Johor
(2000 est. pop. of state 2.6 million; 2000 est. pop. of capital city 1 million). Johor (formerly known as Johore), a state in Malaysia, lies in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, bordered...
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Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains has forced more than 20,000 people to flee their homes in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, officials said Wednesday.Flooding was also reported in the ne...
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Movie pirates are spraying chemicals on their bootleg DVDs to confuse two U.S.-loaned dogs that helped Malaysian authorities sniff out nearly 1 million illegal discs, an official said Monday.The tw...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Malaysia prepared itself Monday to evacuate
and shelter up to 45,000 people as heavy rains in the northern region
threatened to bring a wave of floods w...
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday
slammed the government's move to open up the economy to foreigners,
saying it is akin to selling out the country.
After a lull ...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - A 24-hour deluge in Singapore and Malaysia's
southernmost state of Johor caused flooding, landslides and the
evacuation of 10,000 people to relief centr...
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Two black Labradors helped Malaysian authorities find nearly 1 million illegal DVDs and CDs on Tuesday in a building where optical disc pirates hid their wares.The sniffer dogs, named Lucky and Flo...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Malaysia's southern region has been hit by
one of its worst floods in recent years, forcing more than 26,000
people from four states to evacuate their h...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Six people have died and more than 60,000
have been evacuated from their homes following one of the worst
floods in a century to hit Malaysia's southern...
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Malaysia broke ground Thursday to mark the start of construction
of a 1.4 billion-ringgit oil terminal ($406 million) along the busy
Strait of Malacca -- a move that is widely seen to develop...
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Johor
26,000 evacuated from Malaysia floods
