Malaysia confirmed its second case of swine flu Saturday, a woman who recently returned from the United States. Ramlee Rahmat, the Health Ministry deputy director-general, said the woman had returned to Malaysia from the United States on Wednesday and was hospitalized Friday in northern Penang state. Tests confirmed early Saturday that she was infected with [...]

Director-general of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said Malaysia’s first influenza A(H1N1) case involved a 21-year-old male student who returned from the United States two days ago and started having fever, sore throat and body aches yesterday, and was admitted to Sungai Buloh Hospital at 6.45pm the same day. “He has been given [...]

Joblessness and poverty are a more potent source of tension between Muslims and wider European and U.S. society than religious differences, one of the first major studies of Muslim integration since the Sept. 11 terror attacks claimed on Thursday. Attacks by Islamic extremists on the United States and European capitals such as Madrid and London [...]

Men who were grossly overweight at the age of 18 had nearly 50 percent less chance of being married by their 30s and 40s, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday. The findings, which held true regardless of the men’s intellectual performance or socio-economic position, could suggest that women rank a man’s [...]

“May 13? What is that?” That was not the answer I was expecting when I first approached a table of Chinese students from a top private college having supper to ask them what they thought of the race riots, often touted by politicians as a black mark on race relations, that happened 40 years ago. [...]

The last time Lee Hung Poh walked unassisted was 40 years ago, before a bullet fired in the heat of Malaysia’s worst race riots sliced through her spine and shattered her future. Neither the 57 year old Lee nor her country has ever completely recovered. To be sure, Malaysia, a Southeast Asian nation of 27 [...]