
Man hospitalised after jumping from plane – before it took off
The man made a last-minute decision not to take a flight from Miri to Kuala Lumpur – and ended up in hospital.
# malaysia - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Olympic Village: Day One, wrap
A round-up of the weird, wonderful and woeful of the first day of medal-winning action at London 2012.
# malaysia - Thursday 26 July, 2012
Lightning blamed for Malaysian tanker explosion
One crew member died and four are missing after the explosion at a Petronas-operated methanol terminal.
# malaysia - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
Irish man killed in Malaysia road crash
The 48-year-old was killed when his motorcycle collided with a lorry on Monday morning.
# malaysia - Thursday 7 June, 2012
NAMA and Lloyds to sell iconic Battersea Power Station site for £400m
Chelsea FC has been beaten as preferred bidder for the iconic property and 15-hectare site.
# malaysia - Saturday 28 April, 2012
Photos: Tear gas used as 25,000 rally for reforms in Malaysia
The protest, one of the largest held in the country in the past decade, was held to demand an overhaul of biased electoral policies.
# malaysia - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
Revealed: the single country that’s hurting Ireland’s trade balance
There’s one single country from which we are importing more and more stuff – and it’s hurting our overall trade figures.
# malaysia - Tuesday 17 April, 2012
In the swing: Oosthuizen shows post-Masters mettle
The Masters runner-up has recovered impressively from his disappointment, writes Neil Cullen.
# malaysia - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Tsunami warnings lifted after two earthquakes off Indonesian coast
The earthquake was measured initially as 8.9 magnitude but has since been revised downwards to 8.6 as tsunami warnings were issued in over a dozen countries. Some have since been lifted.
The only way is up for embattled Felipe Massa
The Brazilian is optimistic that he can recover from his poor start to the Formula One season.
# malaysia - Monday 2 April, 2012
Passengers recall ‘party time’ on board stricken cruise ship after engine fire
Power was cut following electrical fire, leaving ship stranded at sea for 24 hours.
# malaysia - Sunday 1 April, 2012
Cruise ship heads for Malaysian port after being stranded for 24 hours
The Azamara Quest, carrying over 1,000 people on board, was adrift in waters off the southern Philippines for a full day after flames engulfed one of its engine rooms on Friday night
# malaysia - Saturday 17 March, 2012
Ireland’s hockey stars on brink of Olympic qualification
Only South Korea stand in the way of a trip to the biggest stage of all in London.
# malaysia - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
Not-so-happy Valentines: Malaysian police arrest 80 would-be lovers
Islamic authorities said Valentine’s Day is “synonymous with vice activities”.
# malaysia - Monday 13 February, 2012
Malaysia defends deportation of Saudi journalist over tweet
Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari has been deported over a potentially blasphemous tweet posted online last week.
# malaysia - Monday 9 January, 2012
Malaysia’s opposition leader cleared in sodomy trial
Anwar Ibrahim has been fighting the charges since 2008, claiming they were a set-up by the current government which is afraid of the challenge his leadership poses.
# malaysia - Wednesday 28 December, 2011
In pictures: the natural disasters of 2011
Last year saw a number of major natural disasters strike, including earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand and Turkey, volcanic eruptions in Chile and Iceland, and severe tropical storms in Asia.
# malaysia - Friday 23 December, 2011
Ireland to send emergency aid to flood-struck Philippines
The Christmas Day airlift will contain tents and blankets for thousands of families displaced by the disaster.
# malaysia - Monday 19 December, 2011
Revenue seize nine million cigarettes described as ‘sports socks’
The seizure, with an estimated street value of nearly €4 million, was made at a premises in Co Monaghan over the weekend.
# malaysia - Thursday 8 December, 2011
Pygmy elephant gores Australian tourist to death
Australian vet Jenna O’Grady Donley died from injuries she sustained in the attack while on holidays in Malaysia.
# malaysia - Tuesday 22 November, 2011
Football fans burn down ticket booths over sold out match
Disappointed fans wanting to see a final between Indonesia v Malaysia had a novel way of expressing their frustration…
# malaysia - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
Harrington hoping to weather Malaysian storm
Padraig Harrington will have to fend off a host of golf’s big names if he is to make it back-to-back wins at the Iskandar Johor Open.
# malaysia - Tuesday 13 September, 2011
Smoking Malaysian orangutan forced to kick the habit
Shirley is not being provided with any more cigarettes because “smoking is not normal behavior for orangutans,” according to one zoo official.
# malaysia - Monday 12 September, 2011
The 9 at 9: Monday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Blow to Norris’s re-entry hopes, Hurricane Katia hits Ireland (literally), and proof that Spongebob literally makes you stupid…
# malaysia - Wednesday 10 August, 2011
Support shown for young man robbed during riots
The mystery young man seen bleeding and then robbed in a YouTube video has been identified. Now, people are being asked to ‘do something nice’ for him.
# malaysia - Thursday 21 July, 2011
The world’s most expensive yacht – and the Malaysian who spent €3.4bn on it
Take THAT, Abramovich! This yacht, complete with sold gold and dinosaur bones(!), is worth ten times as much as yours.
# malaysia - Saturday 9 July, 2011
Police in Malaysia fire tear gas at protesters, arrest 1,667
Malaysia’s biggest political rally in four years has ended with hundreds of arrests, as protesters defied warnings to stay at home and electoral reform.
# malaysia - Monday 27 June, 2011
Malaysia’s national poet questioned over poetry recital
Police interviewed the 76-year-old poet for 90 minutes after he read his poem at the launch of a political rally.
# malaysia - Thursday 16 June, 2011
Peace deal brokered between feuding neighbours
Officials in Malaysia were forced to draw up a peace treaty to end a three-year row over barking dogs and loud music.
# malaysia - Tuesday 14 June, 2011
Ten million cigarettes worth €4.2m seized in Cork Port
The haul was discovered on a boat travelling from Malaysia. The cigarettes would have represented a loss to the Exchequer of €3.5m.
# malaysia - Thursday 2 June, 2011
Malaysian man apologises via 100 tweets in defamation settlement
Fahmi Fadzil reached a settlement with a publishing company after it was claimed he had defamed the company on Twitter. His punishment? 100 tweets.


























































