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Malaysia suggests producing assault rifles with Asean partners

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JAKARTA: Malaysia has suggested producing the assault rifle Colt M4 Carbine with Indonesia and Thailand under the Asean Defence Industry Collaboration programme. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said yesterday that Malaysia made the proposal because a big company in the country had been given the licence to produce the rifle with 85 per cent local components. If Indonesia and Thailand agreed, a special purpose vehicle would be set up as a company to facilitate the collaboration, he told reporters here. The concept paper on collaboration in the defence industry prepared by Malaysia was accepted by the Asean Defence Ministers meeting which ended Thursday. Woman sentenced in May 2010 bank robbery
Chicago-A Crystal Lake woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday for robbing a Cary bank almost a year ago. Silk P. Lumpkins, 36, pleaded guilty to armed robbery in February. She entered Chase Bank, 300 Northwest Highway, on May 26 last year wearing a disguise and approached a teller at the counter, handing her a note demanding money. The teller then removed more than $5,800 from her drawer and handed the money to Lumpkins, at which time she placed it into a blue Chase deposit bag and left the bank. She was taken into custody June 2. She was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following her release from prison, and will serve the first six months of that supervised release in home confinement with electronic monitoring.

Malaysian police kill armed robbery suspects in shootout

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police killed six suspects and detained four female accomplices who were believed to be involved in a series of recent armed robberies in several states, news reports said Wednesday. Acting on a tip, a team of eight policemen raided a house on Tuesday night in the northern state of Kedah suspected of being used for illegal goldsmelting, state police chief Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said. "When the policemen barged into the house and announced themselves, six men between the age of 20 and 50, fired several shots at them, and in defence, the

police fired back, and the shots hit the six suspects," Syed was quoted as saying by the Star daily.
Syed said all the suspects were local that the four women in the house, aged between 21 and 28, were detained to assist police investigations. He said police also seized three luxury cars and equipment used in gold smelting

27 dead in Malaysia's worst road accident (

IPOH: Three Malaysians and 24 Thai nationals were killed in the country's worst road accident when an express bus they were travelling in overturned and crashed against a rocky slope along the Simpang Pulai-Kampung Raja road. In the 11.40am incident, about 15km from here, the bus which was carrying 37 people onboard and was coming down from Cameron Highlands, breached a concrete divider, somersaulted and crashed roofside into the rocky slope before halting on its side in a monsoon drain at the foot of the slope. Bodies of some of the dead victims were strewn all over the road with their body parts badly mutilated due to the impact.

The roof of the bus was partially torn from the body of the double-decker with the upper deck's floor pressing down on passengers seated on the lower deck. A rescue team consisting of about 100 personnel from various agencies took about three hours to retrieve the deceased victims and those who were seriously injured. Acting Perak police chief Datuk Zakaria Yusuf said 22 out of the 27 victims died at the spot while the rest died either on the way or after being admitted at the Ipoh Hospital.

The rest of the 10 victims are being monitored closely due to the serious injuries they had sustained during the impact.

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